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House Amendment 8755

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend House File 656, as passed by the House, as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 1, by striking lines 9 through 12.
  1  4    #2.  Page 1, by inserting before line 13 the
  1  5 following:
  1  6    "Sec. ___.  Section 39.3, Code 1999, is amended by
  1  7 adding the following new subsection:
  1  8    NEW SUBSECTION.  17.  "Written" and "in writing"
  1  9 may include any mode of representing words or letters
  1 10 in general use.  A signature, when required by law,
  1 11 must be made by the writing or markings of the person
  1 12 whose signature is required.  If a person is unable
  1 13 due to a physical disability to make a written
  1 14 signature or mark, that person may substitute either
  1 15 of the following in lieu of a signature required by
  1 16 law:
  1 17    a.  The name of the person with a disability
  1 18 written by another upon the request and in the
  1 19 presence of the person with a disability.
  1 20    b.  A rubber stamp reproduction of the name or
  1 21 facsimile of the actual signature of the person with a
  1 22 disability when adopted by that person for all
  1 23 purposes requiring a signature and then only when
  1 24 affixed by that person or another upon the request and
  1 25 in the presence of the person with a disability."
  1 26    #3.  Page 1, by striking lines 16 through 19.
  1 27    #4.  Page 1, by striking lines 23 through 27 and
  1 28 inserting the following:  "state shall be an eligible
  1 29 elector.  An elected official shall be a resident of
  1 30 the state, district, county, township, city, or ward
  1 31 by or for which the person was elected, or in which
  1 32 the duties of the office are to be exercised, for
  1 33 sixty days before the date of the election at which
  1 34 the office is to be filled.  An elected official
  1 35 shall".
  1 36    #5.  Page 2, line 5, by striking the word
  1 37 "fourteen" and inserting the following:  "eleven".
  1 38    #6.  Page 7, line 21, by striking the word
  1 39 "fourteen" and inserting the following:  "eleven".
  1 40    #7.  Page 9, by striking lines 25 through 34.
  1 41    #8.  Page 11, by inserting after line 31 the
  1 42 following:
  1 43    "Sec. ___.  Section 48A.30, subsection 1, paragraph
  1 44 a, Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  1 45    a.  The registered voter dies.  For the purposes of
  1 46 this subsection, the commissioner may accept as
  1 47 evidence of death a notice from the state registrar of
  1 48 vital statistics forwarded by the state registrar of
  1 49 voters, a written statement from a member of the
  1 50 registered voter's household, an obituary in a
  2  1 newspaper, a written statement from an election
  2  2 official, or a notice from the clerk of the district
  2  3 court in county recorder of the county where the
  2  4 registered voter died."
  2  5    #9.  Page 12, by striking lines 10 through 12, and
  2  6 inserting the following:  "withdrawals by candidates
  2  7 for the general election."
  2  8    #10.  Page 12, by inserting before line 13, the
  2  9 following:
  2 10    "Sec.    .  Section 49.53, unnumbered paragraph 1,
  2 11 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  2 12    The commissioner shall not less than four nor more
  2 13 than twenty days before the day of each election,
  2 14 except those for which different publication
  2 15 requirements are prescribed by law, publish notice of
  2 16 the election.  The notice shall contain a facsimile of
  2 17 the portion of the ballot containing the first
  2 18 rotation as prescribed by section 49.31, subsection 2,
  2 19 and shall show the names of all candidates or nominees
  2 20 and the office each seeks, and all public questions,
  2 21 to be voted upon at the election.  The sample ballot
  2 22 published as a part of the notice may at the
  2 23 discretion of the commissioner be reduced in size
  2 24 relative to the actual ballot but such reduction shall
  2 25 not cause upper case letters appearing on the
  2 26 published sample ballot to be less than five thirty-
  2 27 sixths of an inch high in candidates' names or in
  2 28 summaries of public measures the minimum type sizes
  2 29 required in section 49.57.  The notice shall also
  2 30 state the date of the election, the hours the polls
  2 31 will be open, the location of each polling place at
  2 32 which voting is to occur in the election, the location
  2 33 of the polling places designated as early ballot pick-
  2 34 up sites, and the names of the precincts voting at
  2 35 each polling place, but the statement need not set
  2 36 forth any fact which is apparent from the portion of
  2 37 the ballot appearing as a part of the same notice.
  2 38 The notice shall include the full text of all public
  2 39 measures to be voted upon at the election.  The notice
  2 40 shall also include notice of testing required pursuant
  2 41 to sections 52.9, 52.35, and 52.38."
  2 42    #11.  Page 14, by inserting after line 23, the
  2 43 following:
  2 44    "Sec. ___.  Section 49.84, Code 1999, is amended by
  2 45 adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
  2 46    NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH.  This section does not
  2 47 prohibit a voter from taking minor children into the
  2 48 voting booth with the voter.
  2 49    Sec. ___.  Section 49.88, Code 1999, is amended by
  2 50 adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
  3  1    NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH.  This section does not
  3  2 prohibit a voter from taking minor children into the
  3  3 voting booth with the voter."
  3  4    #12.  Page 16, by inserting after line 18 the
  3  5 following:
  3  6    "Sec.    .  Section 50.19, unnumbered paragraph 2,
  3  7 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  3  8    Material pertaining to elections for federal
  3  9 offices, including voted ballots, precinct election
  3 10 registers, declarations of eligibility signed by
  3 11 voters, documents relating to absentee ballots, and
  3 12 challenges of voters, shall be preserved for twenty-
  3 13 two months after the election.  If a contest is not
  3 14 pending the materials may be destroyed at the end of
  3 15 the retention period.
  3 16    Sec.    .  Section 50.19, Code 1999, is amended by
  3 17 adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
  3 18    NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH.  Unvoted ballots for all
  3 19 elections may be destroyed ten days following the
  3 20 deadline to contest the election for which the ballots
  3 21 were prepared or the day after final determination of
  3 22 all pending contests of the election for which the
  3 23 ballots were prepared, whichever is later."
  3 24    #13.  Page 17, by striking lines 8 through 14.
  3 25    #14.  Page 18, line 35, by striking the figure
  3 26 "2000," and inserting the following:  "2001,".
  3 27    #15.  Page 19, by inserting after line 1, the
  3 28 following:
  3 29    "Sec.    .  Section 53.2, unnumbered paragraph 1,
  3 30 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  3 31    Any registered voter, under the circumstances
  3 32 specified in section 53.1, may on any day, except
  3 33 election day, and not more than seventy days prior to
  3 34 the date of the election, apply in person for an
  3 35 absentee ballot at the commissioner's office or at any
  3 36 location designated by the commissioner, or make
  3 37 written application to the commissioner for an
  3 38 absentee ballot.  However, for those elections in
  3 39 which the commissioner directs the polls be opened at
  3 40 noon pursuant to section 49.73, a voter may apply in
  3 41 person for an absentee ballot at the commissioner's
  3 42 office from eight a.m. until eleven a.m. on election
  3 43 day.  The state commissioner shall prescribe a form
  3 44 for absentee ballot applications.  However, if a
  3 45 registered voter submits an application that includes
  3 46 all of the information required in this section, the
  3 47 prescribed form is not required.  Absentee ballot
  3 48 applications may include instructions to send the
  3 49 application directly to the county commissioner of
  3 50 elections.  However, no absentee ballot application
  4  1 shall be preaddressed or printed with instructions to
  4  2 send the applications to anyone other than the
  4  3 appropriate commissioner."
  4  4    #16.  Page 27, by striking lines 13 and 14.
  4  5    #17.  Page 34, by striking lines 2 through 19.
  4  6    #18.  Page 34, by striking lines 30 and 31, and
  4  7 inserting the following:  "by the voters or when a
  4  8 district becomes wholly or in part within includes all
  4  9 of a city of fifteen thousand population or more in
  4 10 the".
  4 11    #19.  Page 43, by inserting after line 21, the
  4 12 following:
  4 13    "Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  The sections of this
  4 14 Act which amend sections 43.14, 45.5, and 45.6, take
  4 15 effect January 1, 2001."
  4 16    #20.  Title page, line 4, by inserting after the
  4 17 word "laws" the following:  "and providing an
  4 18 effective date".
  4 19    #21.  By renumbering, relettering, or redesignating
  4 20 and correcting internal references as necessary.  
  4 21 HF 656S
  4 22 sc/cc/26
     

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