256.5A Nonvoting member.

1. a. The governor shall appoint the one nonvoting student member of the state board for a term of one year if the student is enrolled in grade eleven or for a term of two years if the student is enrolled in grade ten. The term shall begin and end 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.

b. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. The nonvoting student member appointment is not subject to section 69.16 or 69.16A.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. A vacancy in the membership of the nonvoting student member shall not be filled until the expiration of the term.

2002 Acts, ch 1140, §3; 2003 Acts, ch 180, §1; 2013 Acts, ch 88, §1

Referred to in §256.3