H-8234

   Amend House File 2252 as follows:
   1.  Page 4, before line 16 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 53.8, subsection 1, paragraph a, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   Upon receipt of an application for an absentee ballot and immediately after the absentee ballots are printed, but not more than twenty-nine days before the election, the commissioner shall mail an absentee ballot to the applicant within twenty-four hours, except as otherwise provided in subsection 3. The absentee ballot shall be sent to the registered voter by one of the following methods:
   Sec. ___.  Section 53.10, subsection 1, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  Not more than twenty-nine forty-five days before the date of the primary election or the general election, the commissioner shall provide facilities for absentee voting in person at the commissioner’s office. This service shall also be provided for other elections as soon as the ballots are ready, but in no case shall absentee ballots be available under this section more than twenty-nine forty-five days before an election.>
   2.  Page 5, before line 3 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 53.11, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  Not more than twenty-nine forty-five days before the date of an election, satellite absentee voting stations may be established throughout the cities and county at the direction of the commissioner and shall be established upon receipt of a petition signed by not less than one hundred eligible electors requesting that a satellite absentee voting station be established at a location to be described on the petition. However, if a special election is scheduled in the county on a date that falls between the date of the regular city election and the date of the city runoff election, the commissioner is not required to establish a satellite absentee voting station for the city runoff election.
   Sec. ___.  Section 53.42, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   53.42  Voting in person in commissioner’s office.
   Notwithstanding the provision as to time found in section 53.10, any qualified voter in the armed forces of the United States may personally appear in the office of the commissioner of the county of the voter’s residence and there vote an absent voter’s ballot at any time not earlier than forty forty-five days before the primary or general election, as the case may be.>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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MASCHER of Johnson