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Senate Amendment 3096

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  1  1    Amend House File 224, as passed by the House, as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "Section 1.  Section 37.9, unnumbered paragraphs 1
  1  6 and 5, Code l999, are amended to read as follows:
  1  7    When the proposition to erect any such building or
  1  8 monument has been carried by a majority vote, the
  1  9 board of supervisors or the city council, as the case
  1 10 may be, shall appoint a commission consisting of five
  1 11 or seven members, in the manner and with the
  1 12 qualifications provided in this chapter, which shall
  1 13 have charge and supervision of the erection of the
  1 14 building or monument, and when erected, the management
  1 15 and control of the building or monument.
  1 16    Commencing with the commissioners appointed to take
  1 17 office after January 1, 1952, one commissioner shall
  1 18 be appointed for a term of one year, two commissioners
  1 19 shall be appointed for a term of two years, and two
  1 20 commissioners shall be appointed for a term of three
  1 21 years, or in each instance until a successor is
  1 22 appointed and qualified the terms of office of the
  1 23 commissioners shall be staggered so that all
  1 24 commissioners' terms will not end in the same year.
  1 25 Thereafter, the successors in each instance shall hold
  1 26 office for a term of three years or until a successor
  1 27 is appointed and qualified."
  1 28    #2.  Page 1, by inserting after line 8 the
  1 29 following:
  1 30    "Sec.    .  Section 347.9, Code 1999, is amended to
  1 31 read as follows:
  1 32    347.9  TRUSTEES – APPOINTMENT – TERMS OF OFFICE.
  1 33    When it has been determined by the voters of a
  1 34 county to establish a county public hospital, the
  1 35 board shall appoint seven trustees chosen from among
  1 36 the resident citizens of the county with reference to
  1 37 their fitness for office, and not more than four of
  1 38 the trustees shall be residents of the city at which
  1 39 the hospital is located.  The trustees shall hold
  1 40 office until the following general election, at which
  1 41 time their successors shall be elected, two for a term
  1 42 of two years, two for four years, and three for six
  1 43 years, and they shall determine by lot their
  1 44 respective terms, and thereafter their successors
  1 45 shall be elected for regular terms of six years each.
  1 46 A person or spouse of a person with medical or special
  1 47 staff privileges in the county public hospital or who
  1 48 receives direct or indirect compensation in an amount
  1 49 greater than one thousand five hundred dollars in a
  1 50 calendar year from the county public hospital or
  2  1 direct or indirect compensation in an amount greater
  2  2 than one thousand five hundred dollars in a calendar
  2  3 year from a person contracting for services with the
  2  4 hospital shall not be eligible to serve as a trustee
  2  5 for that county public hospital.
  2  6    Sec.    .  Section 347.12, unnumbered paragraph 3,
  2  7 Code l999, is amended to read as follows:
  2  8    The secretary of the hospital board of trustees
  2  9 shall file monthly on or before the tenth thirtieth
  2 10 day of each month with such board a complete statement
  2 11 of all receipts and disbursements from all funds
  2 12 during the preceding month, and also the balance
  2 13 remaining on hand in such funds at the close of the
  2 14 period covered by said statement.
  2 15    Sec.    .  Section 347.13, subsection 7, Code 1999,
  2 16 is amended by striking the subsection.
  2 17    Sec.    .  Section 347.13, subsection 11, Code
  2 18 1999, is amended by striking the subsection and
  2 19 inserting in lieu thereof the following:
  2 20    11.  Make available to the board of supervisors a
  2 21 statement of all receipts and expenditures from the
  2 22 preceding fiscal year.
  2 23    Sec.    .  Section 347.14, subsection 11, Code
  2 24 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  2 25    11.  Do all things necessary for the management,
  2 26 control and government of said hospital and exercise
  2 27 all the rights and duties pertaining to hospital
  2 28 trustees generally, including but not limited to
  2 29 authorizing delivery of any health care service,
  2 30 assisted or independent living service, or other
  2 31 ancillary service, unless such rights of hospital
  2 32 trustees generally are specifically denied by this
  2 33 chapter, or unless such duties are expressly charged
  2 34 by this chapter.
  2 35    Sec.    .  Section 347.14, Code 1999, is amended by
  2 36 adding the following new subsection:
  2 37    NEW SUBSECTION.  16.  Borrow moneys to be secured
  2 38 solely by hospital revenues for the purposes of
  2 39 improvement, maintenance, or replacement of the
  2 40 hospital or for hospital equipment.
  2 41    Sec.    .  Section 347.30, Code 1999, is amended to
  2 42 read as follows:
  2 43    347.30  NOTICE AND HEARING.
  2 44    A county or city hospital shall serve notice and
  2 45 hold a public hearing before selling or leasing any
  2 46 real property pursuant to sections 347.28 and 347.29.
  2 47 The notice shall definitely describe the property,
  2 48 indicate the date and location of the hearing, and
  2 49 shall be published by at least one insertion each week
  2 50 for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper having
  3  1 general circulation in the county where the property
  3  2 is located.  The hearing shall not take place prior to
  3  3 two weeks after the second publication.
  3  4    Sec.      Section 347A.1, unnumbered paragraph 1,
  3  5 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  3  6    A county having a population less than one hundred
  3  7 fifty thousand may issue revenue bonds for a county
  3  8 hospital as provided in section 331.461, subsection 2,
  3  9 paragraph "e".  The administration and management of
  3 10 the hospital shall be vested in a board of hospital
  3 11 trustees consisting of five or seven members
  3 12 appointed.  Appointments for a five-member board shall
  3 13 be made by the board of supervisors from among the
  3 14 resident citizens of the county with reference to
  3 15 their fitness for office, and not more than two of the
  3 16 trustees shall be residents of the same township.
  3 17 Expansion from a five-member to a seven-member board
  3 18 of trustees shall occur only on approval of a majority
  3 19 of the five-member board of trustees.  The five-member
  3 20 board of trustees shall appoint members to the
  3 21 additional vacancies; one appointee shall serve until
  3 22 the succeeding general election and the other
  3 23 appointee shall serve until the second succeeding
  3 24 general election at which times successors shall be
  3 25 elected.
  3 26    Sec.    .  Section 392.6, unnumbered paragraph 2,
  3 27 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  3 28    Cities maintaining an institution as provided for
  3 29 in this section which have a board of trustees
  3 30 consisting of three members may by ordinance increase
  3 31 the number of members to five or seven and provide for
  3 32 the appointment of one of the additional member in the
  3 33 expansion to a five-member board or two additional
  3 34 members in the expansion to a seven-member board until
  3 35 the next succeeding general or city election, and for
  3 36 the appointment of the one or two other additional
  3 37 member members until the second succeeding general or
  3 38 city election.  Thereafter, the terms of office of
  3 39 such additional members shall be four years.  However,
  3 40 if a city has adopted an ordinance which increases the
  3 41 number of members of the board of trustees to five or
  3 42 seven members and the terms of office of four of the
  3 43 five members or six of the seven members end in the
  3 44 same year, the date of expiration of the term of one
  3 45 of the four members or two of the six members, to be
  3 46 determined by lot, shall be extended by an additional
  3 47 two years."
  3 48    #3.  Title page, by striking lines 1 and 2 and
  3 49 inserting the following:  "An Act relating to the
  3 50 qualifications and terms of commissioners and the
  4  1 management and operation of certain public hospitals."
  4  2    #4.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  4  3 
  4  4 
  4  5                               
  4  6 COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT
  4  7 SHELDON RITTMER, CHAIRPERSON
  4  8 HF 224.201 78
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