Senate Study Bill 1050 



                                       SENATE/HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMISSION ON
                                            THE STATUS OF WOMEN BILL)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing for gender balance on local boards, commissions,
  2    committees, and councils, and including an applicability
  3    provision.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1345DP 83
  6 ec/rj/8

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 69.16A, Code 2009, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    69.16A  GENDER BALANCE.
  1  4    All appointive boards, commissions, committees, and
  1  5 councils of the state, or of a political subdivision of the
  1  6 state, that are established by the Code, if not otherwise
  1  7 provided by law, shall be gender balanced.  No person shall be
  1  8 appointed or reappointed to any board, commission, committee,
  1  9 or council established by the Code if that appointment or
  1 10 reappointment would cause the number of members of the board,
  1 11 commission, committee, or council of one gender to be greater
  1 12 than one=half the membership of the board, commission,
  1 13 committee, or council plus one if the board, commission,
  1 14 committee, or council is composed of an odd number of members.
  1 15 If the board, commission, committee, or council is composed of
  1 16 an even number of members, not more than one=half of the
  1 17 membership shall be of one gender.  If there are multiple
  1 18 appointing authorities for a board, commission, committee, or
  1 19 council, they shall consult each other to avoid a violation of
  1 20 this section.  This section shall not prohibit an individual
  1 21 from completing a term being served on June 30, 1987.
  1 22    Sec. 2.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act is applicable to
  1 23 appointive boards, commissions, committees, and councils of a
  1 24 political subdivision of the state on and after January 1,
  1 25 2012.
  1 26                           EXPLANATION
  1 27    This bill requires appointive boards, commissions,
  1 28 committees, and councils of a political subdivision of the
  1 29 state that are established by the Iowa Code to be gender
  1 30 balanced.  Current law only applies the gender balance
  1 31 requirement to state boards, commissions, committees, and
  1 32 councils.  The bill provides that the gender balance
  1 33 requirement for political subdivisions applies beginning on
  1 34 and after January 1, 2012.
  1 35 LSB 1345DP 83
  2  1 ec/rj/8