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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 2343: Relating to the conduct of elections, including provisions related to absentee ballots, recounts, and contested gubernatorial elections and impeachments, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions

Died when the session ended · The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to the conduct of elections. The bill provides that a political party that this required by statute to publish a notice of a precinct caucus in a newspaper of general circulation may, in lieu of such requirement, publish the notice, action, or other information in its entirety on the political party’s internet site, if the political party maintains an internet site. The bill removes a requirement that nomination papers for an office to be filled by the voters of the county or for the office of county supervisor elected from a district within the county be signed by percent of the party vote in the county or supervisor district, as shown by the last general election, or by at least 100 persons, whichever is less.

Sponsors

State Government committee

Cost

Cost: up to $895,000

The Bill is estimated to increase the cost of absentee ballots by approximately $37,000 during odd-numbered years, $366,000 during even-numbered years that are not presidential election years, and $895,000 during even-numbered years that are presidential elect…

Lobbying · 3 for, 4 against

For: Iowa Minuteman Civil Defense Corps; Kirkwood Institute; Opportunity Solutions Project

Against: Iowa Chapter of Sierra Club; Iowa Newspaper Association; Iowa State Education Association; League of Women Voters of Iowa

In plain words

  1. February 17, 2022Filed in the Senate
  2. February 17, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
  3. April 7, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/SF2343