Bill Text: IA SSB1124 | 2019-2020 | 88th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act concerning county supervisor representation plans.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (N/A - Dead) 2019-02-06 - Subcommittee: Garrett, Lofgren and Quirmbach. [SSB1124 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2019-SSB1124-Introduced.html
Senate Study Bill 1124 - Introduced SENATE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON EDLER) A BILL FOR An Act concerning county supervisor representation plans. 1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 2 TLSB 1219XC (1) 88 ec/jh
S.F. _____ Section 1. Section 331.206, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code 1 2019, is amended to read as follows: 2 a. The plan used under subsection 1 shall be selected by 3 the board or by a special election as provided in section 4 331.207 . A plan selected by the board shall remain in effect 5 for at least six years and shall only be changed by a special 6 election as provided in section 331.207 . However, a county 7 with a population of sixty thousand or more based on the most 8 recent federal decennial census shall use plan “three” for the 9 election of supervisors. 10 Sec. 2. Section 331.207, subsection 6, Code 2019, is amended 11 by striking the subsection. 12 Sec. 3. TRANSITION PROVISION. Notwithstanding any 13 provision of law to the contrary, a county with a population 14 of sixty thousand or more based on the most recent federal 15 decennial census that does not use plan “three” for the 16 election of supervisors, as defined in section 331.206, as 17 of the effective date of this Act shall not be required to 18 elect supervisors using plan “three” until the election for 19 supervisors following the adoption of a representation plan 20 drawn pursuant to section 331.210A, subsection 2, paragraph 21 “f”, after the redistricting of congressional and legislative 22 districts becomes law following the federal decennial census 23 taken in the year 2020. 24 EXPLANATION 25 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 26 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 27 This bill requires a county with a population of 60,000 28 or more based on the most recent federal decennial census 29 to use plan “three” for the election of county supervisors. 30 Plan “three” requires individual members of the board of 31 supervisors for that county to be elected from single-member 32 equal-population districts. The bill provides that a county 33 with a population of 60,000 or more as of the effective date 34 of the bill that does not use plan “three” for the election of 35 -1- LSB 1219XC (1) 88 ec/jh 1/ 2
S.F. _____ supervisors shall not be required to elect supervisors under 1 plan “three” until the election for supervisors after the 2 adoption of a county supervisor representation plan following 3 the federal decennial census taken in 2020. 4 -2- LSB 1219XC (1) 88 ec/jh 2/ 2
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