Amend House File 569 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 
   Section 1.  Section 43.24, subsection 1, paragraph b, Code 2011, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph:
   NEW SUBPARAGRAPH.  (2A)  Objections to nominations to fill vacancies in the office of representative in Congress at a special election held under section 69.14 shall be filed with the state commissioner not less than sixty days prior to the date set for the special election.
   Sec. ___.  Section 43.24, subsection 1, paragraph b, subparagraph (3), Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   (3)  Objections to nominations to fill vacancies in the general assembly at a special election held under section 69.14, under which the forty-day notice of election provision applies, shall be filed with the state commissioner not less than fifteen days prior to the date set for the special election. If the forty-day notice provision does not apply, objections to nominations to fill vacancies at a special election held under section 69.14 may be filed any time prior to the date set for the special election.
   Sec. ___.  Section 43.24, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  If an objection is filed to a nomination to fill a vacancy in the general assembly at a special election held under section 69.14, under which the forty-day notice of election provision of section 69.14 does not apply, notice of the objection shall be made to the candidate by the state commissioner as soon as practicable. Under this paragraph, failure to notify a candidate of an objection to the candidate’s nomination prior to the date set for the special election does not invalidate the hearing conducted under subsection 3. The hearing to an objection shall proceed as quickly as possible to expedite the special election.
   Sec. ___.  Section 43.88, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   43.88  Certification of nominations.
   1.  Nominations made by state, district, and county conventions, shall, under the name, place of residence, and post office address of the nominee, and the office to which nominated, and the name of the political party making the nomination, be forthwith certified to the proper officer by the chairperson and secretary of the convention, or by the committee, as the case may be, and if such certificate is received in time, the names of such nominees shall be printed on the official ballot the same as if the nomination had been made in the primary election.
   2.  Nominations made to fill vacancies in the office of representative in Congress at a special election shall be certified to the state commissioner not less than sixty-two days prior to the date set for the special election. Nominations made to fill vacancies in other offices to which this chapter applies at a special election shall be certified to the proper official not less than twenty-five days prior to the date set for the special election. In the event the special election is to fill a vacancy in the general assembly while it is in session or within forty-five days of the convening of any session, the nomination shall be certified not less than fourteen days before the date of the special election.
   3.  Nominations certified to the proper official under this section shall be accompanied by an affidavit executed by the nominee in substantially the form required by section 43.67.
   Sec. ___.  Section 44.4, subsection 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  Nominations made pursuant to this chapter and chapter 45 which are required to be filed in the office of the state commissioner shall be filed in that office not more than ninety-nine days nor later than 5:00 p.m. on the eighty-first day before the date of the general election to be held in November. Nominations made for a special election called pursuant to section 69.14 to fill vacancies in the general assembly shall be filed by 5:00 p.m. not less than twenty-five days before the date of an election called upon at least forty days’ notice and not less than fourteen days before the date of an election called upon at least eighteen days’ notice. Nominations made to fill vacancies in the office of representative in Congress at a special election shall be certified to the state commissioner not less that sixty-two days prior to the date set for the special election. Nominations made for a special election called pursuant to section 69.14A shall be filed by 5:00 p.m. not less than twenty-five days before the date of the election. Nominations made pursuant to this chapter and chapter 45 which are required to be filed in the office of the commissioner shall be filed in that office not more than ninety-two days nor later than 5:00 p.m. on the sixty-ninth day before the date of the general election. Nominations made pursuant to this chapter or chapter 45 for city office shall be filed not more than seventy-two days nor later than 5:00 p.m. on the forty-seventh day before the city election with the city clerk, who shall process them as provided by law.
   Sec. ___.  Section 44.4, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code 2011, is amended by adding the following new subparagraphs:
   NEW SUBPARAGRAPH.  (2A)  Objections to nominations to fill vacancies in the office of representative in Congress at a special election held under section 69.14 shall be filed with the state commissioner not less than sixty days prior to the date set for the special election.
   NEW SUBPARAGRAPH.  (2B)  Objections to nominations to fill vacancies in the general assembly at a special election held under section 69.14, under which the forty-day notice of election provision applies, shall be filed with the state commissioner not less than fifteen days prior to the date set for the special election. If the forty-day notice provision does not apply, objections to nominations to fill vacancies at a special election held under section 69.14 may be filed any time prior to the date set for the special election.
   Sec. ___.  Section 69.14, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   69.14  Special election to fill vacancies.
   A special election to fill a vacancy shall be held for a representative in Congress, or senator or representative in the general assembly, when the body in which such vacancy exists is in session, or will convene prior to the next general election, and the. The governor shall order, not later than five days from the date the vacancy exists, a special election, giving not less than seventy-six days’ notice of such election to fill a vacancy in the office of representative in Congress or forty days’ notice of such election to fill a vacancy in the office of senator or representative in the general assembly. In the event the special election is to fill a vacancy in the general assembly while it is in session or within forty-five days of the convening of any session, the time limit provided in this section shall not apply and the governor shall order such special election at the earliest practical time, giving at least eighteen days’ notice of the special election. Any special election called under this section must be held on a Tuesday and shall not be held on the same day as a school election within the district.>
   2.  Title page, line 1, after<vacancies> by inserting <in the office of representative in Congress and>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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J. SMITH of Dickinson