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SF 2226Died when the session ended · February 11, 2020

Relating to the establishment of voting centers for elections where city elections and school elections are on the same ballot

Topics:Elections & voting

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2020
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2020
  3. Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  4. Next: Passes the Senate
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  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 establishment of voting centers for elections where city elections and school elections are on the same ballot. The bill allows a county commissioner of elections (commissioner) to establish a voting center for an election in which a city election and a school election are being conducted on the same ballot in a location outside the county of the commissioner if the commissioner determines that the voting center would be beneficial to voters from the county of the commissioner.

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Such a voting center shall be under the control of the commissioner establishing the voting center, shall be established in consultation with the commissioner of the county where the voting center will be located, and shall only be used by voters of the county of the commissioner establishing the voting center.

Full bill text1

Senate subcommittee

Named February 12, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§49.11

How the Code works2

Lobbying

3 for · 0 against · 3 undecided · Who →