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Senate Amendment 3409

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 470 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, by inserting after line 5 the
  1  3 following:
  1  4    "Sec. 101.  Section 43.7, Code 1999, is amended to
  1  5 read as follows:
  1  6    43.7  TIME OF HOLDING.
  1  7    The primary election by all political parties shall
  1  8 be held at the usual voting places of the several
  1  9 precincts on the first Tuesday after the first Monday
  1 10 in June September in each even-numbered year.
  1 11    Sec. 102.  Section 43.73, unnumbered paragraph 1,
  1 12 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  1 13    Not less than sixty-nine forty days before the
  1 14 general election the state commissioner shall certify
  1 15 to each commissioner, under separate party headings,
  1 16 the name of each person nominated as shown by the
  1 17 official canvass made by the executive council, or as
  1 18 certified to the state commissioner by the proper
  1 19 persons when any person has been nominated by a
  1 20 convention or by a party committee, or by petition,
  1 21 the office to which the person is nominated, and the
  1 22 order in which federal and state offices, judges,
  1 23 constitutional amendments, and state public measures
  1 24 shall appear on the official ballot.
  1 25    Sec. 103.  Section 43.76, Code 1999, is amended to
  1 26 read as follows:
  1 27    43.76  WITHDRAWAL OF NOMINATED CANDIDATES.
  1 28    1.  A candidate nominated in a primary election for
  1 29 any office for which nomination papers are required to
  1 30 be filed with the state commissioner may withdraw as a
  1 31 nominee for that office on or before, but not later
  1 32 than, the eighty-ninth forty-second day before the
  1 33 date of the general election by so notifying the state
  1 34 commissioner in writing.
  1 35    2.  A candidate nominated in a primary election for
  1 36 any office for which nomination papers are required to
  1 37 be filed with the commissioner may withdraw as a
  1 38 nominee for that office on or before, but not later
  1 39 than, the seventy-fourth fifty-fifth day before the
  1 40 date of the general election by so notifying the
  1 41 commissioner in writing.
  1 42    Sec. 104.  Section 43.78, subsections 2 and 3, Code
  1 43 1999, are amended to read as follows:
  1 44    2.  The name of any candidate designated to fill a
  1 45 vacancy on the general election ballot in accordance
  1 46 with subsection 1, paragraph "a", "b", or "c" shall be
  1 47 submitted in writing to the state commissioner not
  1 48 later than five o'clock p.m. on the eighty-first
  1 49 forty-first day before the date of the general
  1 50 election.
  2  1    3.  The name of any candidate designated to fill a
  2  2 vacancy on the general election ballot in accordance
  2  3 with subsection 1, paragraph "d", "e", or "f" shall be
  2  4 submitted in writing to the commissioner not later
  2  5 than five o'clock p.m. on the sixty-ninth fifty-fourth
  2  6 day before the date of the general election.
  2  7    Sec. 105.  Section 43.79, Code 1999, is amended to
  2  8 read as follows:
  2  9    43.79  DEATH OF CANDIDATE AFTER TIME FOR
  2 10 WITHDRAWAL.
  2 11    The death of a candidate nominated as provided by
  2 12 law for any office to be filled at a general election,
  2 13 during the period beginning on the eighty-eighth
  2 14 thirty-fifth day before the general election, in the
  2 15 case of any candidate whose nomination papers were
  2 16 filed with the state commissioner, or beginning on the
  2 17 seventy-third fortieth day before the general
  2 18 election, in the case of any candidate whose
  2 19 nomination papers were filed with the commissioner,
  2 20 and ending on the last day before the general election
  2 21 shall not operate to remove the deceased candidate's
  2 22 name from the general election ballot.  If the
  2 23 deceased candidate was seeking the office of senator
  2 24 or representative in the Congress of the United
  2 25 States, governor, attorney general, senator or
  2 26 representative in the general assembly or county
  2 27 supervisor, section 49.58 shall control.  If the
  2 28 deceased candidate was seeking any other office, and
  2 29 as a result of the candidate's death a vacancy is
  2 30 subsequently found to exist, the vacancy shall be
  2 31 filled as provided by chapter 69.
  2 32    Sec. 106.  Section 50.48, subsection 4, unnumbered
  2 33 paragraph 3, Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  2 34    The ballots or voting machine documents shall be
  2 35 resealed by the recount board before adjournment and
  2 36 shall be preserved as required by section 50.12.  At
  2 37 the conclusion of the recount, the recount board shall
  2 38 make and file with the commissioner a written report
  2 39 of its findings, which shall be signed by at least two
  2 40 members of the recount board.  The recount board shall
  2 41 complete the recount and file its report not later
  2 42 than the eighteenth twenty-seventh day following the
  2 43 county board's canvass of the election in question.
  2 44    Sec. 107.  Section 53.2, unnumbered paragraph 1,
  2 45 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  2 46    Any registered voter, under the circumstances
  2 47 specified in section 53.1, may on any day, except
  2 48 election day, and not more than seventy forty days
  2 49 prior to before the date of the general election and
  2 50 not more than seventy days before the date of other
  3  1 elections, apply in person for an absentee ballot at
  3  2 the commissioner's office or at any location
  3  3 designated by the commissioner, or make written
  3  4 application to the commissioner for an absentee
  3  5 ballot.  The state commissioner shall prescribe a form
  3  6 for absentee ballot applications.  However, if a
  3  7 registered voter submits an application that includes
  3  8 all of the information required in this section, the
  3  9 prescribed form is not required.  Absentee ballot
  3 10 applications may include instructions to send the
  3 11 application directly to the county commissioner of
  3 12 elections.  However, no absentee ballot application
  3 13 shall be preaddressed or printed with instructions to
  3 14 send the applications to anyone other than the
  3 15 appropriate commissioner.
  3 16    Sec. 108.  Section 53.39, unnumbered paragraph 2,
  3 17 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  3 18    All official ballots to be voted by qualified
  3 19 absent voters in the armed forces of the United States
  3 20 at the primary election and the general election shall
  3 21 be printed prior to forty at least ten days before the
  3 22 respective elections and shall be available for
  3 23 transmittal to such the qualified voters in the armed
  3 24 forces of the United States at least forty ten days
  3 25 before the respective elections and shall be accepted
  3 26 until thirty days after the election.  The provisions
  3 27 of this chapter apply to absent voting by qualified
  3 28 voters in the armed forces of the United States except
  3 29 as modified by the provisions of this division."
  3 30    #2.  Page 12, by inserting after line 12 the
  3 31 following:
  3 32    "Sec. 201.  Section 277.1, Code 1999, is amended to
  3 33 read as follows:
  3 34    277.1  REGULAR ELECTION.
  3 35    The regular election shall be held annually on the
  3 36 second Tuesday in September in each school district
  3 37 for the election of officers of the district and
  3 38 merged area and for the purpose of submitting to the
  3 39 voters any matter authorized by law.  However, if the
  3 40 regular election falls on the same day as the primary
  3 41 election, the regular election shall be held the
  3 42 following Tuesday."
  3 43    #3.  Title page, line 1, by inserting after the
  3 44 words "relating to" the following:  "election dates
  3 45 and".
  3 46    #4.  Title page, line 4, by inserting after the
  3 47 word "fees," the following:  "by changing primary
  3 48 election dates,".
  3 49    #5.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  3 50 
  4  1 
  4  2                               
  4  3 ANDY McKEAN 
  4  4 SF 470.513 78
  4  5 sc/jw
     

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