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.
86 Acts, ch 1245, §2041; 87 Acts, ch 218, §8; 88 Acts, ch 1150, §1; 2009 Acts, ch 162, §1, 2
Referred to in §8D.3, 15F.102, 15H.3, 23.3, 28A.7, 35A.2, 80.28, 84A.1A, 84A.4, 135.43, 135.109, 142A.3, 148.2A, 155A.2A, 159A.13, 216A.12, 216A.92A, 216A.132, 216A.162, 217.43, 235B.1, 252B.22, 256.5A, 256.35A, 272.3, 273.15, 284.15, 303A.5, 314.22, 418.5, 455A.20, 455B.150, 514E.2, 542.4, 904A.2A
Structure Iowa Code
Title II - ELECTIONS AND OFFICIAL DUTIES
Chapter 69 - VACANCIES — REMOVAL — TERMS
Section 69.2 - What constitutes vacancy — hearing — appeal.
Section 69.3 - Possession of office.
Section 69.5 - Vacancy in general assembly.
Section 69.6 - Vacancy in state boards.
Section 69.7 - Duty of officer receiving resignation.
Section 69.8 - Vacancies — how filled.
Section 69.9 - Person removed not eligible.
Section 69.11 - Tenure of vacancy appointee.
Section 69.12 - Officers elected to fill vacancies — tenure.
Section 69.13 - Vacancies — senator in Congress and elective state officers.
Section 69.14 - Special election to fill vacancies.
Section 69.14A - Filling vacancy of elected county officer.
Section 69.15 - Board members — nonattendance — vacancy.
Section 69.16 - Appointive boards — political affiliation.
Section 69.16A - Gender balance.
Section 69.16C - Minority representation.
Section 69.16D - Boards and commissions — criteria for establishing.
Section 69.16E - Young adult representation.
Section 69.17 - Employees as members — voting.
Section 69.18 - Salary of acting appointees.
Section 69.19 - Terms of appointments confirmed by the senate.