2A.4 - SPECIFIC SERVICES -- PUBLIC POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS RESTRICTED.
2A.4 SPECIFIC SERVICES -- PUBLIC POLICY
RECOMMENDATIONS RESTRICTED.
The legislative services agency shall provide the following
specific services:
1. Preparation of legal and legislative analysis of any
governmental matter upon the proper request of members and committees
of the general assembly. Such analysis shall not contain any public
policy recommendations. Such legal analysis shall be provided
through the exercise of an attorney-employee's independent,
professional judgment.
2. Drafting and preparation of legislation, including bills,
resolutions, and amendments, for committees and individual members of
the general assembly; proposed bills and joint resolutions for state
agencies and the governor in accordance with section 2.16; and bills
embodying a plan of legislative and congressional redistricting
prepared in accordance with chapter 42.
3. Fiscal analysis of legislation, and state expenditure,
revenue, and budget review. The director of the agency or the
director's designee may make recommendations to the general assembly
concerning the state's expenditures and revenues.
4. Attendance at the budget hearings required by section 8.26.
The director of the agency may offer explanations or suggestions and
make inquiries with respect to such budget hearings.
5. Assistance to standing committees and members of the general
assembly in attaching fiscal notes to bills and resolutions as
provided by the rules of the general assembly.
6. Performance of the duties pertaining to the preparation of
correctional impact statements as provided in section 2.56.
7. Furnishing information, acting in an advisory capacity,
providing staffing services, and reporting to standing, statutory,
and interim committees of the general assembly.
8. Provision of staffing services including but not limited to
preparation of legal and legislative analysis for the administrative
rules review committee.
9. Preparation of legal and legislative analysis for the
legislative council with respect to rules and forms submitted by the
supreme court to the legislative council pursuant to section
602.4202.
10. Review and oversight of state program operations and program
evaluation of state agencies, including compliance, efficiency, and
effectiveness determinations, as required by section 2A.7.
11. Provision of legislative computer systems services to the
senate, house of representatives, and central legislative staff
agencies, and provision of advice regarding legislative computer
systems services, needs, capabilities, and uses to the legislative
council and the general assembly.
12. Maintenance of an up-to-date listing of all appointments made
or to be made by members of the general assembly as required by
section 2.32A and in accordance with section 69.16B. The legislative
services agency may post on the general assembly's internet site
information regarding the organization and activities of boards,
commissions, councils, and committees to which members of the general
assembly make appointments. Section History: Recent Form
2003 Acts, ch 35, §4, 49; 2008 Acts, ch 1156, §3, 58