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Bills › 90th General Assembly

HF 2385Died when the session ended · February 8, 2024

Relating to the automatic mailing of ballots, and including applicability provisions

Topics:Elections & votingCities & counties

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Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2024
  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 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary Instead of waiting for people to ask for them, election officials would automatically mail absentee ballots to every registered voter before an election. The new rules also require officials to provide instructions so voters can track their ballots online and confirm when they have been received. These changes would apply to all elections held on or after July 1, 2024.1

Read the official explanation

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 special precinct election board must convene starting on November to begin counting ballots. 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. The bill applies to all elections taking place on or after July 1, 2024.

Full bill text2

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§22.7§48A.10A§53.1§53.10§53.12§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

How the Code works3

Lobbying

2 for · 2 against · 1 undecided · Who →

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Tried before

HF 2256Cleared committee88th GA

90th General Assembly

HF 2385Cleared committee

Picked up later

HF 188Cleared committee91st GA

Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.

Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

  • HF 2256 Relating to the automatic mailing of ballots and including applicability provisions
    88th General Assembly · In committee · very similar
    Cleared committee

Similar bills this General Assembly

  • HF 188 Relating to the automatic mailing of ballots, and including applicability provisions
    91st General Assembly · In committee
    Nearly identical

Matched by wording or an identical title.