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Senate Amendment 5338

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend House File 2515, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1, the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "Section 1.  Section 256.3, Code 2001, is amended
  1  6 to read as follows:
  1  7    256.3  STATE BOARD ESTABLISHED.
  1  8    The state board of education is established for the
  1  9 department.  The state board consists of nine ten
  1 10 members, nine voting members and one nonvoting student
  1 11 member.  The voting members shall be appointed by the
  1 12 governor subject to senate confirmation.  The
  1 13 nonvoting student members shall be appointed as
  1 14 provided in section 256.5A.  The voting members shall
  1 15 be registered voters of the state and hold no other
  1 16 elective or appointive state office.  A voting member
  1 17 shall not be engaged in professional education for a
  1 18 major portion of the member's time nor shall the
  1 19 member derive a major portion of income from any
  1 20 business or activity connected with education.  Not
  1 21 more than five voting members shall be of the same
  1 22 political party.
  1 23    The terms of office for voting members are for six
  1 24 years beginning and ending as provided in section
  1 25 69.19.
  1 26    Three of the state board voting members shall have
  1 27 substantial knowledge related to the community college
  1 28 system.  The remaining six voting members shall be
  1 29 members of the general public.
  1 30    Sec. 2.  Section 256.4, Code 2001, is amended to
  1 31 read as follows:
  1 32    256.4  OATH – VACANCIES.
  1 33    The members of the state board shall qualify by
  1 34 taking the regular oath of office as prescribed by law
  1 35 for state officers.  Vacancies in the voting
  1 36 membership shall be filled in the same manner in which
  1 37 regular appointments are required to be made.
  1 38    Sec. 3.  NEW SECTION.  256.5A  NONVOTING MEMBER.
  1 39    The governor shall appoint one nonvoting student
  1 40 member of the state board for a term of one year
  1 41 beginning and ending as provided in section 69.19.
  1 42 The nonvoting student member shall be appointed from a
  1 43 list of names submitted by the state board of
  1 44 education.  Students enrolled in either grade ten or
  1 45 eleven in a public school may apply to the state board
  1 46 to serve as a nonvoting student member.  The
  1 47 department shall develop an application process that
  1 48 requires the consent of the student's parent or
  1 49 guardian if the student is a minor, initial
  1 50 application approval by the school district in which
  2  1 the student applicant is enrolled, and submission of
  2  2 approved applications by a school district to the
  2  3 department.  The nonvoting student member's school
  2  4 district of enrollment shall notify the student's
  2  5 parents if the student's grade point average falls
  2  6 during the period in which the student is a member of
  2  7 the state board.  The state board shall adopt rules
  2  8 under chapter 17A specifying criteria for the
  2  9 selection of applicants whose names shall be submitted
  2 10 to the governor.  Criteria shall include, but is not
  2 11 limited to, academic excellence, participation in
  2 12 extracurricular and community activities, and interest
  2 13 in serving on the board.  Rules adopted by the state
  2 14 board shall also require, if the student is a minor,
  2 15 supervision of the student by the student's parent or
  2 16 guardian while the student is engaged in authorized
  2 17 state board business at a location other than the
  2 18 community in which the student resides, unless the
  2 19 student's parent or guardian submits to the state
  2 20 board a signed release indicating the parent or
  2 21 guardian has determined that supervision of the
  2 22 student by the parent or guardian is unnecessary.  The
  2 23 nonvoting student member shall be appointed without
  2 24 regard to political affiliation.  The nonvoting
  2 25 student member shall have been enrolled in a public
  2 26 school in Iowa for at least one year prior to the
  2 27 member's appointment.  A nonvoting student member who
  2 28 will not graduate from high school prior to the end of
  2 29 a second term may apply to the state board for
  2 30 submission of candidacy to the governor for a second
  2 31 one-year term.  A nonvoting student member shall be
  2 32 paid a per diem as provided in section 7E.6 and the
  2 33 student and the student's parent or guardian shall be
  2 34 reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred
  2 35 in the performance of the student's duties as a
  2 36 nonvoting member of the state board.  A vacancy in the
  2 37 membership of the nonvoting student member shall not
  2 38 be filled until the expiration of the term."
  2 39    #2.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  2 40 
  2 41 
  2 42                               
  2 43 KITTY REHBERG 
  2 44 HF 2515.703 79
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