House File 789 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON STATE
GOVERNMENT
(SUCCESSOR TO HF 572)
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act concerning the appointment of young adults to appointive
2 boards, commissions, committees, and councils and including an
3 applicability date provision.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
5 TLSB 2215HV 83
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 69.16D YOUNG ADULT
1 2 REPRESENTATION.
1 3 1. For purposes of this section, unless the context
1 4 otherwise requires:
1 5 a. "Qualified appointive boards" means all of the
1 6 following:
1 7 (1) The Iowa economic development board created in section
1 8 15.103.
1 9 (2) The vision Iowa board created in section 15F.102.
1 10 (3) The commission of Latino affairs created in section
1 11 216A.12.
1 12 (4) The commission on the status of women created in
1 13 section 216A.52.
1 14 (5) The commission of persons with disabilities created in
1 15 section 216A.72.
1 16 (6) The commission on community action agencies created in
1 17 section 216A.92A.
1 18 (7) The commission on the deaf created in section
1 19 216A.112.
1 20 (8) The commission on the status of African=Americans
1 21 created in section 216A.142.
1 22 (9) The commission on the status of Iowans of Asian and
1 23 Pacific Islander heritage created in section 216A.152.
1 24 (10) The commission on Native American affairs created in
1 25 section 216A.162.
1 26 (11) The state board of regents created in section 262.1.
1 27 (12) The Iowa great places board established in section
1 28 303.3C.
1 29 (13) The Iowa arts council created in section 303.86.
1 30 (14) The natural resource commission created in section
1 31 455A.5.
1 32 b. "Young adult" means a person who, at the time of
1 33 appointment or reappointment, is at least eighteen years of
1 34 age but less than thirty=five years of age.
1 35 2. a. All appointive boards, commissions, committees, and
2 1 councils of the state established by the Code should provide,
2 2 to the extent practicable and if not otherwise provided by
2 3 law, for young adult representation. All appointing
2 4 authorities of boards, commissions, committees, and councils
2 5 should consider qualified young adults for appointment to
2 6 boards, commissions, committees, and councils.
2 7 b. All qualified appointive boards shall include at least
2 8 two members who are young adults. A person shall not be
2 9 appointed or reappointed to any qualified appointive board if
2 10 that appointment or reappointment would cause the number of
2 11 young adult members of the qualified appointive board to be
2 12 less than two members. If there are multiple appointing
2 13 authorities for a qualified appointive board, they shall
2 14 consult each other to avoid a violation of this paragraph "b".
2 15 Sec. 2. APPLICABILITY DATE. The provision of this Act
2 16 requiring the appointment of young adults to qualified
2 17 appointive boards is applicable to appointments made to
2 18 qualified appointive boards on and after January 1, 2011.
2 19 EXPLANATION
2 20 This bill concerns the appointment of young adults to
2 21 appointive boards, commissions, committees, and councils of
2 22 the state that are established by the Code. The bill provides
2 23 that a young adult is a person who, at the time of
2 24 appointment, is at least 18 but less than 35 years of age.
2 25 The bill provides that all appointive boards, commissions,
2 26 committees, and councils established by the Code should
2 27 provide for young adult representation and provides that
2 28 appointing authorities should consider qualified young adults
2 29 for appointment to such boards, commissions, committees, and
2 30 councils.
2 31 The bill also provides that certain qualified appointive
2 32 boards shall include at least two young adult members on the
2 33 board by January 1, 2011. The bill defines qualified
2 34 appointive boards to mean the economic development board, the
2 35 vision Iowa board, the commission of Latino affairs, the
3 1 commission on the status of women, the commission of persons
3 2 with disabilities, the commission on community action
3 3 agencies, the commission on the deaf, the commission on the
3 4 status of African=Americans, the commission on the status of
3 5 Iowans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage, the commission
3 6 on Native American affairs, the state board of regents, the
3 7 great places board, the Iowa arts council, and the natural
3 8 resource commission.
3 9 The provision of the bill requiring the appointment of
3 10 young adults to qualified appointive boards is applicable to
3 11 appointments made to those boards on and after January 1,
3 12 2011.
3 13 LSB 2215HV 83
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