SJR 7 (LSB 1195SV (4) 89)

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.
  SUBMISSION TO ELECTORATE.
  The foregoing proposed  amendment, having been adopted and agreed to by the 88th  General Assembly, 2019 Session, thereafter duly published, and  now adopted and agreed to by the 89th General Assembly in this  joint resolution, shall be submitted to the people of the state  of Iowa at the general election in November of the year 2022 in 

 the manner required by the Constitution of the State of Iowa  and the laws of the state of Iowa. 

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JAKE CHAPMAN
President of the Senate

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PAT GRASSLEY
Speaker of the House

   I hereby certify that this joint resolution originated in the Senate and is known as Senate Joint Resolution 7, Eighty-ninth General Assembly.

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W. CHARLES SMITHSON
Secretary of the Senate