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HF 2142Died when the session ended · January 28, 2020

Relating to the apportionment of election costs to political subdivisions and including applicability provisions

Topics:Elections & votingCities & counties

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2020
  2. Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
  3. Next: House committee
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

3 provides that for any election that is not a special election called by the governor, general election, or the primary election held prior to the general election, the cost of conducting the election shall be paid by the political subdivision for which the election is held. This bill provides that the cost of the election shall be assessed by the county board of supervisors against each political subdivision for which the election was held. Each such political subdivision is required to be assessed a share of the total cost of the election that is proportionate to the political subdivision’s share of the sum of the total ballot items for all political subdivisions in the county for the election.

Read the full explanation

Under the bill, the amount of each political subdivision’s total ballot items shall be the sum of all public questions, public measures, and public offices of the political subdivision appearing on any individual ballot in the county printed for use in the election. The bill applies to elections held on or after July 1, 2020.

Full bill text1

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§47.3

How the Code works2

Lobbying

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