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House Amendment 1146

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend House File 614 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 28, by inserting before line 33, the
  1  3 following:
  1  4    "Sec.    .  Section 39A.2, subsection 1, paragraph
  1  5 b, Code 2003, is amended by adding the following new
  1  6 subparagraph:
  1  7    NEW SUBPARAGRAPH.  (6)  Returns an absentee ballot
  1  8 application or voted absentee ballot to the
  1  9 commissioner's office and the person is not an
  1 10 immediate family member of the applicant or voter as
  1 11 that term is defined in section 53.1A or is not the
  1 12 designee of a voter described in section 53.22,
  1 13 subsection 5."
  1 14    #2.  Page 28, by inserting before line 33, the
  1 15 following:
  1 16    "Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  53.1A  DEFINITIONS.
  1 17    For purposes of this chapter, "immediate family
  1 18 member" of an absentee ballot applicant or absentee
  1 19 ballot voter means the spouse, adult child, parent,
  1 20 grandparent, or adult sibling of the applicant or
  1 21 voter."
  1 22    #3.  Page 29, line 7, by inserting after the word
  1 23 "office." the following:  "The commissioner may make
  1 24 absentee ballot applications available on the
  1 25 commissioner's office internet website."
  1 26    #4.  Page 29, by striking lines 15 through 19, and
  1 27 inserting the following:  "is not required.  Absentee
  1 28 ballot".
  1 29    #5.  Page 29, by striking lines 24 through 27, and
  1 30 inserting the following:  "than the appropriate
  1 31 commissioner.  A completed application for an absentee
  1 32 ballot may be returned only by the applicant, or a
  1 33 member of the applicant's immediate family, or the
  1 34 applicant's designee if the applicant is a voter
  1 35 described in section 53.22, subsection 5."
  1 36    #6.  Page 29, by inserting before line 28, the
  1 37 following:
  1 38    "Sec.    .  Section 53.2, Code 2003, is amended by
  1 39 adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
  1 40    NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH.  If an absentee ballot
  1 41 application is received by the commissioner more than
  1 42 sixty days before the election, the commissioner shall
  1 43 notify the applicant that the applicant must reapply
  1 44 for an absentee ballot no sooner than sixty days
  1 45 before the election."
  1 46    #7.  Page 29, line 34, by inserting after the
  1 47 figure "3." the following:  "However, the commissioner
  1 48 may mail an absentee ballot to an applicant less than
  1 49 seven days before the election if the applicant is a
  1 50 voter described in section 53.22, subsection 5."
  2  1    #8.  Page 30, line 17, by inserting after the word
  2  2 "applicant," the following:  "a member of the
  2  3 applicant's immediate family,".
  2  4    #9.  Page 30, line 25, by inserting after the word
  2  5 "voter," the following:  "or a member of the voter's
  2  6 immediate family,".
  2  7    #10.  Page 30, line 26, by inserting after the
  2  8 figure "53.22," the following:  "subsection 5,".
  2  9    #11.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  2 10 
  2 11 
  2 12                               
  2 13 JACOBS of Polk 
  2 14 HF 614.304 80
  2 15 sc/cf
     

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