SSB 1124 (LSB 1219XC (1) 88)

SENATE FILE _____ 

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON EDLER)

A BILL FOR

An Act concerning county supervisor representation plans.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 331.206, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  The plan used under subsection 1 shall be selected by the board or by a special election as provided in section 331.207. A plan selected by the board shall remain in effect for at least six years and shall only be changed by a special election as provided in section 331.207. However, a county with a population of sixty thousand or more based on the most recent federal decennial census shall use plan “three” for the election of supervisors.
    Sec. 2.  Section 331.207, subsection 6, Code 2019, is amended by striking the subsection.
    Sec. 3.  TRANSITION PROVISION.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a county with a population of sixty thousand or more based on the most recent federal decennial census that does not use plan “three” for the election of supervisors, as defined in section 331.206, as of the effective date of this Act shall not be required to elect supervisors using plan “three” until the election for supervisors following the adoption of a representation plan drawn pursuant to section 331.210A, subsection 2, paragraph “f”, after the redistricting of congressional and legislative districts becomes law following the federal decennial census taken in the year 2020.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill requires a county with a population of 60,000 or more based on the most recent federal decennial census to use plan “three” for the election of county supervisors. Plan “three” requires individual members of the board of supervisors for that county to be elected from single-member equal-population districts. The bill provides that a county with a population of 60,000 or more as of the effective date of the bill that does not use plan “three” for the election of supervisors shall not be required to elect supervisors under plan “three” until the election for supervisors after the adoption of a county supervisor representation plan following the federal decennial census taken in 2020.