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AJ Taylor4 hours agoLast Updated: May 20, 2021
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, spoke on the Senate floor to highlight the challenges Iowa employers are facing with getting employees back to work due to the enhanced federal unemployment dollars. Ernst called on the need for Congress, the Biden Administration, and state leaders across the country to take action and help get America up and running again.
Last week, Ernst applauded Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds for curbing the additional federal unemployment benefits that have helped lead to this problem and joined a bicameral effort to repeal them at the federal level.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds discusses signing a bill to prohibit mask mandates in schools.
After signing a bill to prohibit mask mandates in schools, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds told Fox & Friends on Friday that parents will have the choice to put a mask on their kids instead of it being forced on them by schools.
KIM REYNOLDS: Well, first of all, our kids, for the most part, have been in school since August and we’ve been able to do it safely and responsibly. I started the legislative session by assigning into law an option that gave parents the opportunity to choose 100% in-school, five days a week, all day, and I’m proud to say that I closed this session by signing into law not allowing schools, local governments, the ability to initiate a mask mandate.
Iowa Law Banning Mask Mandates in Schools Contains a Lot More
Early yesterday, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a new law banning mask mandates by both Iowa public schools
and Iowa cities/counties. However, there was a lot more in the bill that you may not be aware of.
What else was in House File 847?
At its onset, the new legislation reads,
An Act relating to educational programs, funding, tax credits and deductions, open enrollment, supplementary weighting, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.
The Des Moines Register reports Iowa republicans introduced the mask mandate measure as an amendment to House File 847. What else is in House File 847 which passed in the Senate with 29 yeas and 17 nays ? There are other elements including items from the governor s Students First Act including new Open Enrollment Rules and the ability for districts to use a flexible student and school support program.
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