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House Resolution 134

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  1  1                HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2             BY  SIEGRIST, RANTS, and MYERS
  1  3 A Resolution honoring Diane E. Bolender upon her retire-
  1  4    ment as Director of the Legislative Service Bureau.
  1  5    WHEREAS, Diane E. Bolender is retiring as the
  1  6 Director of the Legislative Service Bureau after
  1  7 serving in that capacity for nearly 13 years; and
  1  8    WHEREAS, Diane's service at the Legislative Service
  1  9 Bureau has spanned five decades and nearly 35 years;
  1 10 and
  1 11    WHEREAS, Diane began her legislative career working
  1 12 for the Iowa General Assembly in 1967 prior to the
  1 13 time when the General Assembly first began meeting
  1 14 each year in regular session, and when the Legislative
  1 15 Service Bureau was a young central staff agency; and
  1 16    WHEREAS, Diane's academic degree in history,
  1 17 government, and education and her experience working
  1 18 for the Omaha Public Schools as a high school
  1 19 government teacher served her well in preparing her
  1 20 for her drafting, staffing, and research work at the
  1 21 Legislative Service Bureau; and
  1 22    WHEREAS, Diane exhibited her commitment to the
  1 23 General Assembly and the citizens of this state by
  1 24 quickly becoming an expert in the drafting of bills
  1 25 and staffing of committees in the areas of education,
  1 26 education finance, public retirement systems, and
  1 27 state government; and
  1 28    WHEREAS, Diane continually assumed more
  1 29 responsibility throughout her career at the
  1 30 Legislative Service Bureau, becoming a Senior Research
  2  1 Analyst in 1980, assuming the position of Research
  2  2 Division Chief in 1987, being elevated to Deputy
  2  3 Director in 1988, and being named by the Legislative
  2  4 Council as Director in 1989; and
  2  5    WHEREAS, Diane has been an exceptional and much-
  2  6 beloved staff person in the Legislative Service
  2  7 Bureau, continually exclaiming her exuberance for
  2  8 legislative staffing, exercising her devotion and
  2  9 loyalty to the General Assembly as an institution and
  2 10 as a co-equal branch of government, and pursuing her
  2 11 untiring resolve to always prepare the highest quality
  2 12 work products for the General Assembly in the shortest
  2 13 time frame possible; and
  2 14    WHEREAS, Diane has been extremely active in
  2 15 representing the Iowa General Assembly in national
  2 16 legislative organizations, including the Education
  2 17 Commission of the States, the National Conference of
  2 18 State Legislatures, and the Council of State
  2 19 Governments; and
  2 20    WHEREAS, Diane was elected to the highest
  2 21 legislative staff position in the nation as the
  2 22 National Conference of State Legislatures' Staff Chair
  2 23 for 2000-2001, representing more than 30,000
  2 24 legislative staff around the country and endeavoring
  2 25 to serve them through the programs and services
  2 26 offered by this dynamic professional association of
  2 27 legislators and staff; and
  2 28    WHEREAS, Diane's other activities for the National
  2 29 Conference of State Legislatures have included serving
  2 30 as a founding member of the Education Staff Network,
  3  1 serving as the Chair of the Research and Committee
  3  2 Staff Section, serving as Staff Chair of the Assembly
  3  3 on the Legislature and of the Assembly on State
  3  4 Issues, and serving two terms on the Executive
  3  5 Committee; and
  3  6    WHEREAS, Diane has also served as a staff member of
  3  7 the national Executive Committee of the Council of
  3  8 State Governments and worked as the principal
  3  9 legislative staff person and liaison to the Council of
  3 10 State Governments' staff when the Iowa General
  3 11 Assembly hosted the 1992 National Annual Meeting of
  3 12 the Council of State Governments and the 1994
  3 13 Midwestern Legislative Conference Meeting of the
  3 14 Council of State Governments in Des Moines; and
  3 15    WHEREAS, it is fitting that the House of
  3 16 Representatives should recognize Diane's extraordinary
  3 17 and long-term public service, her unsurpassed devotion
  3 18 to the legislature as an institution, her inspiring
  3 19 leadership in the Legislative Service Bureau's
  3 20 fulfillment of its nonpartisan drafting and staffing
  3 21 missions, and her determined attention to the
  3 22 lawmaking functions of the General Assembly; NOW
  3 23 THEREFORE,
  3 24    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
  3 25 That the House of Representatives pay tribute to Diane
  3 26 E. Bolender, Director of the Legislative Service
  3 27 Bureau, for her extraordinary and inspiring
  3 28 accomplishments as the leader and manager of the
  3 29 General Assembly's nonpartisan drafting and staffing
  3 30 agency, and for her devoted service over nearly 35
  4  1 years to the General Assembly and the citizens of this
  4  2 state, and, upon her retirement, wish her the very
  4  3 best in the years ahead; and
  4  4    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Chief Clerk of the
  4  5 House of Representatives prepare an official copy of
  4  6 this Resolution for presentation to Diane E.
  4  7 Bolender.  
  4  8 LSB 7252YH 79
  4  9 rj/cf/24.1
     

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