Bill Text: IA HSB114 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to allowable precinct consolidations completed by a county commissioner of elections.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (N/A - Dead) 2017-02-23 - Committee report, recommending amendment and passage. H.J. 465. [HSB114 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HSB114-Introduced.html
House Study Bill 114 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON RIZER) A BILL FOR An Act relating to allowable precinct consolidations completed 1 by a county commissioner of elections. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 2139YC (3) 87 aw/sc
H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 49.11, subsection 3, paragraph d, 1 subparagraph (2), Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 2 (2) The consolidated precincts, if established as a 3 permanent precinct, would meet all requirements of section 4 49.3 , and a combined total of no more than three hundred 5 fifty voters voted in the consolidated precincts at the last 6 preceding similar election except that a consolidated precinct 7 may exceed a total population of three thousand five hundred if 8 determined by the commissioner to be administratively feasible . 9 The commissioner shall notify the voters of a consolidated 10 precinct pursuant to section 49.23. 11 EXPLANATION 12 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 13 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 14 This bill provides that precincts consolidated by the county 15 commissioner of elections may have populations greater than 16 3,500 if the commissioner determines that such a precinct 17 is administratively feasible. Current law prohibits any 18 precinct from having a total population greater than 3,500. 19 The bill also removes the requirement that the commissioner 20 may consolidate only those precincts in which a combined total 21 of 350 or fewer voters voted in the precinct at the preceding 22 similar election. 23 -1- LSB 2139YC (3) 87 aw/sc 1/ 1
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