House Study Bill 220 



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


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the membership of the board of educational
  2    examiners.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2449HC 82
  5 kh/gg/14

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 272.3, subsection 1, unnumbered
  1  2 paragraph 1, Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    The board of educational examiners consists of eleven
  1  4 twelve members.  Two must be members of the general public,
  1  5 one must be the director of the department of education or the
  1  6 director's designee, and the remaining nine members must be
  1  7 licensed practitioners.  One of the public members shall have
  1  8 served on a school board.  The public members shall never have
  1  9 held a practitioner's license, but shall have a demonstrated
  1 10 interest in education.  One of the licensed practitioners
  1 11 shall be the director of the department of education or the
  1 12 director's designee.  The remaining eight nine practitioners
  1 13 shall be selected from the following areas and specialties of
  1 14 the teaching profession:
  1 15                           EXPLANATION
  1 16    This bill increases the membership of the board of
  1 17 educational examiners from 11 members to 12 members.  The bill
  1 18 eliminates a requirement that the director of the department
  1 19 of education serve as one of the members who is required to be
  1 20 a licensed practitioner.
  1 21 LSB 2449HC 82
  1 22 kh:nh/gg/14.1