Hardin County ballot — November 3, 2026

Shall the following amendment to the Constitution be adopted? Provides that any bill to increase the individual income tax rate or the corporate income tax rate, or the rate of any other type of tax based upon income or legal and special reserves, shall require the affirmative votes of at least two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the legislature for passage. Further, the two-thirds majority vote requirement applies to the passage of a bill to establish a new tax on any type of income or legal and special reserves imposed by the state. The requirement excludes taxes imposed at the option of a local government. A lawsuit challenging the proper enactment of a bill under this section must be filed no later than one year following the enactment. The Constitution of the State of Iowa is amended by adding the following new section to new Article XIII: Passage of a bill that increases the individual income tax rate or the corporate income tax rate, or the rate of any other type of tax based upon income or legal and special reserves, shall require the affirmative votes of at least two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the general assembly. This requirement does not apply to taxes imposed at the option of a local government. Passage of a bill that establishes a new tax on any type of income or legal and special reserves imposed by the state shall require the affirmative votes of at least two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the general assembly. A lawsuit challenging the proper enactment of a bill under this section must be filed no later than one year following the enactment. If such a lawsuit is not filed within the one-year limit, the bill shall be considered properly enacted under this section. Each bill to which this section applies must include a separate provision describing the requirements for enactment prescribed by this section. The general assembly shall enact laws to implement this section.

SHALL THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC MEASURE BE ADOPTED? The Board of Supervisors in the County of Hardin, State of Iowa, for the purpose of raising $1,200,000 annually to support Emergency Medical Services in the county pursuant to Iowa Code Chapter 422D, for a period of seven (7) years, shall impose an Emergency Medical Services ad valorem property tax Levy annually in an amount not to exceed One Dollar ($1.00) per One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) of assessed valuation on all taxable property within the county, beginning the first fiscal year after the fiscal year in which the election was held; Hardin County shall establish an emergency medical services trust fund into which revenues received from the taxes shall be deposited; the resulting revenues collected by Hardin County from each township and city in the county, respectively, shall be distributed by Hardin County to each township and city in the county, respectively, to be expended by each township and city in the county, respectively, as determined by each township and city in the county for purposes authorized under Iowa Code Chapter 422D.

Shall the Board of Directors of the AGWSR Community School District in the Counties of Butler, Franklin, Grundy, and Hardin, State of Iowa, be authorized to contract indebtedness and issue General Obligation Bonds in an amount not to exceed $10,820,000 to provide funds to remodel, repair, improve, and equip the high school, including science and family & consumer science classrooms and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), mechanical, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and site improvements; to build, furnish, and equip a multipurpose activities/recess facility, including site improvements; and to remodel, repair, improve, and equip the middle school locker rooms?