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House File 408

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Bill Introduced: H.J. 443
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 49.3, subsection 3, Code 1999, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    3.  Precincts Except as provided in section 49.4,
  1  4 subsection 3, precincts established after July 1, 1994, shall
  1  5 be composed of contiguous territory within a single county.
  1  6 The boundaries of all precincts shall follow the boundaries of
  1  7 areas for which official population figures are available from
  1  8 the most recent federal decennial census.
  1  9    Sec. 2.  Section 49.4, subsection 3, Code 1999, is amended
  1 10 to read as follows:
  1 11    3.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,
  1 12 Indian settlement land held in trust by the secretary of the
  1 13 interior of the United States for the Sac and Fox tribe of the
  1 14 Mississippi in Iowa and its trust land contiguous to the
  1 15 Indian settlement lying in Tama, Toledo and Indian Village
  1 16 townships of Tama county shall be an election precinct, and
  1 17 the.  The polling place of that precinct shall be located in
  1 18 the structure commonly called the Indian school located in
  1 19 section 19, township 83 north, range 15 west, or on the Indian
  1 20 settlement in such a structure as designated by the election
  1 21 commissioner of Tama county.
  1 22    The Indian settlement precinct shall be redrawn to include
  1 23 land contiguous to the Indian settlement when such land is
  1 24 purchased by the settlement and added to the Indian settlement
  1 25 land held in trust by the secretary of the interior of the
  1 26 United States.  Upon recording of the deed transferring the
  1 27 land to the United States in trust, the county recorder shall
  1 28 notify the county commissioner of that fact.  If the
  1 29 commissioner is notified more than seventy days before the
  1 30 next scheduled election, the commissioner shall redraw the
  1 31 precinct for that election.  The commissioner shall notify the
  1 32 board of supervisors of the redrawn precinct boundaries and
  1 33 shall certify the redrawn boundaries to the state
  1 34 commissioner.  Land completely surrounded by the boundaries of
  1 35 the Indian settlement precinct, but not included in the
  2  1 settlement precinct, shall be included in the precinct in
  2  2 which such land was located prior to redrawing of the Indian
  2  3 settlement precinct.  The commissioner shall notify registered
  2  4 voters in each of the redrawn precincts of the change in the
  2  5 precincts and the proper polling place for those affected
  2  6 voters.
  2  7    Sec. 3.  Section 49.8, Code 1999, is amended by adding the
  2  8 following new subsection:
  2  9    NEW SUBSECTION.  7.  When territory contiguous to the
  2 10 Indian settlement is added to the Indian settlement land held
  2 11 in trust by the secretary of the interior of the United
  2 12 States.  
  2 13                           EXPLANATION 
  2 14    This bill allows the county commissioner of elections to
  2 15 redraw the boundaries of the Indian settlement precinct in
  2 16 Tama county when land is added to the settlement land held in
  2 17 trust by the secretary of the interior of the United States on
  2 18 behalf of the Sac and Fox tribe of the Mississippi.  
  2 19 LSB 2023HH 78
  2 20 sc/cf/24

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