256.82 - BOARD -- ADVISORY COMMITTEES.
256.82 BOARD -- ADVISORY COMMITTEES.
1. The Iowa public broadcasting board is created to plan,
establish, and operate educational radio and television facilities
and other telecommunications services to serve the educational needs
of the state. The board shall be composed of nine members selected
in the following manner:
a. Four members shall be appointed by the governor so that
the portion of the board membership appointed under this paragraph
includes two male board members and two female board members at all
times:
(1) One member shall be appointed from the business community
other than the television and telecommunications industry.
(2) One member shall be appointed with experience in or knowledge
about the television industry.
(3) One member shall be appointed from the membership of a
fund-raising nonprofit organization financially assisting the Iowa
public broadcasting division.
(4) One member shall represent the general public.
b. Five members shall be selected in the manner provided in
this paragraph and the gender balance of the membership shall be
coordinated among the associations and boards making the appointments
so that not more than three members serving under this paragraph at
the same time are of the same gender.
(1) One member shall be appointed by the state association of
private colleges and universities.
(2) One member shall be appointed jointly by the superintendents
of the community colleges created by chapter 260C.
(3) One member shall be appointed jointly by the administrators
of the area education agencies created by chapter 273.
(4) One member shall be appointed by the state board of regents.
(5) One member shall be appointed by the state board of
education.
2. Board members shall serve a three-year term commencing on July
1 of the year of appointment. A vacancy shall be filled in the same
manner as the original appointment for the remainder of the term.
Membership on the board does not constitute holding a public
office and members shall not be required to take and file oaths of
office before serving. A member shall not be disqualified from
holding any public office or employment by reason of appointment to
the board nor shall a member forfeit an office or employment by
reason of appointment to the board.
3. The board shall appoint an advisory committee on journalistic
and editorial integrity which has no more than a simple majority of
members of the same gender. The division shall be governed by the
national principles of editorial integrity developed by the editorial
integrity project.
Duties of the advisory committee, and of additional advisory
committees the board may from time to time appoint, shall be
specified in rules of internal management adopted by the board.
Members of advisory committees shall receive actual expenses
incurred in performing their official duties. Section History: Recent Form
93 Acts, ch 48, §39; 94 Acts, ch 1184, §22; 2006 Acts, ch 1185,
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