House File 47HOUSE FILE BY PETTENGILL Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act expanding the number of members appointed to the utilities 2 board within the utilities division of the department of 3 commerce. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 1587HH 83 6 rn/rj/8 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 474.1, subsection 1, Code 2009, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. A utilities division is created within the department 1 4 of commerce. The policymaking body for the division is the 1 5 utilities board which is created within the division. The 1 6 board is composed of threefive members appointed by the 1 7 governor and subject to confirmation by the senate, not more 1 8 thantwothree of whom shall be from the same political party. 1 9 One member shall represent an electric public utility having 1 10 fewer than ten thousand customers or a rural electric 1 11 cooperative or association; and one member shall represent a 1 12 mutual telephone company in which at least fifty percent of 1 13 the users are owners, a cooperative telephone corporation or 1 14 association, or a telephone company having less than fifteen 1 15 thousand customers and less than fifteen thousand access 1 16 lines. Each member appointed shall serve for six=year 1 17 staggered terms beginning and ending as provided by section 1 18 69.19. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired portion of 1 19 the term in the same manner as full=term appointments are 1 20 made. 1 21 EXPLANATION 1 22 This bill expands the number of members of the utilities 1 23 board within the utilities division of the department of 1 24 commerce from the current three members to five members. The 1 25 bill specifies that one of the two additional members shall 1 26 represent an electric public utility having fewer than 10,000 1 27 customers or a rural electric cooperative or association. The 1 28 other member shall represent a mutual telephone company in 1 29 which at least 50 percent of the users are owners, a 1 30 cooperative telephone corporation or association, or a 1 31 telephone company having less than 15,000 customers and less 1 32 than 15,000 access lines. 1 33 LSB 1587HH 83 1 34 rn/rj/8