IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH
The Iowa Senate on Tuesday passed an altered version of a proposed constitutional amendment that would declare there is no right to an abortion.
The House passed House Joint Resolution 5 on Jan. 27. The original language stated: “To defend and protect unborn children, we the people of the State of Iowa declare that this Constitution does not recognize, grant, or secure a right to abortion or require the public funding of abortion.”
The Senate’s version of the amendment would read:
“To defend the dignity of all human life and to protect mothers and unborn children from efforts to expand abortion even to the day of birth, we the people of the State of Iowa declare that this Constitution shall not be construed to recognize, grant or secure a right to abortion or to require the public funding of abortion.”
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By Rod Boshart, Special to the Globe Gazette
DES MOINES â The Iowa Senate on Tuesday evening passed a massive overhaul of Iowaâs mental-health services delivery system that is currently funded by local property taxes.
Senators voted 30-17 along party lines to revamp mental-health financing by shifting the cost of regional services from Iowaâs 99 counties to the state and phasing out the $152 million âbackfill&â to cities, counties and schools that was part of a 2013 compromise to replace local revenue they lost when commercial and industrial property tax rates were cut by 10 percent.
âWe were elected here to do bold changes, bring big ideas and make the state of Iowa a better place. This bill today accomplishes some of those goals,â said Sen. Dan Dawson, a Council Bluffs Republican who managed Senate File 587.
Iowa Senate passes mental health funding changes
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