House File 248

                                     HOUSE FILE       
                                     BY  WHITAKER, TYMESON, QUIRK, HOGG,
                                         MURPHY, REASONER, WHITEAD,
                                         SWAIM, STRUYK, GASKILL, PETERSEN,
                                         HEDDENS, D. HANSON, MILLER,
                                         DANDEKAR, MYERS, WINCKLER,
                                         LENSING, GREIMANN, and DAVITT


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to a request for an absentee ballot on behalf of
  2    a member of the armed forces of the United States.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2287HH 80
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PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 53.40, unnumbered paragraph 2, Code
  1  2 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    Unless the request specifies otherwise, a request for the
  1  4 primary election shall also be considered a request for the
  1  5 general election.  In the case of the general election For all
  1  6 elections, request may be made not more than seventy days
  1  7 before the election, for and on behalf of a voter in the armed
  1  8 forces of the United States by a spouse, parent, parent=in=
  1  9 law, adult brother, adult sister, or adult child of the voter,
  1 10 residing in the county of the voter's residence.  However, a
  1 11 request made by other than the voter may be required to be
  1 12 made on forms prescribed by the state commissioner.
  1 13                           EXPLANATION
  1 14    This bill provides that a family member, specified by law,
  1 15 may make a request for an absentee ballot on behalf of a voter
  1 16 in the armed forces of the United States for any election.
  1 17 Current law allows requests by proxy for a member of the armed
  1 18 forces only for the general election.
  1 19 LSB 2287HH 80
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