SSB 3008

_____ This bill relates to the membership, procedures, and functions of the Iowa council on homelessness (council). Under current law, the council has voting members consisting of members of the general public (public) and agency directors. Under the bill, there are members consisting of voting members from the public and nonvoting agency directors. Under the bill, the directors of the economic development authority, the department of human rights, the department of public safety, and the department of veterans affairs are no longer members of the committee. Under current law, the nominating committee (committee) is comprised of the agency directors, unless the composition of the committee is modified by rule. The bill requires the council to annually elect five members to the committee, at least two of whom must be nonvoting members and at least two of whom must be voting members. Under current law, a majority of the members of the council constitute a quorum and any action taken by the council must be adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of its membership. Under the bill, seven voting members of the council constitute a quorum and any action taken by the council requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the quorum. The majority cannot include any member who has a conflict of interest and a statement by a member who asserts a conflict of interest is conclusive for this purpose. Under current law, the council is required to elect a chairperson and vice chairperson and each serves a two-year term. Under the bill, each serves a one-year term. The bill eliminates the council’s duties to use existing resources to prevent persons from becoming homeless and to eliminate factors that keep people homeless, and to identify and use federal and other funding to address and reduce homelessness within the state. _____ the council assist in the completion of the state’s continuum of care application to the United States department of housing and urban development. Current law requires the council to file a report on homelessness with the governor and the general assembly in odd-numbered years. The bill requires the council to file an annual point-in-time report on homelessness in Iowa with the governor and the general assembly.2D, Code 2022, and any provision as enacted in this bill to the contrary, the term of all members of the general public who currently serve on the council shall terminate effective July 1, 2022. The governor shall appoint members of the public to the council from names submitted by a committee comprised of all eight agency director members of the council. It is the intent of the general assembly that the governor should appoint at least eight members of the public whose terms terminate July 1, 2022, in the interest of maintaining institutional knowledge on the council. All new general public members shall be appointed on or before September 1, 2022, with five members appointed to terms ending on June 30, 2023, and six members appointed to terms ending on June 30, 2024. All terms beginning on or after July 1, 2023, are for two years as detailed in the bill.