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House Journal: Page 1048: Monday, March 30, 1998

appropriation, and providing an effective date, with report of
committee recommending amendment and passage, was taken up for
consideration.
Houser of Pottawattamie offered amendment H-8455 filed by the
committee on education as follows:

H-8455

 1     Amend Senate File 2406, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  By striking everything after the enacting
 4   clause and inserting the following:
 5     "Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  7I.1  DEFINITIONS.
 6     For the purposes of this chapter, unless the
 7   context otherwise requires:
 8     1.  "Community empowerment area" means a geographic
 9   area designated in accordance with this chapter.
10     2.  "Community empowerment area board" or
11   "community board" means the board for a community
12   empowerment area created in accordance with this
13   chapter.
14     3.  "Decategorization project" means a
15   decategorization of child welfare and juvenile justice
16   funding project operated under section 232.188.
17     4.  "Innovation zone" means a local jurisdiction
18   implementing an innovation zone plan in accordance
19   with section 8A.2, Code 1997.
20     5.  "Iowa empowerment board" or "Iowa board" means
21   the Iowa empowerment board created in this chapter.
22     Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  7I.2  IOWA EMPOWERMENT
23   BOARD CREATED.
24     1.  An Iowa empowerment board is created to oversee
25   state and community efforts involving community
26   empowerment areas, including strategic planning,
27   funding identification, and guidance, and to promote
28   collaboration among state and local education, health,
29   and human services programs.
30     2.  The Iowa board shall consist of eleven voting
31   members with eight citizen members and three state
32   agency members.  The three state agency members shall
33   be the directors of the following departments:
34   education, human services, and public health.  The
35   citizen members shall be appointed by the governor,
36   subject to confirmation by the senate.  The
37   appointments of citizen members shall be made in a
38   manner so that all of the state's congressional
39   districts are represented along with the ethnic,
40   cultural, social, and economic diversity of the state.
41   In making appointments, preference shall be given to
42   citizens participating on a community empowerment area
43   board.  Terms of office of citizen members are three

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