HSB 591

Topics:Elections & voting Families & human services

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedJanuary 18, 2024
Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 18, 2024
Done: House committeeFebruary 8, 2024
Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
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 Iowa could start a pilot program to help voters with disabilities mark their absentee ballots privately using special technology. This program would allow these voters to request their ballots through the mail. Officials will test the program in certain counties to see if it should be used across the entire state.¹

Read the official explanation

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. The pilot program is repealed on July 1, 2027.

Full bill text²

House subcommittee

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

Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part

1 written public comment to its subcommittee: January 25, 2024 (1) · on the Legislature’s site

Iowa Code it changes

Creates§53.5

How the Code works³

Lobbying

10 for · 0 against · 4 undecided · Who →

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Study bill

HSB 591Cleared committee

90th General Assembly

Picked up later

HF 2118Cleared committee91st GA HF 819Cleared committee91st GA SSB 3047Cleared committee91st GA

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HF 2118 Relating to an absentee ballot marking pilot program for voters with disabilities
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