HF 356: 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 provisions

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 changes the deadline for a person nominated to fill a ballot vacancy to withdraw by filing a notice in the office of the appropriate county commissioner of elections from days before the date of the election to days before the date of the election.

House subcommittee · named February 20, 2023

• Rep. Bobby Kaufmann (R) · bobby.kaufmann@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Amy Nielsen (D) · amy.nielsen@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. David E. Young (R) · david.young@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 0 for, 2 against

Against: Iowa Minuteman Civil Defense Corps; NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Iowa-Nebraska

In plain words

1. February 20, 2023Filed in the House and sent to the State Government committee
2. February 20, 2023House subcommittee named: Kaufmann, Nielsen and Young
3. February 23, 2023Subcommittee recommended passing it
4. February 24, 2023Approved by the House committee
5. February 27, 2023Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 470