HF 85: Restoring the right to register to vote and to vote and hold elective office for certain persons and including effective date provisions

What it does

8 which requires that, upon discharge from certain felony criminal sentences, citizenship rights related to voting and qualification for public office must be restored. The bill requires that the right to register to vote and to vote be restored for any individual who has been discharged from criminal sentence for any felony. To be discharged from criminal sentence, under the bill, an individual must also be discharged from any accompanying term of probation, parole, or supervised release. The restoration of citizenship rights provided for under the bill shall only extend to the right to register to vote and to vote and to hold elective office, and would not include any other citizenship rights.

Lobbying · 3 for, 1 against

For: Iowa Chapter of Sierra Club; Iowa Conference of United Methodist Church; League of Women Voters of Iowa

Against: Iowa Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

In plain words

1. January 24, 2019Filed in the House and sent to the State Government committee