Senate Journal: Page 1213: Tuesday, April 14, 1998

  Senate Joint Resolution 9, a joint resolution 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 5 of Article II of the Constitution of the State of Iowa is
  repealed and the following adopted in lieu thereof:

  DISQUALIFIED PERSONS.  Sec. 5.  A person adjudged mentally
  incompetent to vote or convicted of any felony shall not be entitled to
  the privilege of an elector.

  Sec. 2.  The foregoing 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.

  On the question "Shall the bill pass?" (S.J.R. 9), the vote was:

  Yeas, 49:

  Angelo	Bartz	Behn	Black
  Boettger	Borlaug	Connolly	Dearden
  Deluhery	Douglas	Drake	Dvorsky
  Fink	Flynn	Fraise	Freeman
  Gaskill	Gettings	Gronstal	Halvorson
  Hammond	Hansen	Harper	Hedge
  Horn	Iverson	Jensen	Judge
  Kibbie	King	Kramer	Lundby
  Maddox	McCoy	McKean	McKibben
  McLaren	Neuhauser	Palmer	Redfern
  Redwine	Rehberg	Rensink	Rife
  Rittmer	Schuerer	Szymoniak	Tinsman
  Zieman	

  Nays, none.

  Absent or not voting, 1:

  Vilsack			

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