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Lawmakers in the Iowa House were sworn in for the 91st General Assembly at the Iowa State Capitol Jan. 13, 2025. (Photo by Robin Opsahl\/Iowa Capital Dispatch)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

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The Iowa Legislature convened for the 2025 legislative session Monday with a new slate of legislators and goals to pass property tax and school cell phone use restrictions, among other proposals.<\/p>\r\n

With their new, larger majorities, Iowa legislative leaders said they are aiming to stay the course they\u2019ve been on since 2017, when Republicans first took trifecta control. House Speaker Pat Grassley said that for years, Iowans have asked for action on lowering costs, changes to the state\u2019s education system and a \u201creturn to common sense on immigration and social issues\u201d \u2013 and that Republican lawmakers listened and passed measures on these topics.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cIt seems many in the media or on the other side of the aisle refuse to believe that it is anyone other than the very far right who has been begging for action on these issues,\u201d Grassley said. \u201cBut \u2026 we stayed the course. And today, we return for the 2025 legislative session with an even greater majority of 67 seats \u2013 the largest majority in history, since the Iowa House went to 100 seats in 1971.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Grassley said many of the top issues in this session will be continuations of work started in previous sessions, like further limitations on property taxes. He asked for collaboration with local governments and advocates on how to best approach property tax costs.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cFor anyone who is interested in delivering real solutions and not just trying to kill everyone else\u2019s ideas \u2013 I\u2019m all ears,\u201d Grassley said. \u201cWe will do our due diligence and consider each idea. As we do so, I will encourage this chamber to prioritize certainty for the taxpayers over certainty for the taxing entities.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Whitver thanks Iowans for prayers<\/h4>\r\n
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Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver, center, receives a standing ovation after thanking Iowans for their support as he deals with treatment for a brain tumor. He gave his remarks on the opening day of the legislative session Jan. 13, 2025. (Photo by Kathie Obradovich\/Iowa Capital Dispatch)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n
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In the Senate, lawmakers and visitors stood to applaud Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver, R-Grimes, who opened his brief remarks by thanking Iowans who reached out with encouragement and prayers as he continues to battle a brain tumor<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe news recently has been encouraging: The tumor is getting smaller. I still have a long way to go before the tumor is behind me, but I will continue to battle it with everything I have,\u201d Whitver said.<\/p>\r\n

Whitver and Senate President Amy Sinclair both focused remarks on past accomplishments but offered a few words about their agenda for the future.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cWe will address the rising cost of living, continue cutting taxes, build new career opportunities, and ensure we all have a safe community to call home,\u201d Whitver said.<\/p>\r\n

Property tax relief was the most specific item cited by Sinclair, although she also emphasized past legislation such as restrictions on transgender Iowans\u2019 use of bathrooms and participation in school sports, reducing liability by various industries, and enforcing immigration laws.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cIt\u2019s common sense to let people choose how best to invest in themselves, and I look forward to continue to work on reducing property taxes to Iowans to continue their investments this session,\u201d she said.<\/p>\r\n

Sinclair said later Monday on Iowa Public Radio that she expects senators to focus on limiting property tax growth, not making cuts to local government revenues. \u201cThere are no property tax cuts that are even necessarily being proposed. \u2026 It\u2019s a growth limiter that we\u2019re talking about. We just don\u2019t think that the money being taken from Iowans just to support those sheriffs, those deputies, the local police forces, the fire departments, the first responders, we just don\u2019t think that probably should exceed the growth of the state as a whole, or the growth of inflation.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Focus on higher education continues<\/h4>\r\n

Iowa lawmakers are also preparing to tackle education policy \u2013 including through a new committee in the Iowa House. The higher education committee, a separate entity from the education committee that has typically handled issues related to Iowa\u2019s regents universities and other post-secondary education institutions, will kick off this session.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Ahead of 2025, Grassley and the committee\u2019s chair Rep. Taylor Collins, R-Mediapolis, have said the committee was formed to review Iowa\u2019s higher education system and ensure they are operating efficiently and focused on programs to meet the state\u2019s workforce needs. Lawmakers have already eliminated funding for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) offices,<\/a> but discussion of DEI programs and other issues related to \u201cpolitical agendas\u201d at colleges and universities are expected to come up at the committee.<\/p>\r\n

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House Speaker Pat Grassley delivered his opening remarks for the 2025 legislative session Jan. 13, 2025. (Photo by Robin Opsahl\/Iowa Capital Dispatch)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n
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Grassley said there will also be a large focus on the state\u2019s K-12 education system working through existing education committee. He highlighted Gov. Kim Reynolds\u2019 proposal requiring schools set policies on cell phone use in schools as one of the issues lawmakers plan to address in 2025.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cWe know the dangers of smart phones and social media,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s time to take action. This can include limiting cell phone use during instructional time and putting parents in the driver\u2019s seat of their kid\u2019s social media accounts.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Grassley also said he was excited to see the work done by the Federal and Other Funds Appropriations Subcommittee. As President-elect Donald Trump has said he will allow states more flexibility in how they spend allocated federal funds, Grassley said the new subcommittee will be a way for Iowa to \u201cbe one of the leaders in how best to utilize that flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

\u201cInstead of federal programs treating Iowa the same as states like California, my hope is we will be able to have more flexibility to spend federal funds in the way that best fits Iowans,\u201d Grassley said.<\/p>\r\n

While Republicans said they want to continue on the path laid out in previous sessions, Democrats in both chambers called for the Legislature to consider proposals that will lower costs of living.<\/p>\r\n

Senate Democratic Leader Janice Weiner of Iowa City, who is new to the position, offered a list of proposals for the year, including making child care more accessible to working parents, addressing wage theft and misclassification of workers, rolling back restrictions passed in 2022 on unemployment benefits and some of the changes approved last year to Area Education Agencies. AEAs provide special education and other services to public schools, and Weiner said the new system \u201cstraps\u201d small and rural school districts.<\/p>\r\n

House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst also called for action to lower child care, health care and housing costs during the session, saying these should be priorities over divisive issues this session.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cWe have a choice \u2026 Can we work together to make life better for all Iowans, or will the session be spent on politics?\u201d\u00a0 Too many families are feeling the pinch of rising health care, child care costs, stagnant wages and a growing fear of more layoffs around the state. The Reynolds economy has made Iowa second to last in growth, so we need to think more broadly. Iowans expect us to help.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

There are 15 new state representatives and six new senators who are being sworn in Monday, in addition to many incumbents retaking their seats in the 91st General Assembly. The new lawmakers were elected in the 2024 general election and helped grow Iowa Republicans\u2019 hold at the statehouse, now holding supermajorities in both chambers with 67-33 in the Iowa House and 34-15 in the Senate.<\/p>\r\n

There is one Iowa Senate seat currently vacant \u2014 that of former Sen. Chris Cournoyer, a LeClaire Republican who was appointed to serve as Gov. Kim Reynolds\u2019 lieutenant governor<\/a> in December. The special election to fill her seat in Senate District 35 has been set for Jan. 28, with the state parties nominating Katie Whittington as the GOP candidate and Mike Zimmer as the Democratic candidate.<\/p>\r\n

GOP celebrates election victories<\/h4>\r\n

At the 2025 GOP legislative breakfast before the session kicked off, GOP leaders celebrated the major wins for Iowa Republicans in the 2024 election. Iowa GOP chair Jeff Kaufmann said the election proved that Iowans are happy with the measures passed by Republican majorities in previous state legislative sessions like the Education Savings Account program<\/a> and six-week abortion ban<\/a>. The fact that Democrats lost while campaigning against these controversial laws shows that Iowans approve of what GOP lawmakers have been doing at the Statehouse, he said.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cIowans have set a mandate that they want more of the same,\u201d Kaufmann said.<\/p>\r\n

Kaufmann led the crowd to dance similarly to Trump while the song \u201cYMCA\u201d played, and leaders like Reynolds and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley spoke about their excitement for having Trump in the White House and Republicans in control at both the state and federal levels.<\/p>\r\n

Reynolds said she spoke with Trump at Mar-a-Lago with other GOP governors earlier this month, where he complimented Iowa Republicans on the state\u2019s \u201cleadership in education and reform\u201d alongside other issues \u2013 saying that she believes Iowa can play an important role on the national stage for the new administration.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cOne of the things that\u2019s really exciting and we talked about is that Iowa can really be an example of what he\u2019s trying to do,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cWhether it\u2019s government alignment by cutting the red tape, education reform \u2013 we have so much opportunity over the next couple of years with Republican control in Washington, D.C. and Iowa.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Speaker Grassley also said that he believed the Trump administration will do better than President Joe Biden\u2019s administration on addressing issues like immigration and inflation \u2013 topics he said Iowa voters showed their concerns over in the 2024 election.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThough I believe state governments like Iowa will always be more nimble and able to react faster than the federal government, I have much more faith in President Trump and his administration to right the ship,\u201d Grassley said. \u201cOr at the very least, stop standing in the way of states trying to do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

While the first week of session will be light on discussion of new bills, lawmakers will hear from several key figures in the following days at the Iowa Capitol. On Tuesday at 6 p.m., Reynolds will give her Condition of the State address; Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Larson Christensen will give the Condition of the Judiciary at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and the Adjutant General of the Iowa National Guard Major General Stephen E. Osborn will deliver the Condition of the Guard at 10 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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