Senate File 543 - Enrolled

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1	1	SENATE FILE 543
1	2
1	3	AN ACT
1	4 RELATING TO THE STATE INTERAGENCY MISSOURI RIVER AUTHORITY, BY
1	5	PROVIDING FOR THE PARTICIPATION IN OR WITHDRAWAL FROM
1	6	INTERSTATE ASSOCIATIONS, PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A
1	7	VICE CHAIRPERSON, AND PROVIDING FOR DUTIES OF MEMBER
1	8	AGENCIES.
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1 10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 11
1 12	Section 1.	Section 28L.1, Code 2007, is amended to read as
1 13 follows:
1 14	28L.1	STATE INTERAGENCY MISSOURI RIVER AUTHORITY CREATED
1 15 == DUTIES.
1 16	1.	A state interagency Missouri river authority is
1 17 created.

1 18	1.  a.	The members of the authority

shall include are the

1 19 governor or the governor's designee, and representatives of
  1 20 interested state agencies which include the secretary of
1 21 agriculture or the secretary's designee, the chairperson of
1 22 the utilities board or the chairperson's designee, and the
1 23 directors of the department of natural resources, the state
1 24 department of transportation, and the department of economic
1 25 development or the directors' designees.
1 26	b.	The governor or the governor's designee shall serve as
1 27 chairperson.	The vice chairperson shall be appointed by the
  1 28 authority each year from the representatives of the interested
  1 29 state agencies on a rotating basis as provided by the

  1 30 authority's rules.

The

director of the department of natural

  1 31 resources vice chairperson's agency shall serve as the
1 32 coordinator of the authority's activities and shall the vice
  1 33 chairperson shall serve as acting chairperson in the absence
1 34 of the governor or the governor's designee.
35	2.	The state interagency Missouri river authority shall be
1 responsible for representing the interests of this state with
  2  2 regard to its membership in the Missouri river basin
  2  3 association and to promote for purposes of promoting the
2	4 management of the Missouri river in a manner that does not
  2  5 negatively impact positively impacts landowners along the
2	6 river or negatively impact, the natural resources of the river
  2  7 and along the river, and the state's economy.	The Missouri
  2  8 river basin association is an authority may participate in or
  2  9 withdraw from any interstate association of government
2 10 representatives formed to seek consensus solutions to issues
2 11 impacting the Missouri river basin.
2 12	3.	a.	The state interagency Missouri river authority
2 13 shall not only vote to approve or disapprove a substantive
2 14 proposal or action being considered by the Missouri river

  2 15 basin an interstate association

without the agreement by

  2 16 unanimous vote of the secretary of agriculture, the directors
2 17 of all four three state departments, and the chairperson of
2 18 the utilities board, or their designees, who are members of
2 19 the authority.	If a substantive proposal or action considered
2 20 by the an interstate association is not approved or
2 21 disapproved by all four the secretary of agriculture, the
2 22 directors of all three state departments, and the chairperson
2 23 of the utilities board, or their designees, the state shall
2 24 abstain from voting on the proposal or action.
2 25	b.  If the state of Iowa may exercise a right of cumulative
  2 26 voting on any issue before an interstate association, it shall
  2 27 not split its votes on that issue.
2 28	4.	The state interagency Missouri river authority shall
2 29 meet regularly with stakeholder groups in this state to
2 30 receive their recommendations before substantive proposals or
2 31 actions are voted upon or to receive policy positions to
2 32 submit to the Missouri river basin an interstate association
33 in which it participates.
2 34
2 35
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3	2	JOHN P. KIBBIE
3	3	President of the Senate

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3	7	PATRICK J. MURPHY	
3	8	Speaker of the House	
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3 10	I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
3 11 is known as Senate File 543, Eighty=second General Assembly. 3 12
3 13
3 14
3 15	MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
3 16	Secretary of the Senate
3 17 Approved	, 2007
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3 21 CHESTER J. CULVER
3 22 Governor