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House Journal: Page 1058: Monday, March 30, 1998

44   zone or a decategorization project, the initial
45   community empowerment area board shall be the
46   innovation zone board or the decategorization
47   governance board, as appropriate.  In addition to any
48   members of the innovation zone board or
49   decategorization governance board, the initial
50   community empowerment board shall include at a

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 1   minimum, representatives of school districts, county
 2   boards of supervisors, cities, juvenile court
 3   services, public health and human services
 4   administrators in the community empowerment area, and
 5   parents of children living in the area.  If the
 6   composition of the initial board does not comply with
 7   the composition requirements of section 7I.5, the
 8   board shall comply with the composition requirements
 9   on or before June 30, 2000.
10     2.  For an area which is not included in an
11   innovation zone or a decategorization project or for
12   an area desiring to be included in a different zone or
13   project, the area may by mutual agreement be included
14   in a community empowerment area created from an
15   innovation zone or a decategorization project.
16   Otherwise, the area shall comply with requirements for
17   designation of a community empowerment area adopted
18   for this purpose by the Iowa empowerment board.
19     Sec. ___.  TRANSITION BOARD.  For the period
20   beginning on the effective date of this Act and ending
21   December 1, 1998, when the governor shall have
22   completed the appointments to the Iowa empowerment
23   board, the duties of the Iowa empowerment board under
24   section 7I.3, as enacted by this Act, shall be
25   performed by a transition board consisting of the
26   directors of the departments of human services,
27   education, and public health, citizen members of the
28   innovation zone board created in section 8A.2, Code
29   1997, and the six ex officio, nonvoting legislative
30   members of the board.
31     Sec. ___.  EMERGENCY RULES.  The transition Iowa
32   empowerment board, as established by this Act, may
33   adopt emergency rules under section 17A.4, subsection
34   2, and section 17A.5, subsection 2, paragraph "b", to
35   implement the provisions of this Act and the rules
36   shall be effective immediately upon filing unless a
37   later date is specified in the rules.  Any rules
38   adopted in accordance with this section shall also be
39   published as a notice of intended action as provided
40   in section 17A.4.
41     Sec. ___.  FUNDING AUTHORIZATION.  For the fiscal
42   year beginning July 1, 1998, and ending June 30, 1999,
43   the Iowa empowerment board may determine amounts of

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