House Amendment 1398 PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 777 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the 1 3 following: 1 4 <Section 1. Section 6B.14, subsection 2, Code 1 5 2009, is amended to read as follows: 1 6 2. Prior to the meeting of the commission, the 1 7 commission or a commissioner shall not communicate 1 8 with the applicant, property owner, or tenant, or 1 9 their agents, regarding the condemnation proceedings. 1 10 The commissioners shall meet in open session to view 1 11 the property and to receive evidence,but mayand 1 12 shall deliberate and vote inclosedopen session. 1 13When deliberating in closed session, the meeting is 1 14 closed to all persons who are not commissioners except 1 15 for personnel from the sheriff's office if such 1 16 personnel is requested by the commission.After 1 17 deliberations commence, the commission and each 1 18 commissioner is prohibited from communicating with any 1 19 party to the proceeding unless such communication 1 20 occurs in the presence of or with the consent of the 1 21 property owner and the other parties who appeared 1 22 before the commission or their agents.However, if 1 23 the commission is deliberating in closed session, and 1 24 after deliberations commence the commission requires 1 25 further information from a party or a witness, the 1 26 commission shall notify the property owner and the 1 27 acquiring agency that they are allowed to attend the 1 28 meeting at which such additional information shall be 1 29 provided but only for that period of time during which 1 30 the additional information is being provided. The 1 31 property owner and the acquiring agency shall be given 1 32 a reasonable opportunity to attend the meeting.The 1 33 commission shall keep minutes of all its meetings 1 34 showing the date, time, and place, the members 1 35 present, and the action taken at each meeting. The 1 36 minutes shall show the results of each vote taken and 1 37 information sufficient to indicate the vote of each 1 38 member present.The vote of each member present shall 1 39 be made public at the open session.The minutes shall 1 40 be public records open to public inspection.> 1 41 #2. Page 5, by inserting after line 15 the 1 42 following: 1 43 <Sec. . NEW SECTION. 21.12 CONDEMNATION 1 44 PROCEEDINGS == DELIBERATIONS. 1 45 Compensation commissioners shall meet, deliberate, 1 46 and vote in open session when condemning private land 1 47 through the process established in chapter 6B pursuant 1 48 to section 6B.14, subsection 2.> 1 49 #3. By renumbering as necessary. 1 50 2 1 2 2 2 3 KAUFMANN of Cedar 2 4 2 5 2 6 2 7 GRASSLEY of Butler 2 8 2 9 2 10 2 11 TYMESON of Madison 2 12 HF 777.501 83 2 13 rh/rj/23324 -1-