69.16A - GENDER BALANCE.
69.16A GENDER BALANCE.
1. All appointive boards, commissions, committees, and councils
of the state established by the Code, if not otherwise provided by
law, shall be gender balanced. No person shall be appointed or
reappointed to any board, commission, committee, or council
established by the Code if that appointment or reappointment would
cause the number of members of the board, commission, committee, or
council of one gender to be greater than one-half the membership of
the board, commission, committee, or council plus one if the board,
commission, committee, or council is composed of an odd number of
members. If the board, commission, committee, or council is composed
of an even number of members, not more than one-half of the
membership shall be of one gender. If there are multiple appointing
authorities for a board, commission, committee, or council, they
shall consult each other to avoid a violation of this section.
2. All appointive boards, commissions, committees, and councils
of a political subdivision of the state that are established by the
Code, if not otherwise provided by law, shall be gender balanced as
provided by subsection 1 unless the political subdivision has made a
good faith effort to appoint a qualified person to fill a vacancy on
a board, commission, committee, or council in compliance with
subsection 1 for a period of three months but has been unable to make
a compliant appointment. In complying with the requirements of this
subsection, political subdivisions shall utilize a fair and unbiased
method of selecting the best qualified applicants. This subsection
shall not prohibit an individual whose term expires prior to January
1, 2012, from being reappointed even though the reappointment
continues an inequity in gender balance. Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 2041; 87 Acts, ch 218, § 8; 88 Acts, ch 1150,
§1; 2009 Acts, ch 162, §1, 2
Referred to in §8A.204, 8A.221, 8D.3, 15.421, 15F.102, 15G.202,
15H.3, 16.191, 28A.7, 28N.2, 35A.2, 46.2A, 80.28, 103A.27, 135.27A,
135.43, 135.109, 135N.4, 142A.3, 142C.16, 148.2A, 161.3, 175A.2,
216A.12, 216A.92A, 216A.162, 217.43, 235B.1, 249A.36, 252B.18,
252B.22, 256.5A, 256.31, 256.35A, 256.61, 272.3, 280A.2, 303.19,
303A.5, 314.22, 455A.20, 455B.150, 514E.2, 542.4
Board of medicine alternate members, see § 148.2A Footnotes
2009 amendments to this section apply on and after January 1,
2012; 2009 Acts, ch 162, §2