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A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest from Thursday: MENTAL HEALTH HELP: More than $11.5 million in federal relief funding is available to assist public school districts in providing mental health support and other wraparound services to pre-K-12 students. The money also will support community college efforts in expanding programming to help more Iowans earn short-term credentials needed for in-demand careers. Gov. Kim Reynolds and officials with the Iowa Department of Education say funds are Iowaâs share of more than $1.3 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money. The funding will support up to $8.67 million in competitive grants to help pre-K-12 school districts coordinate and deliver mental health services and wraparound support to students, youth mental health first aid training and implementation, and suicide prevention services and programming. ....
Radio Iowa You are here: Home Senate’s Democratic leader proposes changes for future election recounts Zach Wahls Senate Democratic Leader Zach Wahls says now that Democrat Rita Hart has conceded Iowa’s second congressional district race to Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks, disparities exposed by the recount in that race can be addressed. “I think the time is right, for a leadership bill, for Democrats and Republicans to come together to make some bipartisan changes to how recount elections are handled in Iowa,” says Wahls, who is from Coralville, which is in the second congressional district. Two weeks ago, Hart dropped her request for a U.S. House review of the contest. Miller-Meeks finished six votes ahead of Hart in November’s recount of the 400,000 ballots cast in the second congressional district’s 24 counties. Scott County barely competed its recount in time and Wahls says priority one should be letting counties have more than three me ....
Democrats are preparing to take aim at voting reforms under consideration in a number of states beyond Georgia, where state Republicans passed a slate of changes last month that sparked intense opposition on the Left. ....
Here are five facts on contested congressional elections: 1.        The authority for the House to overturn election results comes from the Constitution and the Federal Contested Elections Act. Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution says âEach House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members,â which means that the House and Senate can determine whether a member has been duly elected. In 1969, Congress passed the Federal Contested Elections Act, which laid out a procedure for losing candidates to contest the outcome. Within 30 days of the electionâs certification by the state election body, the losing candidate can file a notice with the U.S. House, starting a process including candidate statements and depositions. The process resembles a court trial, with the losing candidate having the burden of proof. ....
Iowa City Press-Citizen If you followed the directions from printer paper signs hung around LeClaire in fall 2019, you might have ended up in a gravel parking lot at the foot of a bluff. There, two children sat in golf carts signaling traffic. Hop in; we ll give you a ride up, said Sam Schilling. Not quite the youngest of his six brothers and four sisters, Sam could reach the cart s pedals and so his father put him in charge of carting people to the house for his event. As the cart filled with guests, he looked at his younger brother: You may have to walk up. ....