Gasohol tax hike backed by House committee in Iowa
The House Ways and Means Committee recommended a 2 cent per gallon gasohol tax increase on July 1 and 1 cent yearly raises for three years, lifting gasohol taxes to 13 cents by 1986. The panel rejected a gasohol in every tank mandate and debated federal tax breaks and ethanol levels amid road funding concerns.
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Uzelle Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
House
Ways and Means
Senate
Dale Cochran
Eagle Grove
Ray Lageschulte
R Waverly
Iowa
Lowell Norland
D-Kensett
Iowa on track for lowest traffic deaths since 1958
Des Moines reports 15 highway deaths in March, slowing a trend of record lows. Gus Horn of the Iowa Department of Public Safety cites 13 in February and 18 in January as the smallest totals for those months since records began in 1938, with optimism to beat 612 fatalities in the current year though summer remains a danger.
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UPI
Iowa
Gus Horn
Horn
van Wert
March
Senate panel approves victim compensation plan in Iowa
The Iowa Senate Judiciary Committee backed a bill to pay victims of violent crime up to 5000 dollars from state funds once funding is provided. Sponsors called it a conservative step, but ineligible if victims provoked the crime or if the attacker is a household member or close relative without a conviction.
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Des Moines
Senate Judiciary Committee
Gary Baugher
R-Ankeny
Baugher
Panel curbs bank expansions in Iowa Senate action
Iowa Senate Commerce Committee defeated a proposal to liberalize the state bank holding law on deposits. The 8 percent cap would have applied to all deposits, potentially restricting Hawkeye Bancorporation and other large holds from expanding beyond current holdings.
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Senate Commerce Committee
Hawkeye
Northwest
Brenton
United Central
Banks of Iowa
Hawkeye Bancorporation
Iowa
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