Priorities

Priorities

Voting

  • Promote equal access to voting and ensure all votes are counted. 
  • Adopt automatic voter registration. Enact ranked choice voting. 
  • Pass a constitutional amendment allowing Iowans with felony convictions to vote after time served.

Transparency & Citizenship

  • Demand government accountability and transparency by requiring all amendments and bills discussed in committee to be available to the public prior to a vote.
  • Demand timely processing of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
  • Encourage direct citizen participation by continuing virtual committee and subcommittee meetings.
  • Preserve gender balance requirements for state boards and commissions.

Education

  • Increase oversight and track public funds being used for non-public schools.
  • Require any non-public school receiving public funds to meet the same standards as public schools.
  • Fully fund public schools.
  • Continue to expand access to affordable childcare and four-year-old preschool.

Reproductive Rights

  • Guarantee access to the full range of women's reproductive health services.
  • Make contraception available without a prescription.
  • Ensure Medicaid services are comprehensive and accessible.
  • Support new moms with 12 months of postpartum Medicaid coverage.
  • Set policies that attract maternal health professionals and address the state's OB/GYN deserts.

Human Trafficking

  • Prevent human trafficking in all of its forms, support its victims, and enact "Safe Harbor" legislation to protect human trafficking survivors from criminal prosecution.

Environment

  • Increase funding for environment and water quality initiatives, including REAP, and develop state climate change strategies.

Gun Safety

  • Enact comprehensive common sense gun safety legislation to address increasing gun violence in the state.
  • Enact background checks on all gun sales, close gun show loopholes, require gun safety locks, repeal "stand your ground" law, and resist efforts that expand carrying in public spaces and schools.

For more information, go to the League of Women Voters of Iowa website.