Iowa’s legislative session concluded with a focus on special education reforms, tax cuts, and social issues. Key highlights include:
– Revised special education funding, giving schools more flexibility.
– Increased minimum salaries for teachers.
– Restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public universities.
– Expanded maternity leave for low-income Medicaid mothers.
– Enactment of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
– Accelerated income tax cuts and constitutional amendments related to taxation.
– Failure of bills related to gender identity, pesticide liability, and a constitutional amendment on abortion rights.