25TH Assembly District Representative Paul Tittl says he’s looking forward to returning to Madison.
The Manitowoc Republican was elected to his sixth two-year term earlier this month, after running unopposed in the mid-term election.
He says he’s working hard on two bills that he plans to introduce the first day of the new legislative session January 4th.
One was actually penned from an experience a Manitowoc woman had getting a Bible to her incarcerated son in The State Department of Corrections.
” He was doing a Bible study with a Lutheran minister in a Corrections Facility and his Pastor recommended a particular Study Bible that cost costing $110. There’s a personal limit of $75 so they threw it away. They never gave it to him.”
Tittl says that this simply does not make sense. adding
“If you want to send an inmate in The Department of Corrections a musical instrument, they can spend up to $350. But don’t you dare spend $110 on a Bible. Dumb.”
The Local legislator is working with The Department of Corrections to get those limits raised from $75 to $125 for personal items and the limit spent on musical instruments from $30 to $600.
These limits have not been raised since 1994.
A second bill. The clubhouse bill would allow organizations, such as Painting Pathways in Manitowoc, to raise a certain amount that would be matched by the state in the form of a grant to help support and change the lives of those with mental illness in Manitowoc County.
