House File 164 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 164 BY T. TAYLOR A BILL FOR An Act relating to the membership of the board of directors of 1 a judicial district department of correctional services. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1082YH (3) 86 jm/nh
H.F. 164 Section 1. Section 905.3, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 1 2015, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph: 2 NEW SUBPARAGRAPH . (4) One ex officio, nonvoting member 3 shall be chosen from and by the largest statewide public 4 employees’ organization representing state employees no later 5 than January 15 of each year. 6 Sec. 2. Section 905.3, subsection 2, Code 2015, is amended 7 to read as follows: 8 2. Each district board shall have an executive committee 9 consisting of the chairperson and vice chairperson and at least 10 one but no more than five six other members of the district 11 board. Either the chairperson or the vice chairperson shall 12 be a supervisor, and the remaining representation on the 13 executive committee shall be divided as equally as possible 14 among supervisor members, project advisory committee members 15 or , citizen members, or ex officio, nonvoting public employee 16 organization members and judicially appointed members. 17 The executive committee may exercise all of the powers 18 and discharge all of the duties of the district board, as 19 prescribed by this chapter , except those specifically withheld 20 from the executive committee by action of the district board. 21 Sec. 3. Section 905.3, subsection 4, Code 2015, is amended 22 to read as follows: 23 4. Each Except as provided in subsection 1, paragraph “a” , 24 subparagraph (4), each member of the district board shall 25 have one vote on the board. However, upon the request of any 26 supervisory member, the vote on any matter before the board 27 shall be taken by weighted vote. In each such case, the vote 28 of the supervisor representative of the least populous county 29 in the judicial district shall have a weight of one unit, and 30 the vote of each of the other supervisor members shall have 31 a weight which bears the same proportion to one unit as the 32 population of the county that supervisor member represents 33 bears to the population of the least populous county in the 34 district. In the event of weighted vote, the vote of each 35 -1- LSB 1082YH (3) 86 jm/nh 1/ 2
H.F. 164 member appointed from a project advisory committee or of each 1 citizen member and of each judicially appointed member shall 2 have a weight of one unit. 3 EXPLANATION 4 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 5 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 6 This bill relates to the membership of the board of directors 7 of a judicial district department of correctional services. 8 The bill adds a member to the board of directors to be 9 chosen from and by the largest statewide public employees’ 10 organization representing state employees no later than January 11 15 of each year. 12 The bill further increases the number of members who may sit 13 on the executive committee of the board of directors who are 14 not the chairperson or vice-chairperson from five members to 15 six members. 16 The bill specifies that the new member added by the bill is 17 a nonvoting member of the board of directors of the judicial 18 district department of correctional services and, if appointed 19 to the executive committee, a nonvoting member of the executive 20 committee of the district board. 21 -2- LSB 1082YH (3) 86 jm/nh 2/ 2