The first funnel is in place to weed out ideas that may not have a chance at passing.

Policy bills that were not passed out of a committee by Friday are considered no longer eligible for further consideration this year ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The first funnel deadline at the Statehouse has officially passed, and while some bills are no longer being considered, others are one step closer to becoming law. The first funnel ...

Monday kicked off the first funnel week of the 2026 Iowa legislative session. The major deadline funnels down the number of bills that state lawmakers can continue to work on.

Six weeks into the legislative session, Iowa lawmakers faced the first legislative deadline of the session on Feb. 20., where ...

See which bills lived and died after the Iowa Legislature's first "funnel" deadline of 2026.

CLOSE UP. THE FIRST FINAL WEEK OF THE 2025 LEGISLATIVE SESSION IS OVER. WHAT BILLS ARE STILL ALIVE AND WHAT DID NOT MAKE IT PAST THE DO OR DIE DEADLINE? AND HEAR WHAT REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ...

It's "funnel week" at the Iowa Legislature: do or die for many bills that haven't made it far enough through the session.

As Iowa passed the first funnel deadline of this legislative session, some controversial proposals will no longer be considered. Our Quad Cities News correspondent Teodora Mitov looks at why bills on ...

Bills targeting libraries, public assistance programs and civil rights ordinances survived a legislative deadline, a ban on all abortions did not.

Feb. 20 saw the passage of the first legislative funnel. This is a deadline lawmakers set to winnow down bills eligible for consideration for the remainder of the session. It doesn’t apply to spending ...