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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 2017
Page
1
Gov. Terry Branstad signs House File 517 a wide ranging gun rights bill praised by supporters at a Des Moines ceremony. The measure includes a stand your ground provision and allows children under 14 to handle pistols or revolvers under adult supervision.
Vanessa Miller reports state lawmakers trimmed funding for public infrastructure delaying at least two Iowa State University projects. The House budget committee postponed $3 million for ISU’s Advanced Teaching and Research Building and $9 million for the Student Innovation Center as state support shifts.
The Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa would see about 1.2 million dollars restored after a House Appropriations Committee amendment. Representative Ashley Hinson said the initial zeroing of the line item caused concern, as GOP budget plans floated cutting state funding.
Iowa lawmakers erase the state mandated summer reading program for struggling third graders and remove the third grade retention requirement from the 2018 education budget. Sen Tim Kraayenbrink says the program was an unfunded mandate with mixed trial results, while acknowledging gains in reading instruction identified by Deborah Reed.
Senate Republicans advocate reducing Iowa’s nine tax brackets to three, phasing out federal tax deductibility to cut rates and deliver at least 500 million in taxpayer relief by 2022. Feenstra says delay to 2018 is likely due to federal changes and a tight budget. Top rate would drop from 8.98 to 5.65 percent, with scaled rates for lower incomes.
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