House File 2252 H-8234 Amend House File 2252 as follows: 1 1. Page 4, before line 16 by inserting: 2 < Sec. ___. Section 53.8, subsection 1, paragraph a, 3 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2018, is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 Upon receipt of an application for an absentee ballot 6 and immediately after the absentee ballots are printed, 7 but not more than twenty-nine days before the election, the 8 commissioner shall mail an absentee ballot to the applicant 9 within twenty-four hours, except as otherwise provided in 10 subsection 3 . The absentee ballot shall be sent to the 11 registered voter by one of the following methods: 12 Sec. ___. Section 53.10, subsection 1, Code 2018, is amended 13 to read as follows: 14 1. Not more than twenty-nine forty-five days before the 15 date of the primary election or the general election, the 16 commissioner shall provide facilities for absentee voting in 17 person at the commissioner’s office. This service shall also 18 be provided for other elections as soon as the ballots are 19 ready, but in no case shall absentee ballots be available under 20 this section more than twenty-nine forty-five days before an 21 election. > 22 2. Page 5, before line 3 by inserting: 23 < Sec. ___. Section 53.11, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 24 2018, is amended to read as follows: 25 a. Not more than twenty-nine forty-five days before the 26 date of an election, satellite absentee voting stations may be 27 established throughout the cities and county at the direction 28 of the commissioner and shall be established upon receipt 29 of a petition signed by not less than one hundred eligible 30 electors requesting that a satellite absentee voting station 31 be established at a location to be described on the petition. 32 However, if a special election is scheduled in the county on a 33 date that falls between the date of the regular city election 34 and the date of the city runoff election, the commissioner is 35 -1- HF2252.4494 (2) 87 ss/jh 1/ 2 #1. #2.

not required to establish a satellite absentee voting station 1 for the city runoff election. 2 Sec. ___. Section 53.42, Code 2018, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 53.42 Voting in person in commissioner’s office. 5 Notwithstanding the provision as to time found in section 6 53.10 , any qualified voter in the armed forces of the United 7 States may personally appear in the office of the commissioner 8 of the county of the voter’s residence and there vote an absent 9 voter’s ballot at any time not earlier than forty forty-five 10 days before the primary or general election, as the case may 11 be. > 12 3. By renumbering as necessary. 13 ______________________________ MASCHER of Johnson -2- HF2252.4494 (2) 87 ss/jh 2/ 2 #3.