Senate Journal: Page 810: Tuesday, April 8, 2003
COMMITTEE REPORT
STATE GOVERNMENT
Final Bill Action: HOUSE FILE 593, 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.
Recommendation: AMEND AND DO PASS, AS PROVIDED IN AMENDMENT S-3162.
Final Vote: Ayes, 13: Zieman, Sievers, Kibbie, Black, Courtney, Dearden, Drake,
Johnson, Ragan, Schuerer, Shull, Tinsman, and Veenstra. Nays, none. Absent, 2:
Connolly and Lamberti.
Fiscal Note: NOT REQUIRED UNDER JOINT RULE 17.
EXPLANATION OF VOTES
MADAM PRESIDENT: I was necessarily absent from the Senate chamber on April 7,
2003, when the votes were taken on Senate Files 237 and 438, House Files 456 and
601, and the En Bloc Confirmation Calendar. Had I been present, I would have voted
“Yea” on all. In addition, I was necessarily absent when the vote was taken on Senate
File 399. Had I been present, I would have voted “Nay.”
MIKE CONNOLLY
BILLS ENROLLED, SIGNED, AND SENT TO GOVERNOR
The Secretary of the Senate submitted the following report:
MADAM PRESIDENT: The Secretary of the Senate respectfully reports that the
following resolution and bills have been enrolled, signed by the President of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House, and presented to the Governor for his approval on this
8th day of April, 2003:
Senate Joint Resolution 1.
Senate File 134.
Senate File 224.
Senate File 401.
Senate File 436.
MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
Secretary of the Senate
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League of Women Voters of Iowa
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