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SF 23Died when the session ended · January 9, 2023

Requiring primary elections for the nomination of candidates for city, school district, and merged area elections, and including applicability provisions

Topics:Elections & votingCities & counties

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Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 9, 2023
  2. Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 12, 2023
  3. Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  4. Next: Passes the Senate
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  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

AI summary People running for office in cities, school districts, and merged areas would have to be chosen through primary elections. This change replaces the current system where candidates are picked through petitions or runoff elections. Political parties would also start holding conventions to pick members for school district committees to help run these new primaries.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 S.F. 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 requires political parties in school districts to hold conventions for the nomination of members to the school district central committee for the purpose of holding primary elections in school districts and merged areas. The bill applies to elections held on or after January 1, 2025.

Full bill text2

Senate subcommittee

Named January 12, 2023. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Creates§277.10§277.11§277.12§277.13§277.14§277.15§277.16§277.17§277.18§277.19§277.8§277.9

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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Lobbying

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Tried before

SF 2238Cleared committee89th GA

90th General Assembly

SF 23Cleared committee

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

  • SF 2238 Requiring primary elections for the nomination of candidates for city, school district, an…
    89th General Assembly · In committee · same title
    Cleared committee

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