Evidently anticipating a challenging public presence (although as of 5:10 PM there are only about 100 people in the Iowa House galleries), Speaker Murphy provided the following list of rules:

1. Persons signing up to testify will be permitted on the House floor during a public hearing.
2. To testify, members of the public will be required to enter the House chamber through the main entrance off the rotunda and will be required to sign-in.
3. Testifiers on the House floor during a public hearing are restricted to the area in the rear of the chamber and may not sit at legislators’ desks or clerks’ desks.
4. Testimony will be received at microphones located in the rear of the House chamber.
5. Each legislator may bring no more than one

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