Iowa Legislature

A bill passed in the Iowa House authorizes legal gun owners to keep firearms in their cars outside public schools, public universities and community colleges, and corrections facilities.

A House bill that would have restricted the use of eminent domain for carbon capture pipelines appeared to be dead for the year Thursday after the Iowa Senate failed to advance it ahead of a legislative deadline.

Gov. Kim Reynolds has three major bills awaiting her signature after Republican lawmakers sent more priorities to her desk last week.

An estimated 2,000 Iowans rallied outside the Statehouse Sunday in support of LGBTQ rights and against several anti-LGBTQ bills that have been moving forward in the legislature.

Twenty-two Republican representatives sponsored the bill that would require owners of 90% of the land in a carbon pipeline’s path to agree to the pipeline before eminent domain could be used to access land from unwilling owners.

Republicans have expanded their majorities in the Iowa House of Representatives and the Iowa Senate, giving them even more power to pass GOP priorities when lawmakers return to the Statehouse in January.

Iowa’s 2022 legislative session ended shortly after midnight Wednesday morning, five weeks after the target date for adjournment.

The Iowa Legislature passed Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal Tuesday to require many Iowa gas stations to sell fuel with higher blends of ethanol.

Landowners fear private companies will use eminent domain to construct carbon capture pipelines on their land.

The Iowa Legislature voted Thursday to approve the second set of proposed political boundaries for the state's congressional and legislative districts,…