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Iowa Code § 2.9 (2026)

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1. a. The senate and house of representatives shall each publish a daily journal of the transactions of their respective bodies. The secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house shall each determine the format and manner of the journal’s publication, the procurement procedures for the journal’s publication, and the journal’s distribution for their respective bodies.

b. The secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives shall each preserve copies of the printed daily journals of their respective bodies, as corrected, certify to their correctness, and file them with the secretary of state at the adjournment of each session of the general assembly. The secretary of state shall preserve the original journals of the senate and the house in the manner specified by the majority leader of the senate and speaker of the house.

2. a. The senate and house of representatives shall each publish bills and amendments of their respective bodies. The secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house shall each determine the procurement procedures for the publication of the bills and amendments and the distribution of the bills and amendments for their respective bodies.

b. A bill that seeks to legalize the acts of any official or board or other official body, in regard to any matter of public nature or for any person or persons, company, or corporation, shall not be considered by the senate or house of representatives until the bill is published and distributed to members of the general assembly, and the publication shall be without expense to the state. The senate and house shall not order any such bill published until the secretary of the senate or chief clerk of the house has received a deposit to cover the cost of the publication. The newspaper publication of such bill shall be without expense to the state, and the bill shall not be published in a newspaper until the costs of the newspaper publication have been paid to the secretary of state. [C97, §132; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §13; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §2.9] 86 Acts, ch 1245, §2001; 2003 Acts, ch 35, §9, 49; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §102 \n

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases, 1946–2009 · leading case: State v. Peterson, 663 N.W.2d 417 (Iowa 2003).

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State v. Peterson, 663 N.W.2d 417 (Iowa 2003). “, Criminal Procedure § 2.9(e), at 677 (2d ed.1999) (footnotes omitted); see also Solem v.”

Lindahl v. Howe, 345 N.W.2d 548 (Iowa 1984). · cites it 2× “Widiss, A Guide to Uninsured Motorist Coverage § 2.9 (1969 & Supp. 1981). This court used similar reasoning in striking an exclusion in Rodman v.”

Carlton v. Grimes, 23 N.W.2d 883 (Iowa 1946). · cites it 2× “Section 13, Code, 1939 (section 2.9, Code, 1946). The jdurnals of the Fifty-first General Assembly so filed were introduced in evidence together with photostatie copies of such parts thereof as either par-ty desired to introduce.”

James v. Swiss Valley AG Serv., 449 N.W.2d 886 (Iowa Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 2× “Similarly, appellee’s reliance upon section 2.9, American National Safety Institute, American National Standard Safety Requirements for Storage and Handling of Anhydrous Ammonia (1981) is misplaced.”

Bain v. Hammen (In Re Hammen), 399 B.R. 867 (Bankr. S.D. Iowa 2009). “In the creation of an easement by estoppel, the Iowa Supreme Court relaxed the traditional requirements for a prescriptive easement “in those situations in which the party claiming the easement has expended substantial amounts of labor or money in reliance upon the servient…”

— Iowa Code § 2.9(e) — 1 case

State v. Peterson, 663 N.W.2d 417 (Iowa 2003). “, Criminal Procedure § 2.9(e), at 677 (2d ed.1999) (footnotes omitted); see also Solem v.”

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