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Medicaid system. K12 Education Funding as their top priority. You might remember that last year, lawmakers went several weeks past their deadline on coming to an agreement on that issue. And it finally ended with governor branstad vetoing the 55. 7 Million Dollar agreement the legislature finally came to. Representative dave jacoby says democrats and republicans will need to sort of re learn w to Work Together on the issue. Weve dug quite a deep hole with what the governor has done to education ithe last fouor five years. So now we have to make an incremental improvement. And incremental to me means at leaea 3 percent allowable growth. Jacoby also wants to see the state create more incentives for teacher Leadership Programs and other lawmakers we spoke with s ....
The lawmakers weve spoken with so far all seem to agree that coming to an agreement on how to fund k12 education early in the session representative ken rizer told us yesterday that how the agreement and how quickly they do it will set the tone for the rest of the session. Right behind education, managed medicaid system. We spoke with senator liz resources committee. She says lawmakers will be working on an oversight bill that will insure the companies that would handle the new system arent taking advantage of iowans. There are a number of other issues on the table making texting while driving a primary offense instead of a secondary offense, making improvements to iowas Water Quality, and finding ways to better help Small Businesses and upstarts get on their feet. Lawmakers say theyre optimistic they can get that all done before their deadline this year, but also last years ....