Representative Bob Henderson

Below you will find a list of bills that passed the House this week, with links to their text on the legislative website:   SF 75 – Health facilities SF 391 – Education (comprehensive school improvement plans, teacher librarians and guidance counselors, required days or hours of instruction, required courses, community college courses) SF 538…

Greetings from the Iowa Capitol   This was “funnel” week here in the legislature, which meant that it was the last week when bills could be drafted and considered by sub-committees and sent to committees for passage. If they did not get through the committee acceptance, they will not make it to the floor for…

Greetings from the Iowa Capitol This, unlike other weeks, has been spent on more than just one important issue. Here’s why: The procedure for issues to become a law is as follows: First, bills  must be drafted by the Legislative Service Agency to be sure that they meet the type of language necessary. That often…

Greetings from the Iowa Capitol This has been a week that started a bit more slowly than what has happened in the weeks past, but we still were able to pass 15 bills and 2 resolutions on Wednesday. Nothing particularly controversial in any of those because they were mostly corrections to past deficiencies. The prevailing…

Greetings from the Iowa Capitol In case you have not been keeping track of what has been happening in Des Moines, we were heavily involved in debating and tweaking some very important legislation this week. The first of these which as I write this has now been signed into law by Governor Reynolds increases the…

Greetings from the Iowa Capitol This has been quite a week at the Capital in that we passed over 10 bills with very little discussion because they were mostly administrative to either correct or update language in previous legislation. And all of them passed by large majorities, many of them unanimously. I am glad to…