House File 550 - Reprinted HOUSE FILE 550 BY COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 135) (As Amended and Passed by the House March 25, 2015 ) A BILL FOR An Act requiring publication on the internet of contact 1 information for elective public officers. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 HF 550 (4) 86 aw/sc/md
H.F. 550 Section 1. NEW SECTION . 70A.40 Elective public officer 1 contact information. 2 1. 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 the 9 entity. An elective public officer shall provide additional 10 contact information that would normally be used to make contact 11 with the officer to the governmental entity to be published as 12 provided in this section for designated contact information. 13 2. a. For the purposes of this section, “contact 14 information” means a telephone number and an electronic mail 15 address. 16 b. For the purposes of this section, “elective public 17 officer” or “officer” means all of the following: 18 (1) Members of the general assembly. 19 (2) Members of a county board of supervisors. 20 (3) Members of a city council. 21 (4) Members of a board of directors of a school district. 22 -1- HF 550 (4) 86 aw/sc/md 1/ 1