High-profile Republican priorities are advancing after the Iowa Legislature's first "funnel" deadline on Friday, while others ...

A legislative proposal aimed at upping Iowa-resident enrollment in the UI Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry could deprive ...

Rep. Aime Wichtendahl, Iowa's first out trans lawmaker, said it was "devastating" to see lawmakers pass a bill taking away ...

Iowa House has unanimously passed the “Public Expression Protection Act” to help Iowans facing lawsuits that backers of the ...

The Iowa Senate sent three bills to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk Wednesday, including a measure that would prohibit open ...

State lawmakers faced their first major deadline of the 2025 legislative session this week. Here are some major bills that ...

The bipartisan backed legislation known as The Patient’s Right to Save Act requires health providers to disclose the ...

Civil rights are not reversible. Once the ratchet of rights has been opened, they cannot tighten. This was the argument of Martin Luther King, Jr, who stated numerous times, including after the famous ...

Iowa Republican lawmakers voted Thursday to pass a bill removing gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act — setting up the state to potentially be the first in the nation to ...

It will take effect July 1. Senate File 418 removes gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act, the ...

Iowa is the first state to repeal civil rights protections for transgender people from state code and advocates for the ...

Iowa on Friday became the first state to strip ... identity were not originally included in the state’s Civil Rights Act of 1965. Those protections were added in 2007 with bipartisan support.