House File 477 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY BUKTA
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act concerning the name and the membership of the Mississippi
2 river parkway commission.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 308.1, Code 2007, is amended to read as
1 2 follows:
1 3 308.1 PLANNING MISSISSIPPI RIVER PARKWAY COMMISSION.
1 4 The Mississippi river parkway planning commission shall be
1 5 composed of ten members appointed by the governor, five
1 6 members to be appointed for two=year terms beginning July 1,
1 7 1959, and five members to be appointed for four=year terms
1 8 beginning July 1, 1959. The ten members shall include one
1 9 member representing each county bordering the Mississippi
1 10 river. In addition to the above members there shall be seven
1 11 five advisory ex officio members who shall be as follows: One
1 12 member from the state department of transportation commission,
1 13 one member from the department of natural resource commission,
1 14 one member from the state soil conservation committee
1 15 resources, one member from the state historical society of
1 16 Iowa, one member from the faculty of the landscape
1 17 architectural division of the Iowa state university of science
1 18 and technology, department of cultural affairs, one member
1 19 from the Iowa department of economic development board, and
1 20 one member from the environmental protection commission United
1 21 States army corps of engineers. Members and ex officio
1 22 members shall serve without pay, but the actual and necessary
1 23 expenses of members and ex officio members may be paid if the
1 24 commission so orders and if the commission has funds available
1 25 for that purpose.
1 26 EXPLANATION
1 27 This bill changes the name of the Mississippi parkway
1 28 planning commission to the Mississippi river parkway
1 29 commission, corresponding to the name of the 10=state umbrella
1 30 organization. The bill also specifies that the 10 members
1 31 appointed by the governor to serve on the Iowa commission
1 32 shall include one member from each of the 10 counties
1 33 bordering the river. The bill reduces the number of advisory
1 34 ex officio members from seven to five, including one member
1 35 from each of the following: the state department of
2 1 transportation, the department of natural resources, the
2 2 department of cultural affairs, the department of economic
2 3 development, and the United States army corps of engineers.
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