SJR 9 (LSB 1881SV (5) 90)

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION  OF THE STATE OF IOWA RELATING TO THE QUALIFICATIONS OF  ELECTORS. 

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   Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution of the State of  Iowa, as amended by the amendment of 1970, is repealed and the  following adopted in lieu thereof: 
   Section 1.  Electors.  Only a citizen of the United States  of the age of eighteen years, who shall have been a resident  of this state for such period of time as shall be provided by  law and of the county in which the citizen claims the citizen’s  vote for such period of time as shall be provided by law, shall  be entitled to vote at all elections which are authorized by  law. However, for purposes of a primary election, a United  States citizen must be at least eighteen years of age as of  the next general election following the primary election. The  required periods of residence shall not exceed six months in  this state and sixty days in the county. 
    Sec. 2.
  SUBMISSION TO ELECTORATE.
  The foregoing proposed  amendment, having been adopted and agreed to by the 89th  General Assembly, Second Session, thereafter duly published,  and now adopted and agreed to by the 90th 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  2024 in the manner required by the Constitution of the State of  Iowa and the laws of the state of Iowa. 

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AMY SINCLAIR
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 9, Ninetieth General Assembly.

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W. CHARLES SMITHSON
Secretary of the Senate