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Iowa's three public universities will see no increase in general education appropriations from the state in the upcoming budget year — and targeted bumps in special purpose funds — despite the ...
Iowa Sen. Lynn Evans says he is considering a run for Congress in the state's fourth district.
Kim Reynolds for her expected signature. The Iowa Senate on Wednesday passed House File 1049, a budget bill that appropriates $2.47 billion to the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, ...
But that pace did not last: 147 bills were passed by the Iowa Legislature in 2025, the fewest since the pandemic-interrupted ...
The Iowa Legislature during the recently concluded legislative session passed a bill that would regulate hazardous liquid pipelines and other infrastructure and would restrict the use of eminent ...
Crespo has represented northwest Cook County in the House since 2007 and was chair of the House Appropriations-General Services Committee unti… Rob Sand, an attorney and former prosecutor in the Iowa ...
The Iowa Legislature adjourned Thursday at 6:01 a.m. in the Senate and 6:31 a.m. in the House, finishing the 2025 legislative session with many priorities from the majority party met ...
The Iowa Legislature passed a bill overnight before the close of the legislative session that 911 emergency dispatchers are ...
An Iowa lawmaker is pleased legislation that addresses rural healthcare concerns passed this session. Representative Shannon Latham tells Brownfield pharmacy benefit management reform was one of her ...
"This bill really just hits us with a ton of bricks," said AJ Mumm, director of Polk County Emergency Management.
After hours of heated debate, the Iowa Senate passed a bill to protect landowners from carbon pipelines that might seek to condemn private property through eminent domain. Eminent domain is a ...
Enacted as Iowa Code Section 34A.12, the law grants the Iowa 911 Program authority to charge local 911 service boards for unspecified “reasonable costs” related to delivering emergency calls. Critics ...