The 2024 legislative session continues to move forward in Iowa, meaning that the first funnel week is getting closer.

House Representative for District 23 Ray Sorensen tells Raccoon Valley Radio that next week is the last week before the first funnel week starts, and that means that any bills that are alive are being looked over to see if they need to be moved along.

“That could be a bill that was from last session, because a general assembly is two years. And so if a bill didn’t quite make it across the finish line last year, it’s still alive this year, and they just need to make sure that it gets through that subcommittee and committee process. It has to have a vote in favor, majority rule in subcommittee and then full committee, and then it’s ready. Then it goes back to the leaders, the speaker and the majority leader’s office, and they put it on the calendar.”

Sorensen says from there, it’s just a matter of continuing through the legislative process. He adds that once bills are passed in the House, they then make their way to the Senate for review and approval there, and vice versa. Once those steps have been completed, the bills then go to Governor Kim Reynolds’s desk, and she either signs them into law, or vetoes them.