2025 Legislative Session

The Iowa Senate passed a bill setting new standards for pharmacy benefit managers that lawmakers said will help keep rural pharmacies in business and lower the cost of prescription drugs.

Senate File 146 would prohibit the use of automated bots to purchase online tickets at concerts and sporting events.

As Iowa lawmakers are advancing a bill to establish a state psilocybin program, we take a look at how psychedelic-assisted therapy works and the latest research.

The 2025 legislative session is scheduled to end, but there's still work to be done. IPR reporters Katarina Sostaric and Meghan McKinney go over what's going on in the Iowa Legislature.

The Iowa Board of Regents made a handful of policy changes for its universities ahead of statehouse action this week.

The bill, proposed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and amended by lawmakers, would use $16 million of existing child care funding for new partnerships that provide a full day of care to 4-year-olds in preschool, among several other changes.

Strained budgets, tax reform and the trickle down from changing federal policy are a few of the themes surrounding Midwestern state legislatures this year.

Lawmakers sent several bills to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk during the week ending in April 19. IPR reporters Katarina Sostaric and Meghan McKinney review the latest in Iowa politics.

Public, private and charter schools in Iowa would be required to show fetal development videos to students starting in fifth grade under a bill passed Thursday by Republicans in the Iowa House.

A proposed constitutional amendment aimed at restoring the option for some child crime victims to testify remotely in a trial passed the Iowa House Thursday, completing the first major step toward amending the Iowa Constitution.