• Summary of those amendments HERE
• Please reach out to your local legislators to tell them how this would impact your company

• Among other things, appropriates $100 million from state funds to broadband grant programs

• The Governor's broadband bill provides a tiered approach to grant funding based on current broadband access/capabilities and has speed requirements
• Tier 1: areas with less than 25/3 mbps speed available
• Minimum 20% of grant funds must go to this tier to serve difficult areas
• 100/100 buildout is eligible for a 75% match
• 100/20 buildout is eligible for a 50% match
• Tier 2: areas with 25/3 to 50 down with no upload target
• 100/100 buildout is eligible for a 50% match
• Tier 3: areas with 50 to 80 mpbs (no upload target)
• 100/100 buildout is eligible for a 50% match

• Fluid milk has been deemed an indivisible load by the Federal Government and thus eligible to haul overweight on interstates
• We're working with the Iowa State Dairy Association and Iowa DOT to create an annual permit for interstate travel up to 96,000 lbs.

• This bill is in Senate Ways & Means Committee and is funnel-proof this year and next
• Introduced by the Iowa Bankers Assn and Wells Fargo
• This bill would create a central filing system that all buyers (local sale barns, meat processors, lockers, grain buyers, grocers, etc.) would have to check before issuing payment to each farmer
• It shifts the burden to buyers, increases the number of two-party checks and is not an improvement on our current system
• Bank lobbyists say they want to move a paper system to electronic but have disregarded solutions that would allow for electronic/e-mail notifications through direct notice
• Current bill registrations (all ag groups against, bankers support) HERE

• Biden says he’s open to compromise with Republicans on $2 trillion infrastructure plan

• Feenstra, Ernst Meet With Iowans to Discuss Rural Broadband