DES MOINES, Iowa — The first funnel deadline at the Statehouse has officially passed, and while some bills are no longer ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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