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97B.8 Investment board.

A board is established to be known as the "Investment Board of the Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System", referred to in this chapter as the "board", whose duties are to establish policy for the department in matters relating to the investment of the trust funds of the Iowa public employees' retirement system. At least annually the board shall review the investment policies and procedures used by the department under section 97B.7, subsection 2, paragraph "b", and shall hold a public meeting on the investment policies and investment performance of the fund. Following its review and the public meeting, the board shall establish an investment policy and goal statement which shall direct the investment activities of the department. The development of the investment policy and goal statement and its subsequent execution shall be performed cooperatively between the board and the department.

The board consists of nine members. Six of the members shall be appointed by the governor. One member shall be an executive of a domestic life insurance company, one an executive of a state or national bank operating within the state of Iowa, one an executive of an industrial corporation located within the state of Iowa, and three shall be members of the system, one of whom is an active member who is an employee of a school district, area education agency, or merged area, one of whom is an active member who is not an employee of a school district, area education agency, or merged area, and one of whom is a retired member of the system. The president of the senate, after consultation with the majority leader and the minority leader of the senate, shall appoint one member from the membership of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint one member from the membership of the house. The two members appointed by the president of the senate, after consultation with the majority leader and the minority leader of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives and the two active members of the system appointed by the governor are ex officio members of the board. The director of the department of personnel is an ex officio, nonvoting member of the board. Five voting members of the board shall constitute a quorum.

The members who are executives of a domestic life insurance company, a state or national bank, and a major industrial corporation, and the member who is a retired member of the system, shall be paid their actual expenses incurred in performance of their duties and shall receive a per diem as specified in section 7E.6 for each day of service not exceeding forty days per year. Legislative members shall be paid the per diem specified in section 2.10, subsection 5, for each day of service, and their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The per diem and expenses of the legislative members shall be paid from funds appropriated under section 2.12. The members who are active members of the system and the director of the department shall be paid their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as members of the board and performance of their duties as members of the board shall not affect their salaries, vacations, or leaves of absence for sickness or injury. The appointive terms of the members appointed by the governor are for a period of six years beginning and ending as provided in section 69.19. If there is a vacancy in the membership of the board, the governor has the power of appointment. Appointees to this board are subject to confirmation by the senate.

Section History: Early form

[C46, 50, § 97.5; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 97B.8; 82 Acts, ch 1261, § 11]

Section History: Recent form

85 Acts, ch 190, §2; 86 Acts, ch 1243, § 3; 86 Acts, ch 1244, § 20; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 254; 88 Acts, ch 1242, § 14; 90 Acts, ch 1223, § 17; 91 Acts, ch 258, §28; 92 Acts, ch 1201, § 11, 12; 93 Acts, ch 44, § 3

Internal References

Referred to in § 19A.1, 97B.1

Footnotes

Confirmation, see § 2.32


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