Ray Sorensen

(Greenfield) Iowa District #20 Representative Ray Sorensen is satisfied with the accomplishments of the 2021 Legislative Session. Iowa Republican Lawmakers wrapped up the session late Wednesday night, with the passing of voting, guns, police, education, abortion, and tax cuts. Sorensen says as one of 100 members of the House, one...

(Des Moines) Iowa House District 20 Representative Ray Sorensen of Greenfield voted this week for some amendments to a House bill banning the vaccine passports in certain locations or denies entry to people who haven’t received the COVID-19 shot. The Bill passed 52-33, and 15 did not vote. The Bill...

(Greenfield) Iowa House District 20 Representative Ray Sorensen of Greenfield says the mental health tax levy plan released by the Senate last week is geared toward removing the mental health levy from property taxes and shifting the system’s financing from county property taxes to state tax dollars. Sorensen says this...

Iowa House District 20 Representative Ray Sorensen, in his newsletter to his constituents, Sunday, said “The self-imposed deadline of second funnel for the Legislature was this week and we are hopefully seeing a light at the end of the session tunnel. Policy bills from the Senate must be out of committee in the House, and likewise House bills must be out of committee in the Senate in order to continue being considered. The exceptions are bills with tax implications or appropriations. The purpose of the first and second funnel deadlines is to narrow what the chambers will deliberate and focus our attention on budgets and tax reduction policies.

(Greenfield) Iowa House District 20 Representative Ray Sorensen plans to run his committee’s Broadband Grant Program Bill sometime this week. Representative Sorensen says this is Governor Reynolds’ $450 million per year grant program broadband bill proposed for the next three years. He says the goal is to provide matching grant...

(Des Moines) Iowa House Republicans passed a gun bill this week that offers an option to “constitutional carry” a concealed handgun. Iowa House District 20 Republican Representative Ray Sorensen says the bill allows law-abiding citizens the right to carry a firearm for their self-defense or others without first having to obtain a government permission slip in the form of a permit. Sorensen says a person can still get a permit to acquire or carry, but it will no longer be required.

(Des Moines) Iowa District 20 Representative Ray Sorensen of Greenfield says Funnel week came to an end on Friday, and now the work towards the second funnel in a couple of weeks. Funnel week is a self-imposed deadline for each session which means all bills must be voted out of their Senate and House committees and sent to each full chamber. Bills that don’t make it out of committee are essentially dead, meaning legislators won’t have an opportunity to vote on them. , there are ways that bills can come back from the “dead,” in the form of amendments and standing apropos, etc.

(Greenfield) Iowa House District 20 Representative Ray Sorensen sheds some light on the Education bill dubbed “the voucher bill” by those opposed. It is broken up into three different bills to make its way through the subcommittee process. Sorensen says those in support of the ESAs say it is a...

In today’s Let’s Talk Guthrie County, Iowa House District 20 Representative Ray Sorensen previews the start of the 89th General Assembly.