HSB 591

Where it is now

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   Done: IntroducedJanuary 18, 2024
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   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 18, 2024
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   Done: House committeeFebruary 8, 2024
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   Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
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

This bill allows the state commissioner of elections to adopt rules to establish a pilot program to allow voters with disabilities that prevent such voters from marking ballots by hand to independently and privately mark absentee ballots, including by the use of assistive technology. The bill requires that the program include a method by which such voters can request an absentee ballot by mail. _____ statewide. The bill requires the state commissioner of elections to file a report with the general assembly by December of each year regarding the pilot program established under the bill.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

House subcommittee

Named January 23, 2024. On January 25, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.

• Rep. David E. Young REmail
• Rep. Jon Dunwell R
• Rep. Adam Zabner DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Creates§53.5

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

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Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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Similar bills

• HF 2118 Relating to an absentee ballot marking pilot program for voters with disabilities
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• HF 819 Relating to an absentee ballot marking pilot program for voters with disabilities
  91st General Assembly · In committee
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• SSB 3047 Relating to an absentee ballot marking pilot program for voters with disabilities
  91st General Assembly · In committee
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Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.