Iowa State Legislature: New BillsASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated November 30, 2023 |Infoplease Staff Map of Iowa Iowa, or the Hawkeye State, is a dynamic and historically significant state in the heart of the United States. Iowa offers a wonderful experience with its strong agricultural sector, cities, landscapes, and community. Renowned as the Corn...
What is now Iowa State University was originally set up by the state legislature as an agricultural college and model farm in 1858. Land was purchased for close to $5,400 the following year. The farmhouse building (now a museum that is said to be haunted) was completed in 1861. ...
Wade. In Iowa, the Republican-led House and Senate voted last year to adopt a state constitutional amendment that says abortion is not a right guaranteed by the Iowa Constitution.The measure must be approved using the same language in the next General Assembly, in 2023 or 2024 and then be ...
1. Six years ago, the Republican-controlled Legislature removed Iowa from the federal family planning network and set up a state version that would not allow funding to reach clinics that provide abortions. 2. Over the past two years, the Legislature has tried to put money toward a program ...
A bill pending in the Iowa legislature to help control illegal immigration by requiring employers to use the E-Verify system has overwhelming support from the state’s voters. A new telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports andNumbersUSAfinds that 73% of Likely Iowa Voters believe the...
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formation of laws concerning trapping, hunting and fishing by the Iowa Legislature and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. ITA was involved in the REAP Coalition and it's passing, and we helped to save the Fish & Wildlife Trust Fund from being spent to balance the state budget problems...
Despite widespread support for the legislation, state lawmakers have failed to pass a ban on motorist handheld use of cellphones. From 2014 to 2023, 78 people in Iowa were killed by distracted drivers using a cellphone or other handheld device.
— Amanda Rooker KCCI (@ARookerKCCI)July 12, 2023 Reynolds ordered the rare session after the state Supreme Courtdeclined in June to reinstate a practically identical lawthat she signed in 2018. "The Iowa Supreme Court questioned whether this legislature would pass the same law they did in 20...