H.F. 550 Section 1. NEW SECTION . 70A.40 Elective public officer 1 contact information. 2 Within thirty days of an elective public officer swearing 3 to an oath of office, the governmental entity the officer 4 serves shall provide the officer with designated contact 5 information with the governmental entity. A governmental 6 entity that maintains an internet site shall cause to be 7 published the contact information for each of the entity’s 8 elective public officers on the internet site maintained by 9 the entity. Additionally, an elective public officer shall 10 provide the officer’s personal contact information to the 11 governmental entity to be published as provided in this section 12 for designated contact information. For the purposes of this 13 section “contact information” means a telephone number and 14 an electronic mail address and any other electronic contact 15 information. 16 EXPLANATION 17 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 18 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 19 This bill requires publication of contact information 20 for elective public officers on the internet site of the 21 governmental entity the officer serves. The bill requires that 22 the governmental entity provide the officer with designated 23 contact information and requires a governmental entity that 24 maintains an internet site to publish designated contact 25 information for each of the entity’s elective public officers 26 on the internet site maintained by the entity. The bill 27 provides a definition for contact information and also requires 28 an elective public officer to provide the officer’s personal 29 contact information to the governmental entity to be published 30 as provided in the bill for designated contact information. 31 -1- LSB 1824HV (3) 86 aw/sc 1/ 1