Senate Study Bill 1148 



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON QUIRMBACH)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the confidentiality of security procedures or
  2    emergency preparedness information discussed at a meeting of a
  3    governmental body and providing an effective date.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1654SC 82
  6 rh/es/88

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 21.5, subsection 1, paragraph k, Code
  1  2 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    k.  To discuss information contained in records in the
  1  4 custody of a public airport, municipal corporation, municipal
  1  5 utility, jointly owned municipal utility, or rural water
  1  6 district organized under chapter 357A, that are confidential
  1  7 records pursuant to section 22.7, subsection 46 50.  This
  1  8 paragraph is repealed effective June 30, 2007.
  1  9    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 10 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 11                           EXPLANATION
  1 12    This bill relates to the confidentiality of security
  1 13 procedures or emergency preparedness information discussed at
  1 14 a meeting of a governmental body.
  1 15    The bill makes a conforming change in the open meetings law
  1 16 (Code chapter 21) relating to a legislative change made in the
  1 17 open records law (Code chapter 22) during the 2006 legislative
  1 18 session concerning the confidentiality of security procedures
  1 19 or emergency preparedness information developed and maintained
  1 20 by a government body (HF 2590).  House File 2590 repealed Code
  1 21 section 22.7, subsection 46, which had made records of a
  1 22 government body concerning courthouse security information
  1 23 confidential and replaced it with Code section 22.7,
  1 24 subsection 50, which contains similar provisions concerning
  1 25 the confidentiality of security procedures or emergency
  1 26 preparedness information.
  1 27    Code section 21.5 contains a provision that allows a
  1 28 governmental body to hold a closed meeting to discuss
  1 29 information contained in records in the custody of a public
  1 30 airport, municipal corporation, municipal utility, jointly
  1 31 owned municipal utility, or rural water district organized
  1 32 under Code chapter 357A, that are confidential records
  1 33 pursuant to Code section 22.7.  The bill further eliminates a
  1 34 repeal of this law effective June 30, 2007.
  1 35    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
  2  1 LSB 1654SC 82
  2  2 rh:rj/es/88