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A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest for Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2020:
Legislation recognizing out-of-state licenses for several occupations and limiting the reasons for disqualifying a person from receiving a pro…
A trio of abortion-related bills were approved on party-line votes in the Republican-controlled House Human Resources Committee on Tuesday, ma…
A state senator wants to spare Iowans the agony of search engines digging up past indiscretions that they would rather forget or at least keep…
The subcommittee heard from pharmacy owners around Iowa who said they will not survive if PBMs are allowed to continue current practices, incl…
"I was hopeful that we covered so many subcommittees last week that this would be a more-subdued funnel week than usual. Turns out I was compl…
“We are not just dollars signs. We are real people. A real community,” Candi Evans of Golf View Mobile Home Park at North Liberty told the sub…
A 22-year employee of the Iowa Department of Transportation will serve as the agency’s director.
DES MOINES — Mark Smith was chosen Saturday to lead the Iowa Democrats at a time of significant turmoil for the party.
Iowa lags behind other states when it comes to aiding childhood victims of sexual abuse by adults — oftentimes family members, teachers, clerg…
"I interviewed Price, the outgoing Iowa Democratic Party chairman, this past week after he announced his intention to resign."
Two bills that opponents called attacks on women’s right to an abortion were moved forward in the Iowa House on Thursday by lawmakers who said…
GOP says the action is aimed at ‘activist’ judges; Dems says it’s an assault on women.
Critics said the proposal would give individuals and businesses license to discriminate while using their religion as a legal shield.
Lawmakers were told that several people lost interest in the job when they learned of the salary range — $63,690 to $97,460.
DES MOINES — It appears the Iowa Senate on Thursday will debate a proposed constitutional amendment to specify there is no fundamental right i…
Gov. Kim Reynolds is taking her top legislative priority on the road in hopes of convincing Iowans of her plan to fund water quality projects,…
When it comes to protections for manufactured housing park tenants, Iowa lawmakers have picked up where they left off last year, and then some.
Creepy or criminal? A House subcommittee wrestled — briefly — with that question Wednesday when considering a bill motivated by a 40-year flig…
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Officials with the state Department of Natural Resources say Iowa hunters reported harvesting nearly 94,000 deer during Iowa’s 2019-20 hunting…
Members of the House Human Resources Committee voted 11-10 to compel a Board of Regents policy requiring at least 75 percent of students accep…
The bill would empower law enforcement officers to ask a court to temporarily block a person’s access to guns if there is evidence they pose a…
House members voted 52-48 Tuesday to approve a 2.5 percent increase that matches the level requested by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
A proposal to expand the four-decade-old bottle bill and double the handling fee on redeemed bottles and cans got mixed reviews in a Senate Co…
A bill calling for college student-athletes to have control of their names, images and likenesses advanced to the Senate Education Committee o…
A requirement that bicyclists have front and back lights on their bikes and wear reflective clothing will move to the full House Transportatio…
