Iowa House OKs Branstad school merger plan
Gov. Branstad backed measure to push district consolidation with incentives and tax relief. The bill would lower the uniform levy from 5.40 to 5 per 1,000 for two years and extend extra funds for sharing programs and administrator sharing. It also adds a 0.05 percent per pupil funding for sharing up to 15 pupils. Debate focused on administrative cost cuts for districts and AEAs, with amendments to require reductions and concerns about staffing impacts.
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Judy Daubenmier
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Terry Branstad
Iowa House
Senate
Iowa
Stromer
Mark Haverland
Donkeny
Debate set on liquor monopoly in Iowa House
A bill to end state retail liquor sales moves to a House subcommittee. Democratic reps David Tabor and Ed Parker propose auctioning five year private licenses with wholesale liquor sales to incumbents, enabling retailers to set prices and ads while revenue neutral to the state.
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Des Moines
David Tabor
Baldwin
Ed Parker
Mingo
House
Ways and Means Committee
Tabor
Parker
Parker and Tabor
Des Moines AG Opinion Says Lobby Tax Unconstitutional Parts
An Iowa attorney general opinion finds that a section of the new law extending sales tax to lobbyists is unconstitutional. It supports taxing lobbyists who work as independent contractors but says taxing full time salaried lobbyists violates the constitution since salaries of other workers are not taxed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Senate debates smoking limits bill and fiscal note
Iowa Senate committee debated a year-old smoking restriction bill amid banter over fines for not smoking and occupying smoker areas. An amendment to require inspection for enforcement could push the bill to Appropriations. a separate $25 fine proposal faced resistance and the measure may return to the House.
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Senate
Joe Welsh
D-Dubuque
Appropriations Committee
Welsh
Coleman
Senate votes to waive park fees in home counties
Des Moines Iowa parks face reduced revenue as the Senate approved removing the permit requirement for parks in a voter’s home county cutting projected income from user fees. The bill shifts funds and allows reduced rate add ons while igniting constitutional concerns about exemptions. The measure, passed 33 to 15, moves to the House.
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Ken Sullivan
Des Moines
Iowa
Senate
Hurley Hall
D-Marion
Conference committee to handle reorganization bill in Des Moines
Lawmakers move the state government reorganization bill to a House Senate conference committee after overnight stalls as both chambers refuse to budge on differences. The panel includes Sen Carr Dieleman Bruner Nystrom Drake and Reps Lloyd-Jones Halvorson Hammond Hanson Swearingen. A second item would tax attorney earnings from tort cases to fund indigent civil programs, with a Son of Sam style prohibition cited. A separate House panel adds a Buy Iowa provision to a Senate vehicle purchase bill, extending local government preference for Iowa made products.
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Des Moines
Senate
House
Bob Carr
D Dubuque
Bill Dieleman
D-Pella
Charles Bruner
D-Ames
Jack Nystrom
R-Boone
Richard Drake
Muscatine
Jean Lloyd- Jones
D-Iown City
Rod Halvorson
D-Fort Dodge
Johnie Hammond
Dames
Darrell Hanson
R-Manchester
George Swearingen
Rsigourney
Iowa
Iowa House
Phil Brammer
Cedar Rapids
House Judiciary Committee
Brammer
State General Fund
House Transportation Committee
North America
House tightens pigeon killing bill in Iowa
The House Natural Resources Committee trimmed a Senate bill to ban open season and limit take of pigeons. The panel approved a limited season from November 1 to March 1 and barred poisons, permitting repellents only with trapping allowed under state oversight.
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Dennis Black
D-Newton
Iowa Commerce Commission
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