Bill Text: IA SSB1151 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act related to the establishment of satellite absentee voting stations.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2018-01-22 - Subcommittee reassigned: Segebart, Greene, and Hogg. [SSB1151 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-SSB1151-Introduced.html
Senate
Study
Bill
1151
-
Introduced
SENATE
FILE
_____
BY
(PROPOSED
COMMITTEE
ON
LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
BILL
BY
CHAIRPERSON
GARRETT)
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
related
to
the
establishment
of
satellite
absentee
1
voting
stations.
2
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
53.11,
subsection
1,
paragraph
a,
Code
1
2017,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
a.
(1)
Satellite
absentee
voting
stations
may
be
3
established
throughout
the
cities
and
county
at
the
direction
4
of
the
commissioner
and
shall
be
established
upon
receipt
5
of
a
petition
signed
by
not
less
than
one
hundred
eligible
6
electors
requesting
that
a
satellite
absentee
voting
station
7
be
established
at
a
location
to
be
described
on
the
petition.
8
However,
if
For
a
petition
to
be
valid
under
this
section,
the
9
location
described
in
the
petition
must
be
physically
located
10
in
a
city
with
a
population
of
two
hundred
or
greater,
as
11
determined
by
the
most
recent
federal
decennial
census.
12
(2)
If
a
special
election
is
scheduled
in
the
county
on
a
13
date
that
falls
between
the
date
of
the
regular
city
election
14
and
the
date
of
the
city
runoff
election,
the
commissioner
is
15
not
required
to
establish
a
satellite
absentee
voting
station
16
for
the
city
runoff
election.
17
EXPLANATION
18
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
19
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
20
This
bill
relates
to
the
establishment
of
satellite
absentee
21
voting
stations.
The
bill
requires
that
for
a
petition
to
22
establish
a
satellite
absentee
voting
station
to
be
valid,
the
23
satellite
absentee
voting
station
location
described
in
the
24
petition
must
be
physically
located
in
a
city
with
a
population
25
of
200
or
greater.
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