1999 Summary of Legislation Published by the Iowa General Assembly -- Legislative Service Bureau

ELECTIONS, ETHICS AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE

ELECTIONS, ETHICS AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE LEGISLATION

SENATE FILE 470 - Campaign Finance(full text of act)

BY IVERSON. This Act replaces certain references in Code Chapter 56, the Campaign Disclosure - Income Tax Checkoff Act, with terminology related to "express advocacy," to conform the provisions of the chapter to language contained in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Buckley v. Valeo (1976). Definitions are added in relation to this change in terminology, including definitions for "express advocacy" and for "clearly identified." The Act contains a severability clause.

The Act also creates a bipartisan campaign finance commission to review the campaign finance laws and submit proposed revisions to the next session of the current General Assembly, beginning in January 2000.

The Act takes effect May 18, 1999.

HOUSE FILE 679 - Elections - Sac and Fox Settlement Precinct(full text of act)

BY COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT. This Act requires the county commissioner of elections to redraw the boundaries of the Indian settlement precinct in Tama County to include land (contiguous to the settlement land) added to the settlement land held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior of the United States on behalf of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa.

RELATED LEGISLATION

SENATE FILE 41 -- County Agricultural Extension Councils - Duties and Meetings (Complete summary under LOCAL GOVERNMENT.)

This Act strikes a requirement that each county agricultural extension council publish the date, time and place of election of its members. The same information, along with a sample ballot, is published by the county commissioner of elections before an election.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 15 -- Nullification of Administrative Rule - Preparation of Descriptions of Ballot Issues (Complete summary under STATE GOVERNMENT.)

This Joint Resolution nullifies an administrative rule of the Secretary of State's Office applicable to preparation of a summary describing a constitutional amendment or statewide public measure. The rule nullified requires that the words describing a proposed constitutional amendment or statewide public measure be prepared not less than 150 days before the election. The Joint Resolution takes effect April 26, 1999.

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