HJR 2009 (LSB 1397HV (5) 87)

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION  OF THE STATE OF IOWA RELATING TO THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO  KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. 

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  The following amendment to the Constitution of  the State of Iowa is proposed: 
   Article I of the Constitution of the State of Iowa is amended  by adding the following new section: 
   Right to keep and bear arms.  SEC. 1A.  The right of the  people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The  sovereign state of Iowa affirms and recognizes this right to be  a fundamental individual right. Any and all restrictions of  this right shall be subject to strict scrutiny. 
    Sec. 2.
  REFERRAL AND PUBLICATION.
  The foregoing proposed  amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa is referred  to the general assembly to be chosen at the next general  election for members of the general assembly and the secretary  of state is directed to cause the same to be published for  three 

consecutive months previous to the date of that election  as provided by law. 

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LINDA UPMEYER
Speaker of the House

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CHARLES SCHNEIDER
President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this joint resolution originated in the House and is known as House Joint Resolution 2009, Eighty-seventh General Assembly.

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CARMINE BOAL
Chief Clerk of the House