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JFAC divided over $2.5M federal Digital Access grant for libraries; substitute and original motions both fail
Summary
Committee members debated a $2.5 million federal Digital Access grant for libraries and a substitute motion to strip the grant; both the substitute and the original funding motion failed to secure the House majority and were not approved.
Committee members clashed March 7 over a proposed $2.5 million federal grant called the Digital Access for All Idahoans program that would be administered through the Idaho Commission for Libraries.
Brooke Dupree, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, presented the commission's budget and the $2,500,000 federal enhancement labeled "digital access for all Idahoans." Senator Cook moved the original package (which included $42,400 general fund for broadband reimbursement, $40,000 federal for subgrants, and $2,500,000 federal for the digital‑access grant) totaling $2,582,400. Representative Gallabis seconded earlier procedural steps.
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