HF 2173: Automatically restoring the right to vote and hold elective office for persons who have been discharged from probation, parole, or work release, or who have been released from confinement

What it does

This bill makes restoration of the right to register to vote and to vote automatic upon a person’s release from probation, parole, or work release. By operation of law, persons whose rights have been restored are eligible to run for elective office. The bill requires the department of corrections or the judicial district department of correctional services to provide written notice upon discharge from confinement or supervision that a person’s voting rights are restored and that the person must provide written notice of discharge when registering to vote. The notice shall also include a voter registration form.

Lobbying · 9 for, 1 against

For: Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Families United Action Network (FUAN); Horizons a Family Alliance; Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa Chapter of Sierra Club; Iowa Conference of United Methodist Church; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; League of Women Voters of Iowa; Personal Interest-Matthew Hickok

Against: Iowa Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

In plain words

1. January 29, 2020Filed in the House and sent to the Judiciary committee