Senate Amendment 3181


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 848, as passed by the House, as
     1  2 follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 6, by inserting after line 32 the
     1  4 following:
     1  5    <Sec.    .  Section 49.31, subsection 1, unnumbered
     1  6 paragraph 2, Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
     1  7    The commissioner shall determine the order of
     1  8 political parties and nonparty political organizations
     1  9 on the ballot.  The sequence shall be the same for
     1 10 each office on the ballot and for each precinct in the
     1 11 county voting in the election.  For the order of
     1 12 political parties in successive elections, the
     1 13 commissioner shall alternate the order determined in
     1 14 the last preceding election.  A commissioner who
     1 15 succeeds to that office shall discern the order of
     1 16 political parties on the ballot determined by the
     1 17 previous commissioner and shall alternate the order as
     1 18 required by this paragraph.
     1 19    Sec.    .  Section 49.31, Code 2007, is amended by
     1 20 adding the following new subsection:
     1 21    NEW SUBSECTION.  8.  For purposes of this section,
     1 22 "political party" means political party as defined by
     1 23 section 43.2.>
     1 24 #2.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     1 28 JOHN PUTNEY
     1 29 HF 848.201 82
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