Bill Text: IA SF328 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act related to absentee ballot deadlines. (Formerly SSB 1173.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-02 - Referred to State Government. S.J. 769. [SF328 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF328-Introduced.html

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Senate File 328 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON STATE
                                     GOVERNMENT

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                     1173)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act related to absentee ballot deadlines.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 53.17, subsection 2, Code 2015, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  In order for the ballot to be counted, the return
  1  4 envelope must be received in the commissioner's office before
  1  5 the polls close on election day or must be clearly postmarked
  1  6 by an officially authorized postal service not later than the
  1  7 day before the election and received by the commissioner not
  1  8 later than noon on the Monday following the election or must
  1  9  be clearly postmarked by received by the commissioner through
  1 10  an officially authorized postal service not later than 5:00
  1 11 p.m. on the day before after the election and received by the
  1 12 commissioner not later than noon on the Monday following the
  1 13 election.
  1 14                           EXPLANATION
  1 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 16 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 17    This bill relates to absentee ballot deadlines. Under
  1 18 current law, an absentee ballot received by a county
  1 19 commissioner of elections is valid if it is received by the
  1 20 commissioner before the polls close on election day or if it is
  1 21 clearly postmarked by an officially authorized postal service
  1 22 not later than the day before the election and is received by
  1 23 the commissioner not later than noon on the Monday following
  1 24 the election. Under the bill, for an absentee ballot to be
  1 25 counted it must be received in the commissioner's office
  1 26 before the polls close on election day or it must be clearly
  1 27 postmarked not later than the day before the election and be
  1 28 received by the commissioner by noon on the Monday following
  1 29 the election or it must be received by the commissioner through
  1 30 an officially authorized postal service not later than 5:00
  1 31 p.m. on the day after the election.
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