Iowa Legislature alive dead lists

DES MOINES — Issues still alive in the 2023 session of the Iowa Legislature include asset tests for public assistance, the handling of sexually graphic materials in schools, the relaxing of child labor regulations, and a ban on cellphone use while driving unless you’ve got a hands-free option. Other issues — prohibiting universities from hiring diversity, equity and inclusion staff, requiring the state DNR to prioritize maintenance of current public lands over new acquisitions, and that contentious bill that would have created a high bar for voluntary landowner participation before eminent domain could be employed in a carbon capture pipeline…