Legislation to curb teen driving stalls in Iowa Senate
Des Moines legislative efforts to restrict teen drivers face doubt about enacted passage this session. Senate File 2336 would limit first six months passengers for drivers under 18 with intermediate licenses and require 20 hours of supervised driving. House and Senate supporters acknowledge hurdles and will revisit next year while debates on bans on cell phone use linger.
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Statewide SILO plan clears House committee
Iowa House Ways and Means approves converting 99 county SILO school tax to a statewide 6 percent rate with a sunset to 5 percent in 2030. The bill adds anti-scooping language and keeps vehicle use tax at 5 percent while raising out-of-state vendor tax to 6 percent.
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Optical-scan voting bill heads to governor for paper trail
Iowa moves to require optical-scan voting with paper trail across all 99 counties by November. The House approved 91-6 funding for $4.9 million from the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund to outfit counties and include vendor incentives, enabling a single standard for vote verification statewide.
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Capitol Digest: Eastern Iowa legislative highlights
A summary of Iowa action on unions indoor smoking restrictions state waste and recycling at the Capitol. Sen Mark Zieman objects to expanding bargaining scope while Rep Donovan Olson leads a push to cut waste through recycling. A Sioux City school board member was escorted from the House floor after lacking a badge. The Senate panel backs universal health care funding for 48000 Iowa children by 2011.
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