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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 69.16B RACIAL REPRESENTATION AND
1 2 GENDER BALANCE ON LOCAL COMMITTEES, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS.
1 3 1. In addition to other qualifications for appointment
1 4 which may be required, when a mayor or other appointing
1 5 authority of a city or county appoints a board, commission,
1 6 committee, or other multimember appointive body of the city or
1 7 county, the membership shall be gender balanced and shall be
1 8 racially balanced to reflect the ratio of the various racial
1 9 groups to the general population of the city or county. If
1 10 the total membership is odd-numbered, a person shall not be
1 11 appointed or reappointed to a board, commission, committee, or
1 12 other multimember body of a city or county if that appointment
1 13 or reappointment would cause the number of members of the body
1 14 of one gender to be more than one-half of the total membership
1 15 plus one. If the total membership is even-numbered, not more
1 16 than one-half of the membership shall be of one gender.
1 17 2. The requirement of racial balance pursuant to
1 18 subsection 1 does not apply in cities or counties having a
1 19 population of less than forty-five thousand.
1 20 3. The requirement of gender balance of members pursuant
1 21 to subsection 1 does not apply to cities having a population
1 22 of less than two hundred fifty.
1 23 EXPLANATION
1 24 This bill requires that the mayor or other appointive
1 25 authority of a city or county make gender balanced
1 26 appointments to local boards, committees, commissions, or
1 27 other multimember appointive bodies and that racially balanced
1 28 appointments shall be made to reflect the ratio of the various
1 29 racial groups to the general population of the city or county.
1 30 The gender balance requirement does not apply to cities
1 31 having a population of less than 250 and the racial balance
1 32 requirement does not apply to cities or counties of less than
1 33 45,000 population.
1 34 LSB 4034HH 77
1 35 tj/cf/24
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