HJR 2005 (LSB 5646HV (3) 89)

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION  OF THE STATE OF IOWA RELATING TO THE GUBERNATORIAL LINE OF  SUCCESSION. 

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: 
   Section 17 of Article IV of the Constitution of the State of  Iowa is repealed and the following adopted in lieu thereof: 
   Sec. 17.  Lieutenant governor or lieutenant governor-elect  to become or act as governor or governor-elect.  If there is a  temporary disability of the governor, the lieutenant governor  shall act as governor until the disability is removed, or  the governor dies, resigns, or is removed from office. In  case of the death, resignation, or removal from office of the  governor, the lieutenant governor shall become governor for  the remainder of the term, which shall create a vacancy in  the office of lieutenant governor. This section shall also  apply, as appropriate, to the governor-elect and the lieutenant  governor-elect. 
    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 consecutive months  previous to the date of that election. 

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PAT GRASSLEY
Speaker of the House

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JAKE CHAPMAN
President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this joint resolution originated in the House and is known as House Joint Resolution 2005, Eighty-ninth General Assembly.

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MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House