H-1120

   Amend House File 516 as follows:
   1.  Page 2, line 8, by striking <seventeen and one-half> and inserting <seventeen and one-half sixteen>
   2.  Page 21, before line 20 by inserting: 
<DIVISION ___
VOTER REGISTRATION AGE
   Sec. ___.  Section 48A.5, subsection 2, paragraph c, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   c.  (1)  Be at least eighteen years of age. Completed registration forms shall be accepted from registrants who are at least seventeen and one-half sixteen years of age; however, the registration shall not be effective until the registrant reaches the age of eighteen. The commissioner of registration shall ensure that the birth date shown on the registration form is at least seventeen and one-half sixteen years earlier than the date the registration is processed.
   (2)  A registrant who is at least seventeen and one-half years of age and who will be eighteen by the date of a pending election is a registered voter for the pending election for purposes of chapter 53.
   Sec. ___.  Section 48A.11, subsection 3, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  The following questions and statement regarding eligibility shall be included on forms that may be used for registration by mail:
  [1]  “Are you a citizen of the United States of America?”

  [2]  “Will you be eighteen “Are you at least sixteen years of age on or before election day?” age?”

  [3]  “If you checked ‘no’ in response to either of these questions, do not complete this form.”
   Sec. ___.  Section 48A.14, subsection 1, paragraph b, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  The challenged registrant is less than seventeen and one-half sixteen years of age.
   Sec. ___.  Section 48A.23, subsection 1, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  At least twice during each school year, the board of directors of each school district operating a high school and the authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school shall offer the opportunity to register to vote to each student who is at least seventeen and one-half sixteen years of age.
   Sec. ___.  Section 48A.26, subsection 9, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   9.  When a person who is at least seventeen and one-half sixteen years of age but less than eighteen years of age registers to vote, the commissioner shall maintain a record of the registration so as to clearly indicate that it will not take effect until the registrant’s eighteenth birthday and that the person is registered and qualifies to vote at any election held on or after that date.
   Sec. ___.  Section 280.9A, subsection 3, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  At least twice during each school year, the board of directors of each local public school district operating a high school and the authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school operating a high school shall offer the opportunity to register to vote to each student who is at least seventeen and one-half sixteen years of age, as required by section 48A.23.
   Sec. ___.  Section 602.8102, subsection 15, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   15.  Monthly, notify the county commissioner of registration and the state registrar of voters of persons seventeen and one-half sixteen years of age and older who have been convicted of a felony during the preceding calendar month or persons who at any time during the preceding calendar month have been legally declared to be a person who is incompetent to vote as that term is defined in section 48A.2.
   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This division of this Act takes effect January 1, 2018.>
   3.  Title page, line 7, after <fund,> by inserting <lowering the voter registration age,>
   4.  By renumbering as necessary.

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STECKMAN of Cerro Gordo