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Senate Amendment 5132

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  1  1    Amend House File 656, as passed by the House, as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 12, by inserting before line 13, the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "Sec.    .  Section 49.53, unnumbered paragraph 1,
  1  6 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  1  7    The commissioner shall not less than four nor more
  1  8 than twenty days before the day of each election,
  1  9 except those for which different publication
  1 10 requirements are prescribed by law, publish notice of
  1 11 the election.  The notice shall contain a facsimile of
  1 12 the portion of the ballot containing the first
  1 13 rotation as prescribed by section 49.31, subsection 2,
  1 14 and shall show the names of all candidates or nominees
  1 15 and the office each seeks, and all public questions,
  1 16 to be voted upon at the election.  The sample ballot
  1 17 published as a part of the notice may at the
  1 18 discretion of the commissioner be reduced in size
  1 19 relative to the actual ballot but such reduction shall
  1 20 not cause upper case letters appearing on the
  1 21 published sample ballot to be less than five thirty-
  1 22 sixths of an inch high in candidates' names or in
  1 23 summaries of public measures the minimum type sizes
  1 24 required in section 49.57.  The notice shall also
  1 25 state the date of the election, the hours the polls
  1 26 will be open, the location of each polling place at
  1 27 which voting is to occur in the election, the location
  1 28 of the polling places designated as early ballot pick-
  1 29 up sites, and the names of the precincts voting at
  1 30 each polling place, but the statement need not set
  1 31 forth any fact which is apparent from the portion of
  1 32 the ballot appearing as a part of the same notice.
  1 33 The notice shall include the full text of all public
  1 34 measures to be voted upon at the election.  The notice
  1 35 shall also include notice of testing required pursuant
  1 36 to sections 52.9, 52.35, and 52.38."
  1 37    #2.  Page 16, by inserting after line 18 the
  1 38 following:
  1 39    "Sec.    .  Section 50.19, unnumbered paragraph 2,
  1 40 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  1 41    Material pertaining to elections for federal
  1 42 offices, including voted ballots, precinct election
  1 43 registers, declarations of eligibility signed by
  1 44 voters, documents relating to absentee ballots, and
  1 45 challenges of voters, shall be preserved for twenty-
  1 46 two months after the election.  If a contest is not
  1 47 pending the materials may be destroyed at the end of
  1 48 the retention period.
  1 49    Sec.    .  Section 50.19, Code 1999, is amended by
  1 50 adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
  2  1    NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH.  Unvoted ballots for all
  2  2 elections may be destroyed ten days following the
  2  3 deadline to contest the election for which the ballots
  2  4 were prepared or the day after final determination of
  2  5 all pending contests of the election for which the
  2  6 ballots were prepared, whichever is later."
  2  7    #3.  Page 19, by inserting after line 1, the
  2  8 following:
  2  9    Sec.    .  Section 53.2, unnumbered paragraph 1,
  2 10 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  2 11    Any registered voter, under the circumstances
  2 12 specified in section 53.1, may on any day, except
  2 13 election day, and not more than seventy days prior to
  2 14 the date of the election, apply in person for an
  2 15 absentee ballot at the commissioner's office or at any
  2 16 location designated by the commissioner, or make
  2 17 written application to the commissioner for an
  2 18 absentee ballot.  However, for those elections in
  2 19 which the commissioner directs the polls be opened at
  2 20 noon pursuant to section 49.73, a voter may apply in
  2 21 person for an absentee ballot at the commissioner's
  2 22 office from eight a.m. until eleven a.m. on election
  2 23 day.  The state commissioner shall prescribe a form
  2 24 for absentee ballot applications.  However, if a
  2 25 registered voter submits an application that includes
  2 26 all of the information required in this section, the
  2 27 prescribed form is not required.  Absentee ballot
  2 28 applications may include instructions to send the
  2 29 application directly to the county commissioner of
  2 30 elections.  However, no absentee ballot application
  2 31 shall be preaddressed or printed with instructions to
  2 32 send the applications to anyone other than the
  2 33 appropriate commissioner."
  2 34    #4.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  2 35 
  2 36 
  2 37                               
  2 38 SHELDON RITTMER
  2 39 HF 656.801 78
  2 40 sc/cf

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