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.AppointmentsThe 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 aA 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. 2 17 2 18 2 19 2 20 KAUFMANN of Cedar 2 21 2 22 2 23 2 24 SCHUELLER of Jackson 2 25 SF 381.701 82 2 26 jm/gg/8584 -1-