Senate Study Bill 3013





                                       SENATE/HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF
                                            INSPECTIONS AND APPEALS
                                            BILL)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act revising the membership requirements for the child
  2    advocacy board.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 5341DP 81
  5 jp/je/5

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 237.16, subsections 1 and 3, Code 2005,
  1  2 are amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  The child advocacy board is created within the
  1  4 department of inspections and appeals.  The state board
  1  5 consists of nine members appointed by the governor, subject to
  1  6 confirmation by the senate and directly responsible to the
  1  7 governor.  One member shall be an active court appointed
  1  8 special advocate volunteer, one member shall be an active
  1  9 member of a local citizen foster care review board, and one
  1 10 member shall be a judicial branch employee or judicial officer
  1 11 appointed from nominees submitted by the judicial branch.  The
  1 12 appointment is for a term of four years that begins and ends
  1 13 as provided in section 69.19.  Vacancies on the state board
  1 14 shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments
  1 15 are made.
  1 16    3.  An employee of the department or of the department of
  1 17 inspections and appeals, an employee of a child=placing
  1 18 agency, an employee of an agency with which the department
  1 19 contracts for services for children under foster care, a
  1 20 foster parent providing foster care, or an employee of the
  1 21 district court is not eligible to serve on the state board.
  1 22 However, the judicial branch employee or judicial officer
  1 23 appointed from nominees submitted by the judicial branch in
  1 24 accordance with subsection 1 shall be eligible to serve on the
  1 25 state board.
  1 26                           EXPLANATION
  1 27    This bill amends Code section 237.16, relating to the
  1 28 membership of the child advocacy board.  Current law provides
  1 29 for the board to have nine members, with two members
  1 30 designated to represent particular interests.  The bill
  1 31 specifies that one of the nine members must be an active
  1 32 member of a local citizen foster care review board.  The bill
  1 33 also eliminates restrictions against the following persons
  1 34 serving as members of the child advocacy board:  an employee
  1 35 of a child=placing agency, an employee of an agency with which
  2  1 the department contracts for services for children under
  2  2 foster care, and a foster parent providing foster care.
  2  3 LSB 5341DP 81
  2  4 jp:rj/je/5