Prohibiting certain public officials from simultaneously holding more than one elective office and including applicability provisions

This bill prohibits certain public officials from simultaneously holding more than one elective office. Under current law, including provisions of the Constitution of the State of Iowa, common law, and the Code, the simultaneous holding of certain offices is barred, which is known as the doctrine of incompatibility of offices. The Constitution of the State of Iowa bars the simultaneous holding of offices for certain state-level offices. Common law bars the holding of multiple offices where one office is subordinate to the other, or where the duties of the two offices are inconsistent. 11 prohibits statewide elected officials and members of the general assembly from holding more than one elective office at a time, as well as other elected officials from holding more than one elective office at the same level of government at a time. However, the offices of county agricultural extension council and soil and water conservation district commission are exempt from this statutory prohibition.11 applies is required to choose one office in which to serve and resign from all other offices. Failure to do so creates a vacancy in all elective offices to which the person was elected. The bill provides that the statutory prohibition also applies to county board of supervisors and strikes the exemption for the offices of county agricultural extension council and water conservation district commission. Additionally, the bill provides that the requirement to resign from an office if elected to multiple offices also applies to the simultaneous holding of elective offices which results from an appointment to an elective office. The bill applies to the simultaneous holding of elective offices that results from an election or appointment that occurs on or after July 1, 2020.