House Study Bill 121



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            EDUCATION BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON TYMESON)


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the nonpractitioner members of the board of
  2    educational examiners.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1403YC 81
  5 kh/pj/5

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 272.3, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code
  1  2 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    The board of educational examiners consists of eleven
  1  4 members.  Two must be members of the general public and the
  1  5 remaining nine must be licensed practitioners.  One of the
  1  6 public members shall also be the director of the department of
  1  7 education, or the director's designee.  The other public
  1  8 member members shall be a person who does not hold never have
  1  9 held a practitioner's license, but has shall have a
  1 10 demonstrated interest in education.  The nine practitioners
  1 11 shall be selected from the following areas and specialties of
  1 12 the teaching profession:
  1 13    Sec. 2.  Section 272.3, unnumbered paragraph 2, Code 2005,
  1 14 is amended to read as follows:
  1 15    A majority of the licensed practitioner members shall be
  1 16 nonadministrative practitioners.  Four of the members shall be
  1 17 administrators.  Membership of the board shall comply with the
  1 18 requirements of sections 69.16 and 69.16A.  A quorum of the
  1 19 board shall consist of six members.  The director of the
  1 20 department of education Members shall serve as the elect a
  1 21 chairperson of the board.  Members, except for the director of
  1 22 the department of education, shall be appointed by the
  1 23 governor and the appointments are subject to confirmation by
  1 24 the senate.
  1 25                           EXPLANATION
  1 26    This bill changes the composition of the membership of the
  1 27 board of educational examiners by striking language that
  1 28 requires the membership to include the director of the
  1 29 department of education and which requires that the director
  1 30 serve as the chairperson of the board.  However, the bill does
  1 31 not adjust the total number of members that comprise the
  1 32 board, which remains at 11 and includes two public members.
  1 33 The bill does require that the public members shall never have
  1 34 held a practitioner's license.
  1 35 LSB 1403YC 81
  2  1 kh/pj/5