Senate File 196

                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  McCOY


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to rotation of judges' names on the ballots in
  2    certain counties.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2823SS 80
  5 sc/sh/8

PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 46.21, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code
  1  2 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    At least sixty=nine days before each judicial election, the
  1  4 state commissioner of elections shall certify to the county
  1  5 commissioner of elections of each county a list of the judges
  1  6 of the supreme court, court of appeals, and district court
  1  7 including district associate judges, full=time associate
  1  8 juvenile judges, and full=time associate probate judges, and
  1  9 clerks of the district court to be voted on in each county at
  1 10 that election.  The county commissioner of elections shall
  1 11 place the names upon the ballot in the order in which they
  1 12 appear in the certificate, unless only one county is voting
  1 13 thereon.  The state commissioner of elections shall rotate the
  1 14 names in the certificate by county, or the county commissioner
  1 15 of elections shall rotate them upon the ballot by precinct if
  1 16 only one county is voting thereon.  The names of all judges
  1 17 and clerks to be voted on shall be placed upon one ballot,
  1 18 which shall be in substantially the following form:
  1 19                           EXPLANATION
  1 20    This bill strikes the requirement that the names of judges
  1 21 standing for retention be rotated on the ballot if only one
  1 22 county is voting on retention of the judges named.
  1 23 LSB 2823SS 80
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