256.5A - NONVOTING MEMBER.
256.5A NONVOTING MEMBER.
The governor shall appoint the one nonvoting student member of the
state board for a term of one year beginning and ending as provided
in section 69.19. The nonvoting student member shall be appointed
from a list of names submitted by the state board of education.
Students enrolled in either grade ten or eleven in a public school
may apply to the state board to serve as a nonvoting student member.
The department shall develop an application process that requires the
consent of the student's parent or guardian if the student is a
minor, initial application approval by the school district in which
the student applicant is enrolled, and submission of approved
applications by a school district to the department. The nonvoting
student member's school district of enrollment shall notify the
student's parents if the student's grade point average falls during
the period in which the student is a member of the state board. The
state board shall adopt rules under chapter 17A specifying criteria
for the selection of applicants whose names shall be submitted to the
governor. Criteria shall include, but are not limited to, academic
excellence, participation in extracurricular and community
activities, and interest in serving on the board. Rules adopted by
the state board shall also require, if the student is a minor,
supervision of the student by the student's parent or guardian while
the student is engaged in authorized state board business at a
location other than the community in which the student resides,
unless the student's parent or guardian submits to the state board a
signed release indicating the parent or guardian has determined that
supervision of the student by the parent or guardian is unnecessary.
The nonvoting student member appointment is not subject to section
69.16 or 69.16A. The nonvoting student member shall have been
enrolled in a public school in Iowa for at least one year prior to
the member's appointment. A nonvoting student member who will not
graduate from high school prior to the end of a second term may apply
to the state board for submission of candidacy to the governor for a
second one-year term. A nonvoting student member shall be paid a per
diem as provided in section 7E.6 and the student and the student's
parent or guardian shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary
expenses incurred in the performance of the student's duties as a
nonvoting member of the state board. A vacancy in the membership of
the nonvoting student member shall not be filled until the expiration
of the term. Section History: Recent Form
2002 Acts, ch 1140, §3; 2003 Acts, ch 180, §1
Referred to in § 256.3