House File 571 - Reprinted



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

                                       (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 207)


    Passed House, Date               Passed Senate,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to open meetings by applying the open meetings
  2    law to advisory bodies created by joint governmental entities
  3    and by modifying public notice requirements for meetings of
  4    boards of township trustees.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 21.2, subsection 1, Code 2009, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1  3    NEW PARAGRAPH.  i.  An advisory board, advisory commission,
  1  4 advisory committee, task force, or other body created by an
  1  5 entity organized under chapter 28E, or by the administrator or
  1  6 joint board specified in a chapter 28E agreement, to develop
  1  7 and make recommendations on public policy issues.
  1  8    Sec. 2.  Section 21.4, subsection 1, Code 2009, is amended
  1  9 to read as follows:
  1 10    1.  A governmental body, except township trustees, shall
  1 11 give notice of the time, date, and place of each meeting, and
  1 12 its tentative agenda, in a manner reasonably calculated to
  1 13 apprise the public of that information.  Reasonable notice
  1 14 shall include advising the news media who have filed a request
  1 15 for notice with the governmental body  and posting the notice
  1 16 on a bulletin board or other prominent place which is easily
  1 17 accessible to the public and clearly designated for that
  1 18 purpose at the principal office of the body holding the
  1 19 meeting, or if no such office exists, at the building in which
  1 20 the meeting is to be held.
  1 21    Sec. 3.  Section 359.17, subsection 2, Code 2009, is
  1 22 amended to read as follows:
  1 23    2.  A board of township trustees shall give prior notice of
  1 24 a meeting to discuss, deliberate, or act upon a matter
  1 25 relating to the budget or a tax levy of the township or
  1 26 relating to the trustees' duty to provide fire protection
  1 27 service and, if provided, emergency medical service, pursuant
  1 28 to section 359.42.  The trustees shall give notice of such
  1 29 meeting at least forty=eight twenty=four hours preceding the
  1 30 commencement of the meeting.  However, a notice is not
  1 31 required pursuant to this subsection when the trustees gather
  1 32 for minor or purely ministerial matters relating to the
  1 33 trustees' duty for providing such fire protection service or
  1 34 emergency medical service.  The notice shall state the time,
  1 35 date, and place of the meeting and the proposed agenda.  The
  2  1 notice shall be provided to the county auditor who shall post
  2  2 the notice in an area of the courthouse where notices to the
  2  3 public are commonly posted.
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