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House Amendment 1609

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend the amendment, H-1600, to House File 700 as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 1, by inserting after line 3, the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    ""Sec.    .  Section 331.235, subsection 3, Code
  1  6 2003, as amended by 2003 Iowa Acts, Senate File 390,
  1  7 section 5, if enacted, is amended to read as follows:
  1  8    3.  Within twenty months after organization, the
  1  9 commission shall submit the final report to the board.
  1 10 If the commission is created pursuant to section
  1 11 331.264, subsection 4, the commission shall submit the
  1 12 final report to the board within five months after
  1 13 submission of the preliminary report to the board
  1 14 pursuant to section 331.264, subsection 3.  A
  1 15 commission created pursuant to section 331.264,
  1 16 subsection 4, may adopt a motion granting itself a
  1 17 sixty-day extension of time for submission of its
  1 18 final report.  If the commission recommends a charter
  1 19 including a form of government other than the existing
  1 20 form of government, the final report shall include the
  1 21 full text and an explanation of the proposed charter,
  1 22 a statement of alternatives considered including but
  1 23 not limited to the potential for agreements under
  1 24 chapter 28E, a statement of whether the elected
  1 25 officers shall be elected on a partisan or nonpartisan
  1 26 basis, an analysis of the fiscal impact of the
  1 27 proposed charter, any comments deemed desirable by the
  1 28 commission, and any minority reports.  The final
  1 29 report may recommend no change to the existing form of
  1 30 government and that no charter be submitted to the
  1 31 electorate, in which case, the report shall state the
  1 32 reasons for and against a change in the existing form
  1 33 of government.  The final report shall be made
  1 34 available to the residents of the county upon request.
  1 35 A  summary of the final report shall be published in
  1 36 the official newspapers of the county and in a
  1 37 newspaper of general circulation in each participating
  1 38 city." 
  1 39 
  1 40 
  1 41                               
  1 42 HOGG of Linn 
  1 43 HF 700.716 80
  1 44 sc/cl
     

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