This week was the second “funnel week” at the Capitol and with mere weeks left in this year’s session, Iowa lawmakers are likely to take up competing AEA bills, proposed tax policy changes, and bills that address school safety.
Iowa’s tax receipts will come in slightly lower than expected this year, but revenues will hold steady in 2025 according to the latest projections from a state panel that estimates annual revenue.
The second legislative deadline of the 2024 session took out a number of bills of significant potential impact
Starting Monday, a free water taxi will cross the river there at certain times of the day for seven days a week until the bridge is repaired and reopened to traffic, the Iowa Department of Transportation announced Friday.
Deadline stops some bills, reveals Iowa Republicans' varied strategies
Lawmakers seek data on what unemployment tax cut could mean
The crop fertilizer killed fish and might have affected the river all the way to the Missouri border.
The bills were introduced by House Republicans in the wake of January’s fatal shooting at Perry High School.
Also: Democrats decry jobless aid cuts as Perry meatpacking plant closure looms.
Republican leaders in the Iowa House and Senate were unable to find agreement on their separate immigration policy proposals
GOP Sen. Brad Zaun said he stopped the bill, which was approved by House Republicans, over concerns it would threaten the legality of in vitro fertilization
A bill that would limit the authority of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to purchase land for public use was shelved Wednesday ahead of a key legislative deadline.
The Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing -- which inspects nursing homes -- is asserting that emails that were completed, sent and received are preliminary “draft” documents that aren’t subject to disclosure under Iowa’s open records law.
Advocates for Social Justice members are asking for the city of Cedar Rapids to lobby against a bill that would dismantle citizen review boards that provide oversight of local law enforcement like the one Cedar Rapids created in 2021.
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