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90th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 487: Relating to special elections to fill vacancies in county boards of supervisors and city elective offices, and including applicability 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 special elections to fill vacancies in county boards of supervisors and elective city offices. The bill changes the number of signatures required on a petition to fill a vacancy in the office of county supervisor by a special election from percent of the votes cast in the county for office of president or governor at the preceding general election to percent or the number of signatures required for nomination of a county supervisor, whichever is greater. The bill also changes the signature requirements for a petition to fill a vacancy in an elective city office to percent of the voters who voted for candidates for the office at the preceding regular election at which the office was on the ballot.

Sponsors

State Government committee

Cost

Cost: up to $260,000

Counties that hold special elections for the board of supervisors may make expenditures between $1,000 and $185,000 for each special election held. Cities that hold special elections for elective city offices may make expenditures between $750 and $260,000 for…

In plain words

  1. March 2, 2023Filed in the Senate
  2. March 2, 2023Approved by the Senate committee
  3. March 27, 2023Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  4. June 5, 2023Sent to the Senate State Government committee

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/SF487