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