although something is better than nothing this is nearly not even close to the amount of money that is needed in order to fix the tech inside local government.
Do you know what the cost of turning all of their records, from paper into digital would be?
Perhaps part of the bill should include USDS standing up an internal project to iterate on rapidly improving a process for digitizing all of those records, cribbing off the work done by Google Books and the Internet Archive.
Excellent point though.
Title should be updated to state this is specific to the United States.