SENATE FILE 461

BY  COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION

(SUCCESSOR TO LSB 2721XC)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to certain boards and commissions with legislative appointments.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 28B.1, subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   The In accordance with a resolution adopted for this purpose by the legislative council, an Iowa commission on interstate cooperation is hereby established shall be appointed to address the charge and other responsibilities for the commission outlined in the resolution. It The commission shall consist of thirteen members to be appointed as follows:
   Sec. 2.  Section 28B.4, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   28B.4  Report.
   1.  The commission shall report to the governor and to the legislature within fifteen days after the convening of each general assembly general assembly in accordance with the commission’s charge, and at may report at other times as it deems deemed appropriate by the commission.
   2.  Its The commission’s members and the members of all committees which it establishes shall be reimbursed for their travel and other necessary expenses in carrying out their obligations under this chapter and legislative members shall be paid a per diemas specified in section 7E.6 for each day in which engaged in the performance of their duties, the per diem and legislators’ expenses to be paid from funds appropriated by sections 2.10 and 2.12. Expenses of administrative officers, state officials, or state employees who are members of the Iowa commission on interstate cooperation or a committee appointed by the commission shall be paid from funds appropriated to the agencies or departments which persons represent except as may otherwise be provided by the general assembly. Expenses of citizen members who may be appointed to committees of the commission may be paid from funds as authorized by the general assembly. Expenses of the secretary or employees of the secretary and support services in connection with the administration of the commission shall be paid from funds appropriated to the legislative services agency unless otherwise provided by the general assembly. Expenses of commission members shall be paid upon approval of the chairperson or the secretary of the commission.
   Sec. 3.  Section 216A.132, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   c.
  (1)  The chief justice of the supreme court shall designate one member who is a district judge and one member who is either a district associate judge or associate juvenile judge. The chairperson and ranking member of the senate committee on judiciary shall be members. In alternating four-year intervals, the chairperson and ranking member of the house committee on judiciary or of the house committee on public safety shall be members, with the chairperson and ranking member of the house committee on public safety serving during the initial interval. Nonlegislative The members appointed pursuant to this paragraph subparagraph shall serve as ex officio, nonvoting members for four-year terms beginning and ending as provided in section 69.19, unless the member ceases to serve as adistrict court judge.
   (2)  The chairperson and ranking member of the senate committee on judiciary shall be ex officio, nonvoting members. In alternating two-year terms, beginning and ending as provided in section 69.16B, the chairperson and ranking member of the house committee on judiciary or of the house committee on public safety shall be ex officio, nonvoting members, with the chairperson and ranking member of the house committee on public safety serving during the term beginning in January 2011.
   Sec. 4.  REPEAL.  Section 249A.36, Code 2011, is repealed.
EXPLANATION
   This bill relates to certain boards and commissions with legislative appointments.
   Code chapter 28B, relating to the commission on interstate cooperation, is amended to provide for appointment of a commission in accordance with a resolution adopted for this purpose by the legislative council and to conform the per diem payment provision with that applied to other legislative appointments. Current law provides for the commission to be appointed on an ongoing basis.
   Code section 216A.132, relating to appointment of the criminal and juvenile justice planning advisory council in the department of human rights, is amended. The judicial and legislative branch appointments are specified to be ex officio and nonvoting positions. In addition, the terms of the legislative appointments from the house of representatives are conformed with other legislative appointments to begin and end with the term of the general assembly biennium.
   Code section 249A.36, establishing the medical assistance quality improvement council, is repealed. The Code provision establishing the council, consisting of nonlegislator members, was enacted in 2008 but council members have never been appointed.