SJR 18 (LSB 1145SV (7) 88)

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION  OF THE STATE OF IOWA RELATING TO THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO  KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. 

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  The following amendment to the Constitution of  the State of Iowa is proposed: 
   Article I of the Constitution of the State of Iowa is amended  by adding the following new section: 
   Right to keep and bear arms.  Sec. 1A.  The right of the  people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The  sovereign state of Iowa affirms and recognizes this right to be  a fundamental individual right. Any and all restrictions of  this right shall be subject to strict scrutiny. 
    Sec. 2.
  REFERRAL AND PUBLICATION.
  The foregoing proposed  amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa is referred  to the general assembly to be chosen at the next general 

 election for members of the general assembly, and shall be  published as provided by law for three months previous to the  date of that election. 

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CHARLES SCHNEIDER
President of the Senate

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LINDA UPMEYER
Speaker of the House

   I hereby certify that this joint resolution originated in the Senate and is known as Senate Joint Resolution 18, Eighty-eighth General Assembly.

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W. CHARLES SMITHSON
Secretary of the Senate