House Republicans also plan to introduce bills to reduce property taxes using the state's taxpayer relief fund.

Iowa lawmakers this week hit their first ‘funnel’ deadline, which eliminated from further consideration any bills that did not receive a prescribed level of support.

House Speaker Pat Grassley says he and other Republicans in the Iowa House are standing firm on their plan to provide more money to K-12 schools than Governor Reynolds and Senate Republicans propose.

Iowa will send letters showing a more than 11% property tax rate increase for Polk County residents — a figure county officials say is inaccurate.

House Speaker Pat Grassley says “popular policies” the legislature has recently passed are in legal jeopardy because “gender identity” is included in the Iowa Civil Rights Code. In a written statement,

Action sent a letter, signed by hundreds of Iowans, to Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver and Speaker of the Hous

If the bill is signed into law, Iowa would become the first U.S. state to roll back protections for a recognized class under its civil rights statutes.

The Iowa Senate and House debated for several hours before passing the legislation overwhelmingly along party lines. The governor is expected to sign the bill.

Iowans would be free to discriminate based on "gender identity", marking the first time a state has removed protections from any group of people.

Civil rights protections for transgender Iowans would be removed from state law under a bill introduced Thursday by Republicans on the Iowa House Judiciary Committee.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Several protesters were arrested Monday at the Iowa state Capitol, where shouts of “trans rights are human rights” reverberated throughout the building as Republican lawmakers advanced a bill that would strip the state civil rights code of protections based on gender identity.

Last week, lawmakers pushed ahead with several policy proposals and Gov. Kim Reynolds unveiled her plans for improving health care access.