The Iowa Senate had a heated debate about the water quality bill Governor Kim Reynolds has pledged to sign into law. A bill that passed the Republican-led Senate LAST YEAR got final legislative approval in the Iowa HOUSE on Tuesday. Senator Rob Hogg, a Democrat from Cedar Rapids, says the bill fails to target the state money to where it would do the most good and fails to restart the state’s water monitoring program.
Senator Randy Feenstra, a Republican from Hull who’s a banker, accused critics of “trampling” on farmers.
The bill’s backers say it will provide 286 million dollars for water quality projects over the next 12 years. However, there’s just a four-million-dollar allotment for next year.
