Senate Journal: Page 1046: Thursday, April 2, 1998

  whole membership of each house of the General Assembly for
  passage.
  ENFORCEMENT OF THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY REQUIREMENT.
  Sec. 3. A lawsuit challenging the proper enactment of a bill pursuant
  to section 1 or 2 shall be filed no later than one year following the
  enactment.  Failure to file such a lawsuit within the one-year time
  limit shall negate the three-fifths majority requirement as it applies
  to the bill.
  Each bill to which section 1 or 2 applies shall include a separate
  provision describing the requirements for enactment prescribed by
  section 1 or 2.
  IMPLEMENTATION.  Sec. 4.  The General Assembly shall enact
  laws to implement sections 1 through 3.
  Sec. 3.  The foregoing proposed amendments to the Constitution of
  the State of Iowa are 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 them to be published for
  three consecutive months previous to the date of that election as
  provided by law.


  On the question "Shall the resolution pass?" (S.J.R. 2004), the vote
  was:

  Yeas, 32:

  Angelo	Bartz	Behn	Black
  Boettger	Borlaug	Douglas	Drake
  Freeman	Gaskill	Gronstal	Halvorson
  Hansen	Hedge	Horn	Iverson
  Jensen	King	Kramer	Lundby
  Maddox	McKean	McKibben	McLaren
  Redfern	Redwine	Rehberg	Rensink
  Rittmer	Schuerer	Tinsman	Zieman	

  Nays, 16:

  Connolly	Dearden	Deluhery	Dvorsky
  Fink	Flynn	Fraise	Hammond
  Harper	Judge	Kibbie	McCoy
  Neuhauser	Palmer	Rife	Szymoniak	

  Absent or not voting, 2:

  Gettings	Vilsack		

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