Legislative Briefs

A group of Black Iowa lawmakers is expanding their legislative caucus to also include other racial minorities.

Undergraduate students at the state’s public universities would have fixed tuition rates under a proposal advanced by a Senate subcommittee.

Iowa colleges would pay a tax on endowments larger than $250 million under a bill advanced by a House subcommittee.

A bill that would direct state health officials to make ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine available without a doctor's prescription has made it through a House subcommittee.

The Iowa Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s public universities, would no longer have a voting student member under a bill advanced by a House subcommittee on Wednesday.

A new bill advanced by a House subcommittee would set a quota for the number of Iowans the University of Iowa’s nursing program must accept. Under the proposal, at least 80% of people accepted would have to be graduates of high schools in Iowa.

A House subcommittee advanced a bill that would direct the board overseeing the state’s universities to look into a performance-based funding model.

The state would no longer have to maintain a historical research center in Iowa City under a bill advanced Tuesday by Republicans on a Senate panel.

Iowa students could soon enroll in bachelor's degree programs at community colleges under a proposal advanced by a House subcommittee.

A House subcommittee is advancing a proposal that would require students at the state’s public universities to take courses on both American history and government.