SF 145 (LSB 1082XS (3) 86)

SENATE FILE 145

BY  HOGG

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the membership of the board of directors of a judicial district department of correctional services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 905.3, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 2015, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph:
   NEW SUBPARAGRAPH.  (4)  One ex officio, nonvoting member shall be chosen from and by the largest statewide public employees’ organization representing state employees no later than January 15 of each year.
    Sec. 2.  Section 905.3, subsection 2, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Each district board shall have an executive committee consisting of the chairperson and vice chairperson and at least one but no more than five six other members of the district board. Either the chairperson or the vice chairperson shall be a supervisor, and the remaining representation on the executive committee shall be divided as equally as possible among supervisor members, project advisory committee members or, citizen members, or ex officio, nonvoting public employee organization members and judicially appointed members. The executive committee may exercise all of the powers and discharge all of the duties of the district board, as prescribed by this chapter, except those specifically withheld from the executive committee by action of the district board.
    Sec. 3.  Section 905.3, subsection 4, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  Each Except as provided in subsection 1, paragraph “a”, subparagraph (4), each member of the district board shall have one vote on the board. However, upon the request of any supervisory member, the vote on any matter before the board shall be taken by weighted vote. In each such case, the vote of the supervisor representative of the least populous county in the judicial district shall have a weight of one unit, and the vote of each of the other supervisor members shall have a weight which bears the same proportion to one unit as the population of the county that supervisor member represents bears to the population of the least populous county in the district. In the event of weighted vote, the vote of each member appointed from a project advisory committee or of each citizen member and of each judicially appointed member shall have a weight of one unit.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to the membership of the board of directors of a judicial district department of correctional services.
   The bill adds a member to the board of directors to be chosen from and by the largest statewide public employees’ organization representing state employees no later than January 15 of each year.
   The bill further increases the number of members who may sit on the executive committee of the board of directors who are not the chairperson or vice-chairperson from five members to six members.
   The bill specifies that the new member added by the bill is a nonvoting member of the board of directors of the judicial district department of correctional services and, if appointed to the executive committee, a nonvoting member of the executive committee of the district board.