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Bleeding Heartland Monday, Mar 8 2021 Iowa would be exempt from one part of a wide-ranging election reform bill the U.S. House approved on March 3 on a mostly party-line 220 to 210 vote. This document explains each section of H.R.1, also known as the For the People Act. In her explainer for Vox, Ella Nilsen provided bullet points on the main provisions, which fall into three broad categories: “expanding voting rights, implementing campaign finance reform, and beefing up ethics laws for member...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Week four brought extensive committee work in both chambers Monday-Wednesday, with a slower day on Thursday due to the snow in Des Moines and across the state, though virtual meetings allowed the Senate to continue to conduct business, despite the snowstorm. With numerous bills through committee, we will likely see more floor action in the coming weeks. Over 100 study bills were introduced this week alone, and more are expected as ind...

Iowa Executive Branch Update Governor Reynolds delivered the Condition of the State speech on Tuesday, January 12, at 6:00 p.m., breaking with the normal tradition of a morning joint convention. Governor Reynolds opened by addressing the challenges of 2020 - COVID-19, civil unrest, a drought, a derecho and she commended Iowans and their response to the challenges of 2020. Highlights: Increasing spending by 3.7% in FY2022 to $8.079 billion and by 2.3% in FY2023 to $8.275 billion (FY2022 increa...

Radio Iowa You are here: Home Governor’s budget director to retire January 31st Dave Roederer The man who has been state budget director for the past decade is retiring after a 38-year career in state government. Dave Roederer was part of former Governor Terry Branstad’s staff in the last century before Branstad’s return in 2011, when Roederer was named director of the Department of Management. Governor Kim Reynolds kept him in that role when she became the state’s chief executive in 20...

IPR file The Revenue Estimating Conference predicted Iowa’s revenue will grow 3.7 percent in the next fiscal year. Iowa’s revenue forecasters estimated Friday that Gov. Kim Reynolds will have an additional $296 million to craft a state budget proposal for fiscal year 2022 that starts in July. The Revenue Estimating Conference predicted Iowa’s revenue will grow 3.7 percent in the next fiscal year compared to the current fiscal year, to a total of $8.26 billion. But the panel members said t...