House Journal: Page 608: Monday, March 17, 2003
House File 590, by committee on state government, a bill for an
act relating to the election of directors of local school districts, area
education agencies, and merged areas, and including an effective
date, applicability, and transition provision.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 591, by committee on economic growth, a bill for an
act relating to the employment security administrative contribution
surcharge, and providing an effective date.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 592, by committee on economic growth, a bill for an
act relating to economic development-related issues of the
universities under the control of the state board of regents by
amending the composition of the Iowa economic development board
and the Iowa workforce development board, changing the university-
based research and economic development Act to address
commercialization of research, and creating an Iowa
commercialization advisory council.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 593, by committee on state government, a bill for an
act relating to elections and voter registration by providing for
nonpartisan election of township offices, allowing nomination
petitions to be signed on both sides of paper, removing the
requirement that judges' names be rotated on certain ballots,
removing certain authority to sign voter registration forms on behalf
of the registrant, relating to use of substitute precinct election
officials, relating to use of voting machine or paper ballots at certain
elections, modifying opening hours and closing hours of the polls at
certain elections, providing for destruction of certain ballots, relating
to the abstract of votes for county offices, providing for use of certain
voting machines at satellite absentee voting stations, relating to
observers present when ballots are counted, allowing absentee voting
at the commissioner's office for certain elections, and relating to
persons nominated for city office by write-in votes.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
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