Senate File 134 - Introduced SENATE FILE 134 BY EDLER A BILL FOR An Act concerning county supervisor representation plans, and 1 including effective date provisions. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 2001XS (1) 89 ss/rn
S.F. 134 Section 1. Section 331.206, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code 1 2021, is amended to read as follows: 2 a. The plan used under subsection 1 shall be selected by 3 the board or by a special election as provided in section 4 331.207 . A plan selected by the board shall remain in effect 5 for at least six years and shall only be changed by a special 6 election as provided in section 331.207 . However, a county 7 with a population of sixty thousand or more based on the most 8 recent federal decennial census shall use plan “three” for the 9 election of supervisors. 10 Sec. 2. Section 331.207, subsection 6, Code 2021, is amended 11 by striking the subsection. 12 Sec. 3. TRANSITION PROVISION. Notwithstanding any 13 provision of law to the contrary, a county with a population 14 of sixty thousand or more based on the most recent federal 15 decennial census that does not use plan “three” for the 16 election of supervisors, as defined in section 331.206, as 17 of the effective date of this Act shall not be required to 18 elect supervisors using plan “three” until the election for 19 supervisors following the adoption of a representation plan 20 drawn pursuant to section 331.210A, subsection 2, paragraph 21 “f”, after the redistricting of congressional and legislative 22 districts becomes law following the federal decennial census 23 taken in the year 2020. 24 Sec. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate 25 importance, takes effect upon enactment. 26 EXPLANATION 27 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 28 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 29 This bill requires a county with a population of 60,000 30 or more based on the most recent federal decennial census 31 to use plan “three” for the election of county supervisors. 32 Plan “three” requires individual members of the board of 33 supervisors for that county to be elected from single-member 34 equal-population districts. The bill provides that a county 35 -1- LSB 2001XS (1) 89 ss/rn 1/ 2
S.F. 134 with a population of 60,000 or more as of the effective date 1 of the bill that does not use plan “three” for the election of 2 supervisors shall not be required to elect supervisors under 3 plan “three” until the election for supervisors after the 4 adoption of a county supervisor representation plan following 5 the federal decennial census taken in 2020. 6 The bill takes effect upon enactment. 7 -2- LSB 2001XS (1) 89 ss/rn 2/ 2