Highlights in this edition: 

• Final Revenue Numbers for Fiscal Year 2025 Released
  • Even with the January 2025 implementation of reducing personal income tax rates to 3.8 percent, net personal income tax revenue to the state actually grew in Fiscal Year 2025
• Open Enrollment For Health Insurance, Iowa Counselors Here to Help
  • For Iowans purchasing their health insurance through the exchange, individual health coverage begins on November 1
• How Do We Protect Out Students and Teachers in Our Schools?
  
  • House Republicans will continue to work with teachers to make classrooms safe again
• Mental Health Annual Spending Reaches $1.28 Billion in Iowa
  • This includes a $9.65 million increase of funding and employees to specialize the Independence Mental Health Institute to behaviorally complex youth and the Cherokee MHI to acute and forensic adults
• Background on the Deployment of the National Guard by the President 
  • In September 1962 President Kennedy invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807, federalized the Mississippi National Guard, and deployed federal troops including units from 101st Airborne Division (over 31,000 troops were deployed to the campus of the University of Mississippi) to restore order and allow Ole Miss's first black student James Meredith to attend class

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