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House Journal: Page 1842: Monday, April 24, 1995

GOVERNOR'S ITEM VETO MESSAGE
A copy of the following communication was received and placed on
file:
April 24, 1995
The Honorable Ron Corbett
Speaker of the House
House of Representatives
State Capitol Building
L O C A L
Dear Mr. Speaker:
I hereby transmit House File 512, an act appropriating funds to
the Department of Economic Development, The Iowa Finance
Authority, the Wallace Technology Transfer Foundation, Division
of Insurance of the Department of Commerce, the Iowa Seed
Capital Corporation, the International Development Foundation,
the Public Employment Relations Board, and the Department of
Employment Services, making related statutory changes, and
providing an immediate effective date.
House File 512 is, therefore, approved on this date with the
following exceptions which I hereby disapprove.
I am unable to approve the item designated as Section 1,
subsection 3, paragraph g, in its entirety. This item would
appropriate $10,000 to establish a community voice mail pilot
program. While I support the proposed goals of the program, I am
concerned that the concept has not been fully developed to take
into consideration a whole host of security issues, including
the potential for the system to be used for illegal or
inappropriate uses. Further, the amount of funding the
appropriation would provide falls far short of what would be
minimally necessary to establish it even as a pilot program.
I am unable to approve the designated portions of Section 9,
unnumbered and unlettered paragraph 1. These items would
authorize the legislature to be involved in decisions relating
to the staffing and organization of the Department of Employment
Services (DES). Decisions concerning the personnel needs and
structure of DES properly fall within the discretion of the
director of the department. Legislative attempts to encroach
into matters that are the prerogative of the executive branch
can not be approved.
I am unable to approve the items designated as Section 10,
subsections 1 and 2, in their entirety. These items relate to
the operations of workforce development centers and the
management of workers' compensation hearings.  Like the items in
the preceding paragraph, approval of these items would allow the
legislative branch to interfere in decisions that are best made
by the director of the Department of Employment Services. For
that reason, they can not be approved.
For the above reasons, I hereby respectfully disapprove these
items in accordance with Amendment IV of the Amendments of the
1968 to the Constitution of the State of Iowa. All other items
in House File 512 are hereby approved as of this date.
	Sincerely,
	Terry E. Branstad
	Governor

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