Senate debate calendar for Thursday, February 25

Today, the Iowa Senate is scheduled to debate legislation which includes bills designed to:

• Improve access to affordable health care (SF 2356)
• Create an income tax check off for child abuse prevention (SF 2364)
• Improve protections for victims of domestic abuse  (SF2357 and SF 2330)
• Protect Iowa elections from being drowned in corporate cash  (SF 2354)
• Strengthen grandparents’ rights (SF 2306 and SF 2302)

The full tentative debate calendar is posted below, and you can listen to live audio HERE.

SF 2366

Dvorsky COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act making, reducing, and supplementing appropriations for expenditures in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3197.) By Appropriations. (Eligible: 02/24/2010.)

SF 2364

Schmitz COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act relating to the income tax checkoff for the child abuse prevention program fund and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 2082.) By Ways & Means. (Eligible: 02/24/2010.)

SF 2357

Kreiman COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for An Act relating to prohibiting a person who is the subject of a no-contact order or a protective order or who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence from possessing, transferring, or selling firearms and ammunition or offensive weapons and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1033.) By Judiciary. (Eligible: 02/22/2010.)

SF 2356

Hatch COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act relating to health reform in Iowa by creating an IowaCare plus program and an Iowa insurance information exchange. (Formerly SF 2092.) By Human Resources. (Eligible: 02/22/2010.)

SF 2354

Danielson COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act relating to campaign finance, including political campaign activities and independent expenditures by corporations, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 3210.) By State Government. (Eligible: 02/18/2010.)

SF 2334

Ragan COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act relating to the development of a plan for a stroke triage system and registry. (Formerly SSB 3093.) By Human Resources. [SIMILAR/COMPANION To HF 2402, HF 2129 ] (Eligible: 02/18/2010.)

SF 2333

Dotzler COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act relating to health care facilities and programs, including hospital inspector requirements and dependent adult abuse. (Formerly SSB 3103.) By Human Resources. (Eligible: 02/18/2010.)

SF 2330

Olive COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing ordinances that require a landlord to evict or impose certain restrictions or penalties on residential tenants and including effective date provisions. By Local Government. [SIMILAR/COMPANION To HF 2277 ] (Eligible: 02/18/2010.)

SF 2324

Warnstadt COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act modifying provisions relating to franchises for the provision of cable service or video service, and including effective date provisions. By Commerce. [SIMILAR/COMPANION To HF 2300 ] (Eligible: 02/18/2010.)

SF 2316

Hogg COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act relating to flood plain management. (Formerly SSB 3098.) By Rebuild Iowa. (Eligible: 02/18/2010.)

SF 2307

Quirmbach COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act relating to damages recoverable for injury to or death of a person. By Judiciary. [SIMILAR/COMPANION To HF 758 ] (Eligible: 02/18/2010.)

SF 2306

Kreiman COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act relating to grandparent and great=grandparent visitation. By Judiciary. (Eligible: 02/18/2010.)

SF 2302

Kreiman COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act relating to grandparents’ rights to receive notice regarding child in need of assistance and related reviews and proceedings. (Formerly SSB 3143.) By Judiciary. (Eligible: 02/18/2010.)

SF 2217

Black COMMITTEE BILL — A bill for an act concerning the purchasing of raffle tickets. By State Government. [SIMILAR/COMPANION To HF 2037 ] (Eligible: 02/11/2010.)

PREPARED IN THE OFFICE OF SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MICHAEL GRONSTAL