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Requiring primary elections for the nomination of candidates for city, school district, and merged area elections, and including applicability provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 13, 2024
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- 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 People running for city, school district, or community college offices would have to be chosen through primary elections instead of using petitions or runoff votes. County supervisors would also get to decide if they want to count ballots by hand or use a machine to scan them. These changes would apply to elections held starting in 2026.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to nominations of candidates for elections to city, school district, and merged area offices. The bill requires candidates for such elections to be nominated by primary elections held pursuant to Code chapter (partisan nominations —— primary election). Currently such elections are nonpartisan except for special charter cities under Code chapter 420. The bill repeals other methods for the nomination of candidates, including nominations by petition and runoff elections. The bill allows the board of supervisors of a county to decide whether to conduct an election using an optical scan voting system or by counting ballots by hand. The bill applies to elections held on or after January 1, 2026.
Iowa Code it changes
Amends§260C.15§275.25§277.4§277.5§279.6§279.7§331.383§376.11§376.3§376.4§376.5§376.7§376.8§420.126§420.137§43.112§43.114§43.115§43.116§43.118§43.24§43.78§45.1§49.31§50.48§69.12
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