Complete Bill History



House File 47        


                                          HOUSE FILE       
                                          BY  PETTENGILL


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

                                         A BILL FOR

     1 An Act expanding the number of members appointed to the utilities
     2    board within the utilities division of the department of
     3    commerce.
     4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
     5 TLSB 1587HH 83
     6 rn/rj/8

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 474.1, subsection 1, Code 2009, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  A utilities division is created within the department
  1  4 of commerce.  The policymaking body for the division is the
  1  5 utilities board which is created within the division.  The
  1  6 board is composed of three five members appointed by the
  1  7 governor and subject to confirmation by the senate, not more
  1  8 than two three of whom shall be from the same political party.
  1  9 One member shall represent an electric public utility having
  1 10 fewer than ten thousand customers or a rural electric
  1 11 cooperative or association; and one member shall represent a
  1 12 mutual telephone company in which at least fifty percent of
  1 13 the users are owners, a cooperative telephone corporation or
  1 14 association, or a telephone company having less than fifteen
  1 15 thousand customers and less than fifteen thousand access
  1 16 lines.  Each member appointed shall serve for six=year
  1 17 staggered terms beginning and ending as provided by section
  1 18 69.19.  Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired portion of
  1 19 the term in the same manner as full=term appointments are
  1 20 made.
  1 21                           EXPLANATION
  1 22    This bill expands the number of members of the utilities
  1 23 board within the utilities division of the department of
  1 24 commerce from the current three members to five members.  The
  1 25 bill specifies that one of the two additional members shall
  1 26 represent an electric public utility having fewer than 10,000
  1 27 customers or a rural electric cooperative or association.  The
  1 28 other member shall represent a mutual telephone company in
  1 29 which at least 50 percent of the users are owners, a
  1 30 cooperative telephone corporation or association, or a
  1 31 telephone company having less than 15,000 customers and less
  1 32 than 15,000 access lines.
  1 33 LSB 1587HH 83
  1 34 rn/rj/8