State Codes and Statutes
Statutes >
Iowa >
Title-2 >
Subtitle-1 >
Chapter-42 >
42-6
42.6 DUTIES OF COMMISSION.
The functions of the commission shall be as follows:
1. If, in preparation of plans as required by this chapter, the
legislative services agency is confronted with the necessity to make
any decision for which no clearly applicable guideline is provided by
section 42.4, the legislative services agency may submit a written
request for direction to the commission.
2. Prior to delivering any plan and the bill embodying that plan
to the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of
representatives in accordance with section 42.3, the legislative
services agency shall provide to persons outside the legislative
services agency staff only such information regarding the plan as may
be required by policies agreed upon by the commission. This
subsection does not apply to population data furnished to the
legislative services agency by the United States bureau of the
census.
3. Upon the delivery by the legislative services agency to the
general assembly of a bill embodying an initial plan, as required by
section 42.3, subsection 1, the commission shall:
a. As expeditiously as reasonably possible, schedule and
conduct at least three public hearings, in different geographic
regions of the state, on the plan embodied in the bill delivered by
the legislative services agency to the general assembly.
b. Following the hearings, promptly prepare and submit to the
secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house a report
summarizing information and testimony received by the commission in
the course of the hearings. The commission's report shall include
any comments and conclusions which its members deem appropriate on
the information and testimony received at the hearings, or otherwise
presented to the commission. The report shall be submitted no later
than fourteen days after the date the bill embodying an initial plan
of congressional and legislative redistricting is delivered to the
general assembly. Section History: Early Form
[C81, § 42.6] Section History: Recent Form
2003 Acts, ch 35, §44, 49; 2007 Acts, ch 78, §8, 9
Referred to in § 42.3, 42.5
