Starting Oct. 4, the state of California will prohibit state-funded and state-sponsored travel to the Hawkeye State. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra made the announcement Friday, adding Iowa to a list of 10 other states California believes passed laws discriminating against the LGBTQ community. "California has taken an unambiguous stand against discrimination and government actions that would enable it," Mr. Becerra said. "That's why my office is adding Iowa to the list of states subject to state-funded or sponsored travel restrictions." Alabama, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas are the other states on the list. The ban stems from an Iowa law passed earlier this year by the Iowa Legislature and signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds. The law bans publicly-funded insurance like Medicaid from covering sex reassignment surgery for transgender Iowans. Ms. Reynolds said then that policy has been the state's position for a long time: "This takes it back to the way it's always been."
Sigh.
I want the list of all the policies California Attorney General Xavier Becerra disagrees with so that the Iowa Legislature can pass a law for each of those.
I also want to know what happens when there is a mutually beneficial situation, such as a company that is currently located in CA that wants to build a new facility in IA that would be great for that company in CA and IA doesn't want to build it so, normally, a delegation from the company in CA would travel to IA to talk to a potential landowner about it. According to this new policy from California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, such travel would be prohibited and, in this fantasy scenario, there would be no partnership between the two states even though the business would benefit.
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