SF 183 (LSB 2291XS (2) 88)

SENATE FILE 183

BY  ZAUN

A BILL FOR

An Act setting the dates for the submission of local public measures to the electors and including applicability provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 39.2, subsection 4, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   Unless otherwise provided by law Except as provided in sections 75.1, 423B.1, or other law, special elections on public measures are limited to the following dates:
    Sec. 2.  Section 75.1, Code 2019, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  3.  A proposition to authorize an issuance of bonds shall only be submitted to the electors on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each year.
    Sec. 3.  Section 423B.1, subsection 5, paragraph a, Code 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  The county commissioner of elections shall submit the question of imposition of a local option tax at an election held on a date specified in section 39.2, subsection 4, paragraph “a” or “b”, as applicable the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The election shall not be held sooner than sixty days after publication of notice of the ballot proposition.
    Sec. 4.  APPLICABILITY.  Notwithstanding section 47.6, subsection 1, paragraph “b”, the governing body of a political subdivision may, by a resolution filed with the county commissioner of elections, remove a public measure from a ballot that is not in compliance with section 75.1, subsection 3, as enacted by this Act, or section 423B.1, as amended by this Act, prior to January 1, 2020.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill requires all propositions to authorize the issuance of bonds by a county, township, school corporation, city, or any local board or commission or the imposition of local option taxes by a city or county to be submitted to electors on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each year. The bill exempts such elections from certain limitations on the withdrawal of public measures from a ballot until January 1, 2020.