SJR 9 (LSB 1213SV (4) 89)

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION  OF THE STATE OF IOWA RELATING TO THE QUALIFICATIONS OF  ELECTORS. 

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: 
   Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution of the State of  Iowa, as amended by the amendment of 1970, is repealed and the  following adopted in lieu thereof: 
   Section 1.  Electors.  Only a citizen of the United States  of the age of eighteen years, who shall have been a resident  of this state for such period of time as shall be provided by  law and of the county in which the citizen claims the citizen’s  vote for such period of time as shall be provided by law, shall  be entitled to vote at all elections which are authorized by  law. However, for purposes of a primary election, a United  States citizen must be at least eighteen years of age as of  the next general election following the primary election. The  required periods of residence shall not exceed six months in  this state and sixty days in the county. 
    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 shall be

  published as provided by law for three months previous to the  date of that election. 

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JAKE CHAPMAN
President of the Senate

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PAT GRASSLEY
Speaker of the House

   I hereby certify that this joint resolution originated in the Senate and is known as Senate Joint Resolution 9, Eighty-ninth General Assembly.

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W. CHARLES SMITHSON
Secretary of the Senate