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1 1 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
1 2 the State of Iowa is proposed:
1 3 Section 4 of Article III of the Constitution of the State
1 4 of Iowa, as amended by the Amendment of 1880 and the Amendment
1 5 of 1926, is repealed beginning with terms of office filled at
1 6 the general election in the year 2002 and the following
1 7 adopted in lieu thereof:
1 8 QUALIFICATIONS. Sec. 4. A person shall not be a member of
1 9 the House of Representatives unless the person shall have
1 10 attained the age of twenty-one years, be a citizen of the
1 11 United States, and shall have been an inhabitant of this State
1 12 one year next preceding the person's election, and at the time
1 13 of the person's election shall have had an actual residence of
1 14 sixty days in the district the person may have been chosen to
1 15 represent, and shall continue to reside, and shall maintain a
1 16 permanent residence, in the district for the length of the
1 17 term to which the representative was elected.
1 18 Sec. 2. The foregoing amendment to the Constitution of the
1 19 State of Iowa is referred to the General Assembly to be chosen
1 20 at the next general election for members of the General
1 21 Assembly and the Secretary of State is directed to cause the
1 22 same to be published for three consecutive months previous to
1 23 the date of that election as provided by law.
1 24 EXPLANATION
1 25 This joint resolution proposes an amendment to the
1 26 Constitution of the State of Iowa to provide that a member of
1 27 the Iowa senate or Iowa house of representatives shall reside,
1 28 and maintain a permanent residence, in the district from which
1 29 the member was elected. The residency and citizenship
1 30 qualifications established by the Constitution for members of
1 31 the Iowa House of Representatives also apply to members of the
1 32 Iowa Senate per Article III, section 5 of the Constitution.
1 33 The amendment applies beginning with terms of office filled at
1 34 the 2002 general election.
1 35 The resolution, if adopted, would be referred to the next
2 1 general assembly before being submitted to the electorate for
2 2 ratification.
2 3 LSB 2285YH 77
2 4 sc/jw/5
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