Senate File 2035 - Reprinted SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3031) Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to campaign signs and contributions. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5458SV 82 4 jr/rj/24 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 53.10, unnumbered paragraph 3, Code 1 2 Supplement 2007, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 During the hours when absentee ballots are available in the 1 4 office of the commissioner,the posting of political signs is 1 5 prohibited within three hundred feet of the absentee voting 1 6 site. Noelectioneering shall not be allowed within the sight 1 7 or hearing of voters at the absentee voting site. 1 8 Sec. 2. Section 53.11, subsection 4, Code Supplement 2007, 1 9 is amended to read as follows: 1 10 4. During the hours when absentee ballots are available at 1 11 a satellite absentee voting station,the posting of political 1 12 signs is prohibited within three hundred feet of the satellite 1 13 absentee voting station. Electioneeringelectioneering shall 1 14 not be allowed within the sight or hearing of voters at the 1 15 satellite absentee voting station. 1 16 Sec. 3. Section 68A.404, subsection 1, Code 2007, is 1 17 amended to read as follows: 1 18 1. As used in this section, "independent expenditure" 1 19 means one or more expenditures in excess ofseven hundred 1 20 fiftyone hundred dollars in the aggregate for a communication 1 21 that expressly advocates the nomination, election, or defeat 1 22 of a clearly identified candidate or the passage or defeat of 1 23 a ballot issue that is made without the prior approval or 1 24 coordination with a candidate, candidate's committee, or a 1 25 ballot issue committee. 1 26 Sec. 4. Section 68A.404, subsection 3, paragraph a, Code 1 27 2007, is amended to read as follows: 1 28 a. An independent expenditure statement shall be filed 1 29 within forty=eight hours of the making of an independent 1 30 expenditure in excess ofseven hundred fiftyone hundred 1 31 dollars in the aggregate. 1 32 Sec. 5. Section 68A.406, Code Supplement 2007, is amended 1 33 to read as follows: 1 34 68A.406 CAMPAIGN SIGNS == YARD SIGNS. 1 35 1. Campaign signs may be placed with the permission of the 2 1 property owner or lessee on any of the following: 2 2 a. Residential property. 2 3 b. Agricultural land owned by individuals or by a family 2 4 farm operation as defined in section 9H.1, subsections 8, 9, 2 5 and 10. 2 6 c. Property leased for residential purposes including, but 2 7 not limited to, apartments, condominiums, college housing 2 8 facilities, and houses if placed only on leased property space 2 9 that is actually occupied. 2 10 d. Vacant lots owned by aprivate individualperson who is 2 11 not a prohibited contributor under section 68A.503. 2 12 e. Property owned by an organization that is not a 2 13 prohibited contributor under section 68A.503. 2 14 f. Property leased by a candidate, committee, or an 2 15 organization established to advocate the nomination, election, 2 16 or defeat of a candidate or the passage or defeat of a ballot 2 17 issue that has not yet registered pursuant to section 68A.201, 2 18 when the property is used as campaign headquarters or a 2 19 campaign office and the placement of the sign is limited to 2 20 the space that is actually leased. 2 21 2. a. Campaign signs shall not be placed on any of the 2 22 following: 2 23a.(1) Any property owned by the state or the governing 2 24 body of a county, city, or other political subdivision of the 2 25 state, including all property considered the public 2 26 right=of=way. Upon a determination by the board that a sign 2 27 has been improperly placed, the sign shall be removed by 2 28 highway authorities as provided in section 318.5, or by county 2 29 or city law enforcement authorities in a manner consistent 2 30 with section 318.5. 2 31b.(2) Property owned, leased, or occupied by a 2 32 prohibited contributor under section 68A.503 unless the sign 2 33 advocates the passage or defeat of a ballot issue or is 2 34 exempted under subsection 1. 2 35c.(3) On any property without the permission of the 3 1 property owner or lessee. 3 2d.(4) On election day either on the premises of any 3 3 polling place or within three hundred feet of any outside door 3 4 of any building affording access to any room where the polls 3 5 are held, or of any outside door of any building affording 3 6 access to any hallway, corridor, stairway, or other means of 3 7 reaching the room where the polls are held. 3 8e.(5)WithinOn the premises of or within three hundred 3 9 feet of any outside door of any building affording access to 3 10 an absentee voting site during the hours when absentee ballots 3 11 are available in the office of the county commissioner of 3 12 elections as provided in section 53.10. 3 13f.(6)WithinOn the premises of or within three hundred 3 14 feet of any outside door of any building affording access to a 3 15 satellite absentee voting station during the hours when 3 16 absentee ballots are available at the satellite absentee 3 17 voting station as provided in section 53.11. 3 18 b.Paragraphs "d", "e", and "f"Paragraph "a", 3 19 subparagraphs (4), (5), and (6) shall not apply to the posting 3 20 of signs on private property not a polling place, except that 3 21 the placement of a sign on a motor vehicle, trailer, or 3 22 semitrailer, or any attachment to a motor vehicle, trailer, or 3 23 semitrailer parked on public property within three hundred 3 24 feet of any outside door of any building affording access to 3 25 any room serving as a polling place, which sign is more than 3 26 ninety square inches in size, is prohibited. 3 27 3. Campaign signs with dimensions of thirty=two square 3 28 feet or less are exempt from the attribution statement 3 29 requirement in section 68A.405. Campaign signs in excess of 3 30 thirty=two square feet, or signs that are affixed to buildings 3 31 or vehicles regardless of size except for bumper stickers, are 3 32 required to include the attribution statement required by 3 33 section 68A.405. The placement or erection of campaign signs 3 34 shall be exempt from the requirements of chapter 480 relating 3 35 to underground facilities information. 4 1 SF 2035 4 2 jr:rj/cc/26