House File 164 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY T. TAYLOR
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to the membership of the board of directors of
2 a judicial district department of correctional services.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 1 Section 1. Section 905.3, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code
1 2 2015, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph:
1 3 NEW SUBPARAGRAPH. (4) One ex officio, nonvoting member
1 4 shall be chosen from and by the largest statewide public
1 5 employees' organization representing state employees no later
1 6 than January 15 of each year.
1 7 Sec. 2. Section 905.3, subsection 2, Code 2015, is amended
1 8 to read as follows:
1 9 2. Each district board shall have an executive committee
1 10 consisting of the chairperson and vice chairperson and at least
1 11 one but no more than five six other members of the district
1 12 board. Either the chairperson or the vice chairperson shall
1 13 be a supervisor, and the remaining representation on the
1 14 executive committee shall be divided as equally as possible
1 15 among supervisor members, project advisory committee members
1 16 or, citizen members, or ex officio, nonvoting public employee
1 17 organization members and judicially appointed members.
1 18 The executive committee may exercise all of the powers
1 19 and discharge all of the duties of the district board, as
1 20 prescribed by this chapter, except those specifically withheld
1 21 from the executive committee by action of the district board.
1 22 Sec. 3. Section 905.3, subsection 4, Code 2015, is amended
1 23 to read as follows:
1 24 4. Each Except as provided in subsection 1, paragraph "a",
1 25 subparagraph (4), each member of the district board shall
1 26 have one vote on the board. However, upon the request of any
1 27 supervisory member, the vote on any matter before the board
1 28 shall be taken by weighted vote. In each such case, the vote
1 29 of the supervisor representative of the least populous county
1 30 in the judicial district shall have a weight of one unit, and
1 31 the vote of each of the other supervisor members shall have
1 32 a weight which bears the same proportion to one unit as the
1 33 population of the county that supervisor member represents
1 34 bears to the population of the least populous county in the
1 35 district. In the event of weighted vote, the vote of each
2 1 member appointed from a project advisory committee or of each
2 2 citizen member and of each judicially appointed member shall
2 3 have a weight of one unit.
2 4 EXPLANATION
2 5 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
2 6 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
2 7 This bill relates to the membership of the board of directors
2 8 of a judicial district department of correctional services.
2 9 The bill adds a member to the board of directors to be
2 10 chosen from and by the largest statewide public employees'
2 11 organization representing state employees no later than January
2 12 15 of each year.
2 13 The bill further increases the number of members who may sit
2 14 on the executive committee of the board of directors who are
2 15 not the chairperson or vice=chairperson from five members to
2 16 six members.
2 17 The bill specifies that the new member added by the bill is
2 18 a nonvoting member of the board of directors of the judicial
2 19 district department of correctional services and, if appointed
2 20 to the executive committee, a nonvoting member of the executive
2 21 committee of the district board.
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