90th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026
HF 470: 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
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 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.
Sponsors
State Government committee
Cost
No fiscal note
House subcommittee · named January 10, 2024
- 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
- February 27, 2023Filed in the House
- January 10, 2024House subcommittee named: Kaufmann, Nielsen and Young
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/90/HF470