Iowa’s legislative session for 2024 is right around the corner, and one Senator shares her thoughts on how it may go.

Senator for District 12 Amy Sinclair says that compared to the last few years, she believes that this session will be a little slower. She mentions that revenues for the state have come in a little higher than what they’d expected, so she believes that legislators will dive back into the topic of income taxes and try to accelerate the cuts that were implemented in the last couple of years.

Sinclair tells Raccoon Valley Radio that the executive branch overhaul that Governor Kim Reynolds passed last year will also most likely be touched on again.

“I think taxes will be big on our minds moving forward. I also think, just last year we passed the Governor’s executive branch redesign, and so all of those departments were shuffled around and some of them eliminated and cut and combined. And so this year we’ll have to come back and make sure all the boards and commissions align with those new departments, and so that’s a big item that you’ll see us working on.”

Sinclair explains that based on some discussion with Governor Reynolds, the topic of Iowa’s Area Education Agencies (AEA) will most likely be brought up, saying that the state was admonished by the federal government when it came to the gap between kits for regular classrooms and kits for special education classrooms. She adds that it’s her belief that the legislators will try and see how Iowa’s AEAs can help to address this issue.