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Statehouse reporters share which bills are still alive this session

River to River, hosted by Ben Kieffer

Iowa lawmakers just passed their first funnel deadline of the 2024 legislative session.

On this episode of River to River, IPR's Grant Gerlock is joined by IPR's Katarina Sostaric and fellow journalists Stephen Gruber-Miller and Kathie Obradovich to discuss which bills are still in consideration by the Iowa House and Senate.

Those bills include proposals to overhaul the state's Area Education Agencies, legislation affecting undocumented immigrants, new restrictions on absentee ballots, Governor Kim Reynolds' bill to define "man" and "woman" based on a person's sex at birth, and differing proposals to cut the number of Iowa boards and commissions.

Guests:

  • Katarina Sostaric, IPR state government reporter
  • Stephen Gruber-Miller, statehouse reporter, Des Moines Register
  • Kathie Obradovich, editor, Iowa Capital Dispatch
Grant Gerlock is a reporter covering Des Moines and central Iowa
Samantha McIntosh is a talk show producer at Iowa Public Radio. Prior to IPR, Samantha worked as a reporter for radio stations in southeast and west central Iowa under M&H Broadcasting, and before that she was a weekend music host for GO 96.3 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.