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Bills › 88th General Assembly

HF 2256Died when the session ended · February 6, 2020

Relating to the automatic mailing of ballots and including applicability provisions

Topics:Elections & voting

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Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 6, 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

This bill relates to the mailing of absentee ballots. The bill requires county commissioners of elections to automatically mail absentee ballots to all registered voters days before an election and to electronically confirm the receipt of returned absentee ballots. Current law requires registered voters to submit an application prior to receiving an absentee ballot, and provides that commissioners mail absentee ballots not earlier than days before the election. The bill also allows county commissioners to establish drop boxes at which voters or voters’ designees may deposit absentee ballots.

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The special precinct election board must convene starting on November to begin counting ballots. The bill requires the state commissioner of elections to adopt rules regarding security measures for absentee ballot drop boxes. The bill requires voter registration cards and absentee ballots to include instructions on how absentee ballots may be tracked by the voter.3.2, subsection 3, which would relieve a political subdivision from complying with a state mandate if funding for the cost of the state mandate is not provided or specified. Therefore, political subdivisions are required to comply with any state mandate included in the bill.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§22.7§39A.4§48A.10A§53.1§53.10§53.12§53.17§53.18§53.19§53.21§53.22§53.23§53.39§53.45§53.49§53.7§53.8

Repeals§53.2§53.3

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88th General Assembly

HF 2256Cleared committee

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HF 2385Cleared committee90th GAHF 188Cleared committee91st GA

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