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PAG LIN 1 1 1 2 HOUSE FILE 224 1 3 1 4 AN ACT 1 5 RELATING TO QUALIFICATIONS AND TERMS OF COMMISSIONERS AND 1 6 THE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC HOSPITALS. 1 7 1 8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 9 1 10 Section 1. Section 37.9, unnumbered paragraphs 1 and 5, 1 11 Code l999, are amended to read as follows: 1 12 When the proposition to erect any such building or monument 1 13 has been carried by a majority vote, the board of supervisors 1 14 or the city council, as the case may be, shall appoint a 1 15 commission consisting of five or seven members, in the manner 1 16 and with the qualifications provided in this chapter, which 1 17 shall have charge and supervision of the erection of the 1 18 building or monument, and when erected, the management and 1 19 control of the building or monument. 1 20 Commencing with the commissioners appointed to take office 1 21 after January 1, 1952,one commissioner shall be appointed for1 22a term of one year, two commissioners shall be appointed for a1 23term of two years, and two commissioners shall be appointed1 24for a term of three years, or in each instance until a1 25successor is appointed and qualifiedthe terms of office of 1 26 the commissioners shall be staggered so that all 1 27 commissioners' terms will not end in the same year. 1 28 Thereafter, the successors in each instance shall hold office 1 29 for a term of three years or until a successor is appointed 1 30 and qualified. 1 31 Sec. 2. Section 37.10, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 1999, 1 32 is amended to read as follows: 1 33 Each commissioner, except for a memorial hospital, shall be 1 34 an honorably discharged soldier, sailor, marine, airman, or 1 35 coast guard member and be a resident of the county in which 2 1 the memorial hall or monument is located. Each commissioner 2 2 for a memorial hospital shall be a resident of the county in 2 3 which the memorial hospital is located. 2 4 Sec. 3. Section 347.9, Code 1999, is amended to read as 2 5 follows: 2 6 347.9 TRUSTEES – APPOINTMENT – TERMS OF OFFICE. 2 7 When it has been determined by the voters of a county to 2 8 establish a county public hospital, the board shall appoint 2 9 seven trustees chosen from among the resident citizens of the 2 10 county with reference to their fitness for office, and not 2 11 more than four of the trustees shall be residents of the city 2 12 at which the hospital is located. The trustees shall hold 2 13 office until the following general election, at which time 2 14 their successors shall be elected, two for a term of two 2 15 years, two for four years, and three for six years, and they 2 16 shall determine by lot their respective terms, and thereafter 2 17 their successors shall be elected for regular terms of six 2 18 years each. A person or spouse of a person with medical or 2 19 special staff privileges in the county public hospital or who 2 20 receives direct or indirect compensation in an amount greater 2 21 than one thousand five hundred dollars in a calendar year from 2 22 the county public hospital or direct or indirect compensation 2 23 in an amount greater than one thousand five hundred dollars in 2 24 a calendar year from a person contracting for services with 2 25 the hospital shall not be eligible to serve as a trustee for 2 26 that county public hospital. 2 27 Sec. 4. Section 347.12, unnumbered paragraph 3, Code l999, 2 28 is amended to read as follows: 2 29 The secretary of the hospital board of trustees shall file 2 30 monthly on or before thetenththirtieth day of each month 2 31 with such board a complete statement of all receipts and 2 32 disbursements from all funds during the preceding month, and 2 33 also the balance remaining on hand in such funds at the close 2 34 of the period covered by said statement. 2 35 Sec. 5. Section 347.13, subsection 7, Code 1999, is 3 1 amended by striking the subsection. 3 2 Sec. 6. Section 347.13, subsection 11, Code 1999, is 3 3 amended by striking the subsection and inserting in lieu 3 4 thereof the following: 3 5 11. Make available to the board of supervisors a statement 3 6 of all receipts and expenditures from the preceding fiscal 3 7 year. 3 8 Sec. 7. Section 347.14, subsection 11, Code 1999, is 3 9 amended to read as follows: 3 10 11. Do all things necessary for the management, control 3 11 and government of said hospital and exercise all the rights 3 12 and duties pertaining to hospital trustees generally, 3 13 including but not limited to authorizing delivery of any 3 14 health care service, assisted or independent living service, 3 15 or other ancillary service, unless such rights of hospital 3 16 trustees generally are specifically denied by this chapter, or 3 17 unless such duties are expressly charged by this chapter. 3 18 Sec. 8. Section 347.14, Code 1999, is amended by adding 3 19 the following new subsection: 3 20 NEW SUBSECTION. 16. Borrow moneys to be secured solely by 3 21 hospital revenues for the purposes of improvement, 3 22 maintenance, or replacement of the hospital or for hospital 3 23 equipment. 3 24 Sec. 9. Section 347.30, Code 1999, is amended to read as 3 25 follows: 3 26 347.30 NOTICE AND HEARING. 3 27 A county or city hospital shall serve notice and hold a 3 28 public hearing before selling or leasing any real property 3 29 pursuant to sections 347.28 and 347.29. The notice shall 3 30 definitely describe the property, indicate the date and 3 31 location of the hearing, and shall be published by at least 3 32 one insertion each week for two consecutive weeks in a 3 33 newspaper having general circulation in the county where the 3 34 property is located. The hearing shall not take place prior 3 35 to two weeks after the second publication. 4 1 A county or city hospital shall serve notice before selling 4 2 or leasing any personal property pursuant to sections 347.28 4 3 and 347.29. The notice shall definitely describe the property 4 4 and shall be published by at least one insertion each week for 4 5 two consecutive weeks in a newspaper having general 4 6 circulation in the county where the property is located. 4 7 Sec. 10. Section 347A.1, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 4 8 1999, is amended to read as follows: 4 9 A county having a population less than one hundred fifty 4 10 thousand may issue revenue bonds for a county hospital as 4 11 provided in section 331.461, subsection 2, paragraph "e". The 4 12 administration and management of the hospital shall be vested 4 13 in a board of hospital trustees consisting of five or seven 4 14 membersappointed. Appointments for a five-member board shall 4 15 be made by the board of supervisors from among the resident 4 16 citizens of the county with reference to their fitness for 4 17 office, and not more than two of the trustees shall be 4 18 residents of the same township. Expansion from a five-member 4 19 to a seven-member board of trustees shall occur only on 4 20 approval of a majority of the five-member board of trustees. 4 21 The five-member board of trustees shall appoint members to the 4 22 additional vacancies; one appointee shall serve until the 4 23 succeeding general election and the other appointee shall 4 24 serve until the second succeeding general election at which 4 25 times successors shall be elected. 4 26 Sec. 11. Section 392.6, unnumbered paragraph 2, Code 1999, 4 27 is amended to read as follows: 4 28 Cities maintaining an institution as provided for in this 4 29 section which have a board of trustees consisting of three 4 30 members may by ordinance increase the number of members to 4 31 five or seven and provide for the appointment of oneof the4 32 additional member in the expansion to a five-member board or 4 33 two additional members in the expansion to a seven-member 4 34 board until the next succeeding general or city election, and 4 35 for the appointment of the one or two other additionalmember5 1 members until the second succeeding general or city election. 5 2 Thereafter, the terms of office of such additional members 5 3 shall be four years. However, if a city has adopted an 5 4 ordinance which increases the number of members of the board 5 5 of trustees to five or seven members and the terms of office 5 6 of four of the five members or six of the seven members end in 5 7 the same year, the date of expiration of the term of one of 5 8 the four members or two of the six members, to be determined 5 9 by lot, shall be extended by an additional two years. 5 10 5 11 5 12 5 13 RON J. CORBETT 5 14 Speaker of the House 5 15 5 16 5 17 5 18 MARY E. KRAMER 5 19 President of the Senate 5 20 5 21 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and 5 22 is known as House File 224, Seventy-eighth General Assembly. 5 23 5 24 5 25 5 26 ELIZABETH ISAACSON 5 27 Chief Clerk of the House 5 28 Approved , 1999 5 29 5 30 5 31 5 32 THOMAS J. VILSACK 5 33 Governor
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