House File 477 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  BUKTA


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                                      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:
  4 TLSB 2252HH 82
  5 dea/es/88

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  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.
  2  4 LSB 2252HH 82
  2  5 dea:nh/es/88