House Amendment 1638


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend Senate File 381, as passed by the Senate, as
     1  2 follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
     1  4 following:
     1  5    <Section 1.  Section 46.3, Code 2007, is amended to
     1  6 read as follows:
     1  7    46.3  APPOINTMENT OF DISTRICT JUDICIAL NOMINATING
     1  8 COMMISSIONERS.
     1  9    1.  The governor shall appoint five eligible
     1 10 electors of each judicial election district to the
     1 11 district judicial nominating commission.
     1 12    2.  Appointments The appointments made by the
     1 13 governor shall be to staggered terms of six years each
     1 14 and shall be made in the month of January for terms
     1 15 commencing February 1 of even=numbered years.
     1 16    3.  No more than a A simple majority of the
     1 17 commissioners appointed by the governor shall be of
     1 18 the same gender.
     1 19    4.  Beginning with terms commencing February 1,
     1 20 2008, there shall not be more than one appointed
     1 21 commissioner from a county within a judicial election
     1 22 district unless each county within the judicial
     1 23 election district has an appointed commissioner and
     1 24 the number of appointed commissioners exceeds the
     1 25 number of counties within the judicial election
     1 26 district.  This subsection shall not be used to remove
     1 27 an appointed commissioner from office prior to the
     1 28 expiration of the commissioner's term.
     1 29    Sec. 2.  Section 46.4, Code 2007, is amended to
     1 30 read as follows:
     1 31    46.4  ELECTION OF DISTRICT JUDICIAL NOMINATING
     1 32 COMMISSIONERS.
     1 33    1.  The resident members of the bar of each
     1 34 judicial election district shall elect five eligible
     1 35 electors of the district to the district judicial
     1 36 nominating commission.  Commissioners shall be elected
     1 37 to staggered terms of six years each.  The elections
     1 38 shall be held in the month of January for terms
     1 39 commencing February 1 of even=numbered years.
     1 40    2.  For terms commencing February 1, 1988, and
     1 41 every six years thereafter, one elected commissioner
     1 42 in each district shall be a woman and one shall be a
     1 43 man.  For terms commencing February 1, 1990, and every
     1 44 six years thereafter, one elected commissioner in each
     1 45 district shall be a woman and one shall be a man.  For
     1 46 the term commencing February 1, 1992, in the
     1 47 odd=numbered districts the elected commissioner shall
     1 48 be a woman and in the even=numbered districts the
     1 49 elected commissioner shall be a man.  For the terms
     1 50 commencing every six years thereafter, the districts
     2  1 shall alternate between women and men elected
     2  2 commissioners.
     2  3    3.  Beginning with the terms commencing February 1,
     2  4 2008, there shall not be more than one commissioner
     2  5 from a county within a judicial election district
     2  6 unless each county within the judicial election
     2  7 district has an elected commissioner and the number of
     2  8 elected commissioners exceeds the number of counties
     2  9 within the judicial election district.  This
     2 10 subsection shall not be used to remove an elected
     2 11 commissioner from office prior to the expiration of
     2 12 the commissioner's term.>
     2 13 #2.  Title page, line 4, by inserting after the
     2 14 word <magistrates,> the following:  <district judicial
     2 15 nominating commissioners,>.
     2 16 #3.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     2 20 KAUFMANN of Cedar
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     2 24 SCHUELLER of Jackson
     2 25 SF 381.701 82
     2 26 jm/gg/8584

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