2022 Legislative Session

A new lawsuit filed by Johnson County OB/GYNs who were at the center of a 2022 exceptional medical malpractice case have filed a lawsuit claiming their insurance company put its own financial interests above its clients' and used the case to influence Iowa politicians to pass tort reform.

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services said it is reopening the search for an administrator to oversee a new state program of crisis pregnancy centers that support childbirth over abortion.

For two years, federal funds have been available for states to extend postpartum health care from two months to a full year for moms on Medicaid. The policy is popular across the Midwest, with Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska all adopting an extension. Iowa remains hesitant.

New laws go into effect July 1, changing who can legally search through a person's trash and loosening child care regulations. Later, IPR's Dennis Reese finds relics from the Cold War in the Iowa City studio basement.

Iowa just became the final state in the nation to criminalize elder abuse.

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Thursday that will relax some staffing regulations for Iowa child care centers.

Governor signs a bill into law that will have a sweeping impact on Iowa's unemployment benefits system.

The new law will apply criminal penalties to a range of abuse committed against Iowans age 60 or older.

Four Republican state lawmakers lost their primary races Tuesday night after Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds endorsed their opponents. All four incumbents opposed the governor’s bill to create state-funded scholarships for private school expenses.

School vouchers, bottle recycling, casino moratorium: a panel of Iowa journalists weighs in on the biggest bills to pass and fail this year in the Iowa Legislature.