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PAG LIN 1 1 HOUSE FILE 2183 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 RELATING TO THE AUTHORITY OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF A 1 5 SCHOOL DISTRICT TO CHANGE THE NUMBER OF DIRECTORS OR THE 1 6 METHOD OF ELECTION OF DIRECTORS FOLLOWING A FEDERAL DECENNIAL 1 7 CENSUS, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. 1 8 1 9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 10 1 11 Section 1. Section 275.23A, subsection 2, Code 2001, is 1 12 amended to read as follows: 1 13 2. Following each federal decennial census the school 1 14 board shall determine whether the existing director district 1 15 boundaries meet the standards in subsection 1 according to the 1 16 most recent federal decennial census. In addition to the 1 17 authority granted to voters to change the number of directors 1 18 or method of election as provided in sections 275.35, 275.36, 1 19 and 278.1, the board of directors of a school district may, 1 20 following a federal decennial census, by resolution and in 1 21 accordance with this section, authorize a change in the method 1 22 of election as set forth in section 275.12, subsection 2, or a 1 23 change to either five or seven directors after the board 1 24 conducts a hearing on the resolution. If the board proposes 1 25 to change the number of directors from seven to five 1 26 directors, the resolution shall include a plan for reducing 1 27 the number of directors. If the board proposes to increase 1 28 the number of directors to seven directors, two directors 1 29 shall be added according to the procedure described in section 1 30 277.23, subsection 2. If necessary, the board of directors 1 31 shall redraw the director district boundaries. The director 1 32 district boundaries shall be described inathe resolution 1 33 adopted by the school board. The resolution shall be adopted 1 34 no earlier than November 15 of the year immediately following 1 35 the year in which the federal decennial census is taken nor 2 1 later than April 30 of the second year immediately following 2 2 the year in which the federal decennial census is taken. A 2 3 copy of the plan shall be filed with the area education agency 2 4 administrator of the area education agency in which the 2 5 school's electors reside. If the board does not provide for 2 6 an election as provided in sections 275.35, 275.36, and 278.1 2 7 and adopts a resolution to change the number of directors or 2 8 method of election in accordance with this subsection, the 2 9 district shall change the number of directors or method of 2 10 election as provided unless within twenty-eight days following 2 11 the action of the board, the secretary of the board receives a 2 12 petition containing the required number of signatures, asking 2 13 that an election be called to approve or disapprove the action 2 14 of the board in adopting the resolution. The petition must be 2 15 signed by eligible electors equal in number to not less than 2 16 one hundred or thirty percent of the number of voters at the 2 17 last preceding regular school election, whichever is greater. 2 18 The board shall either rescind its action or direct the county 2 19 commissioner of elections to submit the question to the 2 20 registered voters of the school district at the next following 2 21 regular school election or a special election. If a majority 2 22 of those voting on the question at the election favors 2 23 disapproval of the action of the board, the district shall not 2 24 change the number of directors or method of election. If a 2 25 majority of those voting on the question does not favor 2 26 disapproval of the action, the board shall certify the results 2 27 of the election to the department of management and the 2 28 district shall change the number of directors or method of 2 29 election as provided in this subsection. At the expiration of 2 30 the twenty-eight-day period, if no petition is filed, the 2 31 board shall certify its action to the department of management 2 32 and the district shall change the number of directors or 2 33 method of election as provided in this subsection. 2 34 Sec. 2. Section 277.23, Code 2001, is amended to read as 2 35 follows: 3 1 277.23 DIRECTORS – NUMBER – CHANGE. 3 2 1. In any district including all or part of a city of 3 3 fifteen thousand or more population and in any district in 3 4 which the voters, or the board as provided in section 275.23A, 3 5 subsection 2, have authorized seven directors, the board shall 3 6 consist of seven members; in all other districts the board 3 7 shall consist of five members. 3 8 2. A change from five to seven directors shall be effected 3 9 in a district at the first regular election after 3 10 authorization by the voters or the board, or when a district 3 11 becomes wholly or in part within a city of fifteen thousand 3 12 population or more in the following manner: If the term of 3 13 one director of the five-member board expires at the time of 3 14 said regular election, three directors shall be elected to 3 15 serve until the third regular election thereafter; if the 3 16 terms of two directors expire at the time ofsaidthe regular 3 17 election, three directors shall be elected to serve until the 3 18 third regular election thereafter and one director shall be 3 19 elected to serve a term the expiration of which coincides with 3 20 the expiration of the term of the director heretofore singly 3 21 elected. 3 22 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of 3 23 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 3 24 3 25 3 26 3 27 BRENT SIEGRIST 3 28 Speaker of the House 3 29 3 30 3 31 3 32 MARY E. KRAMER 3 33 President of the Senate 3 34 3 35 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and 4 1 is known as House File 2183, Seventy-ninth General Assembly. 4 2 4 3 4 4 4 5 MARGARET THOMSON 4 6 Chief Clerk of the House 4 7 Approved , 2002 4 8 4 9 4 10 4 11 THOMAS J. VILSACK 4 12 Governor
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