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Voting Rights Bill Passes House 83-16!
HB 70, our bill to restore voting rights to former felons who have served their debt to society, just passed the House floor 83-16, with strong majorities of both Democrats and Republicans voting Yes!
Rep Jesse Crenshaw (D) and Lonnie Napier (R) spoke out strongly on the House floor in favor of the legislation.
Click Here for a PDF list of legislators who voted for HB 70. Please thank them with a call or an email - particularly if your own Representative is on the list.
This win closely follows our victory last week in which the same bill passed out of House committee unanimously.
Congratulations to everyone who has helped make this possible!
Now the real challenge begins in the Senate. Pick up that phone and Call your Senator, write a letter to the editor, and otherwise spread the word, then join us for our major lobby day and rally in Frankfort on March 4th!
We can win this.
HB 70
Re: HB 70
There is a little time left to put pressure on them with some extremely outside possibility of movement on the bill tomorrow (the last day of the Session).
For recent blog updates related to this issue, visit here - http://www.kftc.org/blog/topics/Restoration%20of%20Voting%20Rights
Mostly, it looks like we'll have to spend the next year building support for the bill across the state and especially in key legislative districts.
HB 70 passes House