Senate File 86 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  McKINLEY

                                       (COMPANION TO HF 28 BY ARNOLD)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to determining which county commissioner of
  2    elections shall conduct an election for certain political
  3    subdivisions.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1470SS 82
  6 sc/je/5

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 47.2, subsection 2, Code 2007, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  When an election is to be held as required by law or is
  1  4 called by a political subdivision of the state and the
  1  5 political subdivision is located in more than one county, the
  1  6 county commissioner of elections of the county having the
  1  7 greatest taxable base within the political subdivision shall
  1  8 conduct that election.  However, in the case of the regular
  1  9 school election or any election called by a school district,
  1 10 the county commissioner of elections of the county having the
  1 11 greatest number of registered voters within the school
  1 12 district as of January 1 of the year of the election shall
  1 13 conduct that election.  The county commissioners of elections
  1 14 of the other counties in which the political subdivision is
  1 15 located shall cooperate with the county commissioner of
  1 16 elections who is conducting the election.
  1 17                           EXPLANATION
  1 18    Current law provides that elections involving a political
  1 19 subdivision located in more than one county shall be conducted
  1 20 by the county commissioner of elections of the county having
  1 21 the greatest taxable base within the political subdivision.
  1 22 This bill provides that, for the regular school election or an
  1 23 election called by a school district, the commissioner of the
  1 24 county having the greatest number of registered voters within
  1 25 the school district as of January 1 of the year of the
  1 26 election shall conduct the election.  The bill also applies to
  1 27 the election of merged area boards of directors because these
  1 28 directors are elected at the regular school election.
  1 29 LSB 1470SS 82
  1 30 sc:nh/je/5