Senate Study Bill 3086 



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON QUIRMBACH)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to applications for absentee ballots.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  3 TLSB 5810SC 82
  4 sc/nh/5

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 53.2, subsection 2, Code Supplement
  1  2 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  a.  The state commissioner shall prescribe a form for
  1  4 absentee ballot applications.  However, if a registered voter
  1  5 submits an application that includes all of the information
  1  6 required in this section, the prescribed form is not required.
  1  7    b.  Absentee ballot applications may include instructions
  1  8 to send the application directly to the county commissioner of
  1  9 elections.  However, no absentee ballot application shall be
  1 10 preaddressed or printed with instructions to send the
  1 11 applications to anyone other than the appropriate
  1 12 commissioner.
  1 13    c.  No absentee ballot application shall be preaddressed or
  1 14 printed with instructions to send the ballot to anyone other
  1 15 than the voter.
  1 16                           EXPLANATION
  1 17    This bill provides that a registered voter may submit an
  1 18 application for an absentee ballot on something other than the
  1 19 application form prescribed by the state commissioner of
  1 20 elections if the application submitted contains all of the
  1 21 information required by law.
  1 22 LSB 5810SC 82
  1 23 sc/nh/5