(Greenfield) Iowa House District 20 Representative Ray Sorensen plans to run his committee’s Broadband Grant Program Bill sometime this week.
Representative Sorensen says this is Governor Reynolds’ $450 million per year grant program broadband bill proposed for the next three years.
He says the goal is to provide matching grant funds for up to 75-percent of a project’s total cost to eliminate the Broadband Deserts across the state.
As for the Amendment to restore felons’ voting rights, Iowa is one of only two states that don’t have a legal process to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions. Sorensen says this passed unanimously through the House, and two bills passed this last week to lay out that process so that when certain felons have repaid their debt to society, they can get their voting rights back. The bill also clarifies what type of felons may be exempt and what the process looks like for certain felons to regain those rights.
