Senate File 436 - Reprinted





                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  COMMITTEE ON LOCAL
                                           GOVERNMENT

                                       (SUCCESSOR TO SF 316)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to observers at satellite absentee voting
  2    stations.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2439SV 83
  5 sc/nh/5

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 53.11, Code 2009, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  5.  At least seven days before the date
  1  4 that absentee ballots will first be available at satellite
  1  5 absentee voting stations, the commissioner shall notify the
  1  6 county chairperson of each political party of the date, time,
  1  7 and place that each satellite absentee voting station will be
  1  8 in operation in the county, so that the chairpersons may
  1  9 appoint observers to be present at the stations during the
  1 10 hours absentee ballots are available.  No more than two
  1 11 observers from each political party shall be present at any
  1 12 one satellite absentee voting station.
  1 13 SF 436
  1 14 sc/nh/jh/26