House File 2005 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  HEDDENS and WESSEL=KROESCHELL


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the number of eligible electors' signatures
  2    necessary in a school district to propose at a regular
  3    election the question of providing free textbooks for the use
  4    of the school district's pupils.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  6 TLSB 5102HH 81
  7 kh/je/5

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 301.24, Code 2005, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    301.24  PETITION == ELECTION.
  1  4    Whenever a petition signed by one hundred eligible electors
  1  5 residing in the school district or a number of eligible
  1  6 electors residing in the school district equal in number to at
  1  7 least ten percent of the registered number of voters in the
  1  8 last preceding regular school district, to be determined by
  1  9 the school board of any school district, shall be election,
  1 10 whichever is greater, is filed with the secretary thirty days
  1 11 or more before the regular election, asking that the question
  1 12 of providing free textbooks for the use of pupils in the
  1 13 public schools thereof school district's attendance centers be
  1 14 submitted to the voters at the next regular election, the
  1 15 secretary shall cause notice of such proposition to be given
  1 16 in the notice of such election.
  1 17                           EXPLANATION
  1 18    This bill provides that a petition asking that the question
  1 19 of providing free textbooks to a school district's pupils be
  1 20 submitted to the voters at the next regular election must be
  1 21 signed by the greater of 100 eligible electors residing in the
  1 22 school district or a number of eligible electors equal to 10
  1 23 percent of the number of voters in the last preceding regular
  1 24 school election.  The Code currently requires the signatures
  1 25 of at least 10 percent of the registered voters in the school
  1 26 district on such a petition.
  1 27 LSB 5102HH 81
  1 28 kh:nh/je/5.1