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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 and gender balance pursuant
1 18 to subsection 1 applies in a city or a county having a
1 19 population of fifty thousand or more, in a city which is
1 20 contiguous to another city having a population of fifty
1 21 thousand or more, and in a city which is contiguous to another
1 22 city which is in turn contiguous to another city having a
1 23 population of fifty thousand or more.
1 24 EXPLANATION
1 25 This bill requires that the mayor or other appointive
1 26 authority of a city or county make gender balanced
1 27 appointments to local boards, committees, commissions, or
1 28 other multimember appointive bodies and that racially balanced
1 29 appointments shall be made to reflect the ratio of the various
1 30 racial groups to the general population of the city or county.
1 31 The racial and gender balance requirement applies to a city
1 32 or a county having a population of 50,000 or more, in a city
1 33 which is contiguous to another city having a population of
1 34 50,000 or more, and in a city which is contiguous to another
1 35 city which is in turn contiguous to another city having a
2 1 population of 50,000 or more.
2 2 LSB 2167HH 78
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Text: HF00395 Text: HF00397 Text: HF00300 - HF00399 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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