2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 303 - DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
303.3A - ARTS AND CULTURAL CONFERENCES AND CAUCUSES.

        303.3A  ARTS AND CULTURAL CONFERENCES AND CAUCUSES.
         1.  For the purposes of this section, the following definitions
      apply:
         a.  "Arts" means music, dance, theater, opera and music
      theater, visual arts, literature, design arts, media arts, and folk
      and traditional arts.
         b.  "Culture" or "cultural" means programs and activities
      which explore past and present human experience.
         c.  "Department" means the department of cultural affairs.
         d.  "Enhancement" means programs that allow arts and cultural
      organizations to improve or enhance the quality of programs currently
      offered, and increase and support professional and student artists
      and arts educators.
         e.  "Outreach" means programs that increase rural access to
      cultural resources, social awareness, cultural diversity, and which
      serve special populations.
         2.  The department shall administer regional conferences and a
      statewide caucus on arts and cultural enhancement.  The purpose of
      the conferences and caucus is to encourage the development of the
      arts and culture in the state by identifying opportunities for
      programs involving education, outreach, and enhancement; by reviewing
      possible changes in enhancement program policies, programs, and
      funding; and by making recommendations to the department regarding
      funding allocations and priorities for arts and cultural enhancement.

         3.  Every four years beginning in June 2001, the department shall
      convene a statewide caucus on arts and cultural enhancement.
         a.  Prior to the statewide caucus, the department shall make
      arrangements to hold a conference in each of several regions of the
      state as determined by the Iowa arts council.  The department shall
      promote attendance of interested persons at each conference.  A
      designee of the department shall serve as temporary chairperson until
      persons attending the conference elect a chairperson.  The department
      shall provide persons attending the conference with current
      information regarding cultural programs and expenditures.  Persons
      attending the conference shall identify opportunities for programs in
      the areas of education, outreach, and enhancement, and make
      recommendations in the form of a resolution.  The persons attending
      the conference shall elect six persons from among the attendees to
      serve as regional, voting delegates to the statewide caucus.  The
      conference attendees shall elect a chairperson from among the six
      representatives.  Other interested persons are encouraged to attend
      the statewide caucus as nonvoting attendees.
         b.  The department shall charge a reasonable fee for
      attendance at the statewide caucus on arts and cultural enhancement.

         c.  A designee of the department shall call the statewide
      caucus to order and serve as temporary chairperson until persons
      attending the caucus elect a chairperson.  Persons attending the
      caucus shall discuss the recommendations of the regional conferences
      and decide upon recommendations to be made to the department and the
      general assembly.  Elected chairpersons of the regional conferences
      shall meet with representatives of the department and present the
      recommendations of the caucus.  

         98 Acts, ch 1215, §54