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1 1 Amend House File 2627 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 164, by inserting after line 2 the
1 3 following:
1 4 "Sec. . BUDGET PRACTICES BOARD.
1 5 1. A budget practices board shall be established
1 6 by the executive council to determine methodologies to
1 7 prevent future state general fund budget crises. The
1 8 specific duties of the board shall include, but are
1 9 not limited to, the following:
1 10 a. Determining the causes of the present general
1 11 fund budget difficulties.
1 12 b. Answering why the revenue estimating conference
1 13 was unable to predict the drastic decrease in state
1 14 revenues which has occurred.
1 15 c. Determining what and whether different
1 16 budgeting practices could have prevented the budget
1 17 difficulties.
1 18 d. Determining what methodologies or changes in
1 19 the Iowa statutes need to be enacted in order to
1 20 prevent future budget difficulties.
1 21 2. The board shall consist of ten members,
1 22 appointed as follows:
1 23 a. Two members by the speaker of the house of
1 24 representatives.
1 25 b. Two members by the minority leader of the house
1 26 of representatives.
1 27 c. Two members by the president of the senate.
1 28 d. Two members by the minority leader of the
1 29 senate.
1 30 e. Two members by the governor of which one is a
1 31 democrat and one is a republican.
1 32 The board shall be gender balanced. The members of
1 33 the board shall not receive compensation, except for
1 34 necessary and reasonable expenses.
1 35 3. The board may meet as often as it deems
1 36 necessary to complete its work. The board is
1 37 authorized to continue meeting until the end of the
1 38 regular legislative session which begins in January
1 39 2003, or until such longer time or shorter time as
1 40 further authorized in a bill passed by the general
1 41 assembly and signed by the governor.
1 42 4. The board shall report its findings to the
1 43 speaker of the house of representatives, the minority
1 44 leader of the house of representatives, the president
1 45 of the senate, the minority leader of the senate and
1 46 the executive council by January 1, 2003, with its
1 47 recommendations. All recommendations receiving at
1 48 least fifty percent of the vote of the total members
1 49 of the board shall be reported. The board shall have
1 50 cochairpersons, one member from each political party,
2 1 who shall be elected upon the vote of the membership
2 2 of the board."
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2 5
2 6 KREIMAN of Davis
2 7 HF 2627.201 79
2 8 mg/sh
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