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Relating to voting procedures for participants in the Iowa address confidentiality program
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 29, 2019
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- 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 voting by persons participating in the Iowa address confidentiality program, also known as the safe at home program. Under current law, a person participating in the address confidentiality program who wishes to vote must vote absentee by mail. The bill allows such a person to vote in-person absentee at the office of the county commissioner of elections or on election day by furnishing proof of the participant’s participation in the program, which shall be provided by the state commissioner of elections, and providing the designated address assigned by the secretary of state in lieu of the participant’s residential address.
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The bill also allows a participant to furnish the designated address on an application for an absentee ballot at the office of the county commissioner of elections and on an envelope containing a provisional ballot. The bill instructs the state commissioner of elections to adopt rules for the addition of program participants to the appropriate election registers at the request of the program participants.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 29, 2019. It hasn’t reported yet.
- Sen. R. Smith
- Sen. Tony Bisignano DEmail
- Sen. Chris Cournoyer R
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