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District 72 Update

Newsletter for January 16, 2020The 2020 session of the Iowa General Assembly has begun in earnest. As always, the first week of a session is marked by ceremony and speeches, along with the day to day work of drafting and filing bills.On Monday the House elected our new leadership. Rep. Pat ...

Fisher Previews 2020 Iowa Legislative Session

District 72 NewsletterThe 2020 session began on Monday, January 13. This is the second year of the 88th General Assembly in Iowa.The Iowa House will be electing new leadership this coming session. Speaker Select Pat Grassley will officially be elected Speaker on the first day of session and ...

Edler to seek second Iowa Senate term

DES MOINES Senator Jeff Edler, R-State Center, has announced last week he will seek a second term in the Iowa Senate for District 36.Currently, Senator Edler serves as the chair of the Local Government Committee and the vice chair of the Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee. ...

District 72 Update: Robocalls

When we visit with constituents, some of the most common and persistent consumer complaints are about those irritating and sometimes frightening robocalls that we're all bombarded with day and night.Robocalls are recorded messages from scam artists to unsuspecting consumers. The scammers often ...

Senator Kapucian is retiring

DES MOINES Senator Tim Kapucian, R-Keystone, announced he will not be seeking reelection to the Iowa Senate next year after serving for three terms. He was first elected in 2008."At the end of 2020, I will have served 12 years in the Iowa Senate. Over the years I have represented Iowans from ...

Fisher releases new law information

DES MOINES- State Rep. Dean Fisher (R-Montour) released information on a few notable bills that were passed during the legislative session which have gone into effect on July 1, 2019."We had a productive session and passed a number of new laws that will improve education, increase access to ...

We have adjourned, Sine Die, which means “without a time certain”

Newsletter for Thursday, April 27, 2019Thursday, we dealt with the final passage of House File 546, the Secure an Advanced Vision for Education (SAVE) bill that extends this 1% sales tax for school infrastructure from 2029 to 2051 among other changes. The bill as passed by the House earlier set ...

District 72 Update

Newsletter for Thursday, April 25, 2019By the time you read this we may well not only be done with week 15, but done for the entire session. We are working hard to finish by Saturday, April 27. This was an intense weekof debate with more to come after I submit this newsletter. We completed ...

Cornfields, Common Sense and Community

In the LegislatureWe are fourteen weeks into the legislative session, leaving us with only two weeks until the scheduled end of session. This deadline prompted discussion on a number of substantive topics this week and many hours debating on the Senate floor.On Tuesday the Senate passed a bill ...