2A.1 - LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY CREATED -- SERVICES -- LEGISLATIVE PRIVILEGES -- NONPARTISANSHIP AND NONADVOCACY.
2A.1 LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY CREATED -- SERVICES
-- LEGISLATIVE PRIVILEGES -- NONPARTISANSHIP AND NONADVOCACY.
1. A legislative services agency is created as a nonpartisan,
central legislative staff agency under the direction and control of
the legislative council. The agency shall cooperate with and serve
all members of the general assembly, the legislative council, and
committees of the general assembly.
2. The legislative services agency shall provide the following
services:
a. Legal and fiscal analysis, including legal drafting
services, fiscal analysis of legislation, and state expenditure,
revenue, and budget review.
b. State government oversight and performance evaluation.
c. Staffing of standing committees, revenue and budget
committees, statutory committees, and interim study committees, and
any subcommittees of such committees, including the provision of
legal and fiscal analysis to committees and subcommittees.
d. Publication of the official legal publications of the
state, including but not limited to the Iowa Code, Iowa Code
Supplement, Iowa Acts, Iowa court rules, Iowa administrative
bulletin, and Iowa administrative code as provided in chapter 2B.
e. Operation and maintenance of the legislative computer
systems used by the senate, house of representatives, and the central
legislative staff agencies.
f. Provision of legislative information to the public,
provision of library information, management of legislative visitor
protocol services, and provision of capitol tour guide services.
g. Other functions as assigned to the legislative services
agency by the legislative council or the general assembly.
3. The legislative services agency shall provide services to the
general assembly in such a manner as to preserve the authority of the
senate and the house of representatives to determine their own rules
of proceedings and to exercise all other powers necessary for a
separate branch of the general assembly of a free and independent
state, and to protect the legislative privileges of the members and
employees of the general assembly. In providing services to the
general assembly, the legislative services agency shall adhere to all
applicable policies of the general assembly and its constituent
bodies relating to public access to legislative information and
related confidentiality restrictions.
4. The director and all other employees of the legislative
services agency shall not participate in partisan political
activities and shall not be identified as advocates or opponents of
issues subject to legislative debate except as otherwise provided by
law or by the legislative council. Section History: Recent Form
2003 Acts, ch 35, §1, 49