Amend House File 569 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 
   Section 1.  Section 39.3, subsection 7, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   7.  “General election” means the biennial election for national or state officers, members of Congress and of the general assembly, county and township officers, and for the choice of other officers or the decision of questions as provided by law and, where applicable, includes the regular city election described in section 376.1.>
   2.  Page 1, by striking line 10 and inserting <forty days after the vacancy occurs general election of a city, described in section 376.1 as the regular city election,>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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J. SMITH of Dickinson