By Robert Cook

I have just updated IAF’s Secular Guide to 2024 Legislation. The new layout is 1000% easier to read and I deleted several columns of irrelevant information.

When it comes to the actual legislation, I have sort of good news, and I have bad news.

The sort of good news: Only about 20% of all the bills I am following (that I declared for or against) survived the first funnel (were voted out of a committee).

The bad news: That 20% of bills that survived contain some of the worst and they all have a high likelyhood that they will ultimately end up on Governor Reynold’s desk. And none of the bills I declared for even got a positive vote in a subcommittee. Not one.

So we still have a lot of work to do to fight back against Christian nationalism and theocratic privilege in the Iowa Statehouse. I will do my best to keep you informed when 1) important bills are open for public input at subcommittee hearings, 2) bills advance through the process, and 3) any other legislative shenanigans against our secular government.

Please take some time and check out our Secular Guide to 2024 Legislation. It might still give you a headache, but not from trying to make out the tiny little letters.

I moved all of the bills that survived the first funnel to the top of the list.The link to the file is below. Anyone with the link can open it, read it, and share it. I encourage you to spread it far and wide everywhere you can.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sTIEhLJ83GQggh2WLx7Trfb-R91IJ5avNpLkKqdTEXs/edit?usp=sharing