House File 722 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  WESSEL=KROESCHELL, LENSING,
                                           WINCKLER, and HUNTER


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing an appropriation to the department of human
  2    rights for an Americans With Disabilities Act compliance
  3    coordinator and providing duties.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 2638HH 82
  6 eg/es/88

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  1  1    Section 1.  DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS == AMERICANS WITH
  1  2 DISABILITIES ACT COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR.  There is
  1  3 appropriated from the general fund of the state to the
  1  4 department of human rights for the fiscal year beginning July
  1  5 1, 2007, and ending June 30, 2008, the following amount, or so
  1  6 much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
  1  7 designated:
  1  8    To employ a person qualified to educate persons affected by
  1  9 and to coordinate the inspection of buildings and structures
  1 10 subject to the federal Americans With Disabilities Act of
  1 11 1990, to further compliance with such Act, including salaries,
  1 12 support, maintenance, miscellaneous purposes, and for not more
  1 13 than the following full=time equivalent position:
  1 14 .................................................. $     90,000
  1 15 ............................................... FTEs       1.00
  1 16    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  216A.2A  AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES
  1 17 ACT COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR.
  1 18    The department director shall employ and supervise a person
  1 19 qualified to educate persons affected by and to coordinate the
  1 20 inspection of buildings and structures subject to the federal
  1 21 Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. } 12101 et
  1 22 seq., to further compliance with such Act.  The person so
  1 23 employed shall cooperate with the division of persons with
  1 24 disabilities, and to the extent feasible, consult and
  1 25 cooperate with the state building code commissioner of the
  1 26 department of public safety.
  1 27                           EXPLANATION
  1 28    This bill appropriates $90,000 from the general fund of the
  1 29 state to the department of human rights for the fiscal year
  1 30 beginning July 1, 2007, and ending June 30, 2008, to provide a
  1 31 full=time equivalent position for the employment of a person
  1 32 qualified to educate persons affected by and to coordinate the
  1 33 inspection of buildings and structures subject to the federal
  1 34 Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, to further compliance
  1 35 with such Act.
  2  1    The bill also creates new Code section 216A.2A to require
  2  2 that the director of the department of human rights employ and
  2  3 supervise such a person.  The bill provides that the person so
  2  4 employed shall cooperate with the division of persons with
  2  5 disabilities, and to the extent feasible, consult and
  2  6 cooperate with the state building code commissioner of the
  2  7 department of public safety.
  2  8 LSB 2638HH 82
  2  9 eg:rj/es/88