HSB 506 (LSB 5294YC (1) 88)

HOUSE FILE _____ 

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON KAUFMANN)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to governmental bodies and advisory bodies under the open meetings law. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 21.2, subsection 1, paragraphs a, c, e, h, and j, Code 2020, are amended to read as follows:
   a.  A board, council, commission, or other governing body expressly created by the statutes of this state or by executive order of the governor.
   c.  A multimembered body formally and directly created by one or more boards, councils, commissions, or other governing bodies subject to paragraphs paragraph “a” and or “b” of this subsection.
   e.  An advisory board, advisory commission, advisory committee, or task force formally and directly created by the governor or the general assembly to develop and make recommendations on public policy and budgetary issues.
   h.  An advisory board, advisory commission, advisory committee, task force, or other body formally and directly created by statute or executive order of this state or created by an executive order of any measure, including a motion, resolution, amendment, or ordinance, by a political subdivision of this state, one or more boards, councils, commissions, or other governing bodies subject to paragraph “a” or “b”, by a mayor, or by a superintendent of schools if the school board of a school district has expressly authorized the superintendent to act on behalf of the school district, to develop and make recommendations on public policy and budgetary issues to the board, council, commission, or other governing body.
   j.  An advisory board, advisory commission, advisory committee, task force, or other body formally and directly created by an entity organized under chapter 28E, or by the administrator or joint board specified in a chapter 28E agreement, to develop and make recommendations on public policy and budgetary issues to the entity or joint board.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to the regulation of a governmental body under the open meetings law (Code chapter 21).
   The bill amends the definition of governmental body under the open meetings law to specify that only advisory boards, advisory commissions, advisory committees, task forces, or any other body that are formally and directly created by a political subdivision of this state, specified governmental bodies, by a mayor, or by a superintendent of schools if the school board of a school district has expressly authorized the superintendent to act on behalf of the school district, are considered governmental bodies subject to the open meetings law.