Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa lawmakers have paved the way for the nation’s most restrictive abortion legislation in the country. The Republican-majority Iowa Senate fast-tracked a vote early Wednesday morning on a so-called “heartbeat” bill that seeks to ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected. The GOP-controlled Iowa House approved the bill hours earlier.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has appointed her 78-year-old father to a six-year term on a panel that vets and recommends candidates for open judgeships. Reynolds on Tuesday announced that she had appointed Charles Strawn of Saint Charles to the District 5A Judicial Nomination Commission, among two dozen other appointments to similar commissions. The governor’s announcement didn’t mention that Strawn is her father, but press secretary Brenna Smith confirmed the relationship.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Police in eastern Iowa have announced an arrest in the killing of a woman pulled from a burning garage. Cedar Rapids police say they have arrested 38-year-old Timothy Wesley Evans in the death of 38-year-old Gina Frederiksen. Police said Tuesday in a news release that investigators believe Evans broke into the detached garage, assaulted Frederiksen and then set fire to the garage.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate has amended his annual personal financial disclosure to list several private companies that were left off his initial filing. The Associated Press reported last month that a company Pate formed in 2016 recently spent $2 million purchasing a strip mall and developing a Cedar Rapids storage business. Yet he didn’t name the company when asked to list his outside businesses. Pate’s amended filing names that company and three others that weren’t on his earlier form.