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House Amendment 5922

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  1  1    Amend House File 2458, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 2, by striking lines 14 and 15 and
  1  4 inserting the following:
  1  5    "An attorney who has not entered into a contract
  1  6 authorized under section 13B.4 and who is appointed by
  1  7 the court to".
  1  8    #2.  Page 2, by striking lines 24 through 28 and
  1  9 inserting the following:  "and necessary briefs in
  1 10 behalf of the defendant.  Such attorney need not
  1 11 follow the case".
  1 12    #3.  By striking page 4, line 28, through page 5,
  1 13 line 12.
  1 14    #4.  Page 5, by inserting after line 12 the
  1 15 following:
  1 16    "Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  901A.1  CORRECTIONS
  1 17 CONTINUUM – INTERMEDIATE CRIMINAL SANCTIONS PROGRAM.
  1 18    1.  The corrections continuum consists of the
  1 19 following:
  1 20    a.  LEVEL ONE.  Noncommunity-based corrections
  1 21 sanctions including the following:
  1 22    (1)  SELF-MONITORED SANCTIONS.  Self-monitored
  1 23 sanctions which are not monitored for compliance
  1 24 including, but not limited to, fines and community
  1 25 service.
  1 26    (2)  OTHER THAN SELF-MONITORED SANCTIONS.  Other
  1 27 than self-monitored sanctions which are monitored for
  1 28 compliance by other than the district department of
  1 29 correctional services including, but not limited to,
  1 30 mandatory mediation, victim and offender
  1 31 reconciliation, and noncommunity-based corrections
  1 32 supervision.
  1 33    b.  LEVEL TWO.  Probation and parole options
  1 34 consisting of the following:
  1 35    (1)  MONITORED SANCTIONS.  Monitored sanctions are
  1 36 administrative supervision sanctions which are
  1 37 monitored for compliance by the district department of
  1 38 correctional services and include, but are not limited
  1 39 to, low-risk offender-diversion programs.
  1 40    (2)  SUPERVISED SANCTIONS.  Supervised sanctions
  1 41 are regular probation or parole supervision and any
  1 42 conditions established in the probation or parole
  1 43 agreement or by court order.
  1 44    (3)  INTENSIVE SUPERVISION SANCTIONS.  Intensive
  1 45 supervision sanctions provide levels of supervision
  1 46 above sanctions in subparagraph (2) but are less
  1 47 restrictive than sanctions under paragraph "c" and
  1 48 include electronic monitoring, day reporting, day
  1 49 programming, live out programs for persons on work
  1 50 release or who have violated chapter 321J, and
  2  1 institutional work release under section 904.910.
  2  2    c.  LEVEL THREE.  Quasi-incarceration sanctions.
  2  3 Quasi-incarceration sanctions are those supported by
  2  4 residential facility placement or twenty-four hour
  2  5 electronic monitoring including, but not limited to,
  2  6 the following:
  2  7    (1)  Residential treatment facilities.
  2  8    (2)  Operating while intoxicated offender treatment
  2  9 facilities.
  2 10    (3)  Work release facilities.
  2 11    (4)  House arrest with electronic monitoring.
  2 12    d.  LEVEL FOUR.  Short-term incarceration designed
  2 13 to be of short duration, including, but not limited
  2 14 to, the following:
  2 15    (1)  Twenty-one-day shock probation for persons who
  2 16 violate chapter 321J.
  2 17    (2)  Jail for less than thirty days.
  2 18    (3)  Violators' facilities.
  2 19    e.  LEVEL FIVE.  Incarceration which consists of
  2 20 the following:
  2 21    (1)  Prison.
  2 22    (2)  Jail for thirty days or longer.
  2 23    2.  "Intermediate criminal sanctions program" means
  2 24 a program structured around the corrections continuum
  2 25 in subsection 1, describing sanctions and services
  2 26 available in each level of the continuum in the
  2 27 district and containing the policies of the district
  2 28 department of correctional services regarding
  2 29 placement of a person in a particular level of
  2 30 sanction and the requirements and conditions under
  2 31 which a defendant will be transferred between levels
  2 32 in the corrections continuum under the program.
  2 33    3.  An intermediate criminal sanctions program
  2 34 shall consist of only levels two, three, and four of
  2 35 the corrections continuum and shall be operated in
  2 36 accordance with an intermediate criminal sanctions
  2 37 plan adopted by the chief judge of the judicial
  2 38 district and the director of the judicial district
  2 39 department of correctional services.  The plan adopted
  2 40 shall be designed to reduce probation revocations to
  2 41 prison through the use of incremental, community-based
  2 42 sanctions for probation violations.
  2 43    The plan shall be subject to rules adopted by the
  2 44 department of corrections.  The rules shall include
  2 45 provisions for transferring individuals between levels
  2 46 in the continuum.  The provisions shall include a
  2 47 requirement that the reasons for the transfer be in
  2 48 writing and that an opportunity for the individual to
  2 49 contest the transfer be made available.
  2 50    A copy of the program and plan shall be filed with
  3  1 the chief judge of the judicial district, the
  3  2 department of corrections, and the division of
  3  3 criminal and juvenile justice planning of the
  3  4 department of human rights.
  3  5    4.  a.  The district department of correctional
  3  6 services shall place an individual committed to it
  3  7 under section 907.3 to the sanction and level of
  3  8 supervision which is appropriate to the individual
  3  9 based upon a current risk assessment evaluation.
  3 10 Placements may be to levels two and three of the
  3 11 corrections continuum.  The district department may,
  3 12 with the approval of the department of corrections,
  3 13 place an individual in a level four violator facility
  3 14 established pursuant to section 904.207 or use twenty-
  3 15 one-day shock probation under subsection 1, paragraph
  3 16 "d", subparagraph (1), only as a penalty for a
  3 17 violation of a condition imposed under this section.
  3 18    b.  The district department may transfer an
  3 19 individual along the intermediate criminal sanctions
  3 20 program operated pursuant to subsection 3 as necessary
  3 21 and appropriate during the period the individual is
  3 22 assigned to the district department.  However, nothing
  3 23 in this section shall limit the district department's
  3 24 ability to seek a revocation of the individual's
  3 25 probation pursuant to section 908.11.
  3 26    Sec.    .  Section 905.1, subsection 2, Code 1995,
  3 27 is amended to read as follows:
  3 28    2.  "Community-based correctional program" means
  3 29 correctional programs and services, including but not
  3 30 limited to an intermediate criminal sanctions program
  3 31 in accordance with the corrections continuum in
  3 32 section 901A.1, designed to supervise and assist
  3 33 individuals who are charged with or have been
  3 34 convicted of a felony, an aggravated misdemeanor or a
  3 35 serious misdemeanor, or who are on probation or parole
  3 36 in lieu of or as a result of a sentence of
  3 37 incarceration imposed upon conviction of any of these
  3 38 offenses, or who are contracted to the district
  3 39 department for supervision and housing while on work
  3 40 release.
  3 41    An intermediate criminal sanctions program shall be
  3 42 designed by a district department in a manner that
  3 43 provides services in a manner free of disparities
  3 44 based upon an individual's race or ethnic origin.
  3 45    Sec.    .  Section 907.3, subsection 1, unnumbered
  3 46 paragraph 1, Code Supplement 1995, is amended to read
  3 47 as follows:
  3 48    With the consent of the defendant, the court may
  3 49 defer judgment and may place the defendant on
  3 50 probation upon such conditions as it may require.
  4  1 Upon a showing that the defendant is not co-operating
  4  2 cooperating with the program of probation or is not
  4  3 responding to it, the court may withdraw the defendant
  4  4 from the program, pronounce judgment, and impose any
  4  5 sentence authorized by law.  Before taking such
  4  6 action, the court shall give the defendant an
  4  7 opportunity to be heard on any matter relevant to the
  4  8 proposed action.  Upon fulfillment of the conditions
  4  9 of probation, the defendant shall be discharged
  4 10 without entry of judgment.  Upon violation of the
  4 11 conditions of probation, the court may proceed as
  4 12 provided in chapter 908.
  4 13    Sec.    .  Section 907.3, subsection 2, Code
  4 14 Supplement 1995, is amended to read as follows:
  4 15    2.  At the time of or after pronouncing judgment
  4 16 and with the consent of the defendant, the court may
  4 17 defer the sentence and assign the defendant to the
  4 18 judicial district department of correctional services.
  4 19 The court may assign the defendant to supervision or
  4 20 services under section 901A.1 at the level of
  4 21 supervision which the district department determines
  4 22 to be appropriate, if an intermediate criminal
  4 23 sanctions plan and program has been adopted in the
  4 24 judicial district under section 901A.1.  However, the
  4 25 court shall not defer the sentence for a violation of
  4 26 section 708.2A if the defendant has previously
  4 27 received a deferred judgment or sentence for a
  4 28 violation of section 708.2 or 708.2A which was issued
  4 29 on a domestic abuse assault, or if similar relief was
  4 30 granted anywhere in the United States concerning that
  4 31 jurisdiction's statutes which substantially correspond
  4 32 to domestic abuse assault as provided in section
  4 33 708.2A.  In addition, the court shall not defer a
  4 34 sentence if it is imposed for a conviction for or plea
  4 35 of guilty to a violation of section 236.8 or for
  4 36 contempt pursuant to section 236.8 or 236.14.  Upon a
  4 37 showing that the defendant is not fulfilling the
  4 38 conditions of probation, the court may revoke
  4 39 probation and impose any sentence authorized by law.
  4 40 Before taking such action, the court shall give the
  4 41 defendant an opportunity to be heard on any matter
  4 42 relevant to the proposed action.  Upon violation of
  4 43 the conditions of probation, the court may proceed as
  4 44 provided in chapter 908.
  4 45    Sec.    .  Section 907.3, subsection 3, Code
  4 46 Supplement 1995, is amended to read as follows:
  4 47    3.  By record entry at the time of or after
  4 48 sentencing, the court may suspend the sentence and
  4 49 place the defendant on probation upon such terms and
  4 50 conditions as it may require including commitment to
  5  1 an alternate jail facility or a community correctional
  5  2 residential treatment facility for a specific number
  5  3 of days to be followed by a term of probation as
  5  4 specified in section 907.7, or commitment of the
  5  5 defendant to the judicial district department of
  5  6 correctional services for supervision or services
  5  7 under section 901A.1 at the level of supervision which
  5  8 the district department determines to be appropriate.
  5  9 A person so committed who has probation revoked shall
  5 10 be given credit for such time served.  However, the
  5 11 court shall not suspend the minimum term of two days
  5 12 imposed pursuant to section 708.2A, and the court
  5 13 shall not suspend a sentence imposed pursuant to
  5 14 section 236.8 or 236.14 for contempt.
  5 15    Sec.    .  Section 907.6, Code 1995, is amended to
  5 16 read as follows:
  5 17    907.6  CONDITIONS OF PROBATION – REGULATIONS.
  5 18    Probationers are subject to the conditions
  5 19 established by the judicial district department of
  5 20 correctional services subject to the approval of the
  5 21 court, and any additional reasonable conditions which
  5 22 the court or district department may impose to promote
  5 23 rehabilitation of the defendant or protection of the
  5 24 community.  Conditions may include but are not limited
  5 25 to adherence to regulations generally applicable to
  5 26 persons released on parole and including requiring
  5 27 unpaid community service as allowed pursuant to
  5 28 section 907.13."
  5 29    #5.  Page 6, by inserting after line 18 the
  5 30 following:
  5 31    "Sec.    .  Section 910.4, Code Supplement 1995, is
  5 32 amended to read as follows:
  5 33    910.4  CONDITION OF PROBATION – PAYMENT PLAN.
  5 34    1.  When restitution is ordered by the sentencing
  5 35 court and the offender is placed on probation,
  5 36 restitution shall be a condition of probation.
  5 37    a.  Failure of the offender to comply with the plan
  5 38 of restitution, plan of payment, or community service
  5 39 requirements when community service is ordered by the
  5 40 court as restitution, shall constitute a violation of
  5 41 probation and shall constitute contempt of court.
  5 42    b.  The If an offender fails to comply with
  5 43 restitution requirements during probation, the court
  5 44 may hold the offender in contempt, revoke probation,
  5 45 or extend the period of probation, or upon notice of
  5 46 such noncompliance and hearing thereon, the court may
  5 47 enter a civil judgment against the offender for the
  5 48 outstanding balance of payments under the plan of
  5 49 restitution and such judgment shall be governed by the
  5 50 law relating to judgments, judgment liens, executions,
  6  1 and other process available to creditors for the
  6  2 collection of debts.
  6  3    (1)  However, if If the court extends the period of
  6  4 probation, is extended it shall not be for more than
  6  5 the maximum period of probation for the offense
  6  6 committed as provided in section 907.7.  After
  6  7 discharge from probation or after the expiration of
  6  8 the period of probation, the failure of an offender to
  6  9 comply with the plan of restitution ordered by the
  6 10 court shall constitute contempt of court.  As part of
  6 11 the order discharging an offender from probation, the
  6 12 court shall enter a civil judgment against the
  6 13 offender for the balance, if any, of any restitution
  6 14 owed by the offender to the victim of the crime.
  6 15    (2)  If an offender's probation is revoked, the
  6 16 offender's assigned probation officer shall forward to
  6 17 the director of the Iowa department of corrections,
  6 18 information concerning the offender's restitution
  6 19 plan, restitution plan of payment, the restitution
  6 20 payment balance, and any other pertinent information
  6 21 concerning or affecting restitution by the offender.
  6 22    2.  When the offender is committed to a county
  6 23 jail, or to an alternate facility, the office or
  6 24 individual charged with supervision of the offender
  6 25 shall prepare a restitution plan of payment taking
  6 26 into consideration the offender's income, physical and
  6 27 mental health, age, education, employment and family
  6 28 circumstances.
  6 29    a.  The office or individual charged with
  6 30 supervision of the offender shall review the plan of
  6 31 restitution ordered by the court, and shall submit a
  6 32 restitution plan of payment to the sentencing court.
  6 33    b.  When community service is ordered by the court
  6 34 as restitution, the restitution plan of payment shall
  6 35 set out a plan to meet the requirement for the
  6 36 community service.
  6 37    c.  The court may approve or modify the plan of
  6 38 restitution and restitution plan of payment.
  6 39    d.  When there is a significant change in the
  6 40 offender's income or circumstances, the office or
  6 41 individual which has supervision of the plan of
  6 42 payment shall submit a modified restitution plan of
  6 43 payment to the court.
  6 44    3.  When there is a transfer of supervision from
  6 45 one office or individual charged with supervision of
  6 46 the offender to another, the sending office or
  6 47 individual shall forward to the receiving office or
  6 48 individual all necessary information regarding the
  6 49 balance owed against the original amount of
  6 50 restitution ordered and the balance of public service
  7  1 required.
  7  2    When the offender's circumstances and income have
  7  3 significantly changed, the receiving office or
  7  4 individual shall submit a new plan of payment to the
  7  5 sentencing court for approval or modification based on
  7  6 the considerations enumerated in this section.
  7  7    Sec.    .  Section 910.5, Code Supplement 1995, is
  7  8 amended to read as follows:
  7  9    910.5  CONDITION OF WORK RELEASE OR PAROLE.
  7 10    1.  a.  When an offender is committed to the
  7 11 custody of the director of the Iowa department of
  7 12 corrections pursuant to a sentence of confinement, the
  7 13 sentencing court shall forward to the director, a copy
  7 14 of the offender's restitution plan, present
  7 15 restitution payment plan if any, and other pertinent
  7 16 information concerning or affecting restitution by the
  7 17 offender.
  7 18    b.  However, if If the offender is committed to the
  7 19 custody of the director after revocation of probation,
  7 20 this all information regarding the offender's
  7 21 restitution plan shall be forwarded by the offender's
  7 22 probation officer.
  7 23    c.  An offender committed to a penal or
  7 24 correctional facility of the state shall make
  7 25 restitution while placed in that facility.
  7 26    d.  Upon commitment to the custody of the director
  7 27 of the Iowa department of corrections, the director or
  7 28 the director's designee shall prepare a restitution
  7 29 plan of payment or modify any existing plan of
  7 30 payment.
  7 31    (1)  The new or modified plan of payment shall
  7 32 reflect the offender's present circumstances
  7 33 concerning the offender's income, physical and mental
  7 34 health, education, employment, and family
  7 35 circumstances.
  7 36    (2)  The director or the director's designee may
  7 37 modify the plan of payment at any time to reflect the
  7 38 offender's present circumstances.
  7 39    e.  After the expiration of the offender's
  7 40 sentence, the failure of an offender to comply with
  7 41 the plan of restitution ordered by the court shall
  7 42 constitute contempt of court.  Upon the expiration of
  7 43 the offender's sentence, the department shall notify
  7 44 the court which sentenced the offender and the court
  7 45 shall enter a civil judgment against the offender for
  7 46 the balance, if any, of any restitution owed by the
  7 47 offender to the victim of the crime.
  7 48    2.  If an offender is to be placed on work release
  7 49 from an institution under the control of the director
  7 50 of the Iowa department of corrections, restitution
  8  1 shall be a condition of work release.
  8  2    a.  The chief of the bureau of community
  8  3 correctional services of the Iowa department of
  8  4 corrections shall prepare a restitution plan of
  8  5 payment or may modify any previously existing
  8  6 restitution plan of payment.
  8  7    (1)  The new or modified plan of payment shall
  8  8 reflect the offender's present circumstances
  8  9 concerning the offender's income, physical and mental
  8 10 health, education, employment, and family
  8 11 circumstances.
  8 12    (2)  The bureau chief may modify the plan of
  8 13 payment at any time to reflect the offender's present
  8 14 circumstances.
  8 15    b.  Failure of the offender to comply with the
  8 16 restitution plan of payment, including the community
  8 17 service requirement, if any, shall constitute a
  8 18 violation of a condition of work release and the work
  8 19 release privilege may be revoked.
  8 20    c.  After the expiration of the offender's
  8 21 sentence, the failure of an offender to comply with
  8 22 the plan of restitution ordered by the court shall
  8 23 constitute contempt of court.  Upon the expiration of
  8 24 the offender's sentence, the bureau chief shall notify
  8 25 the court which sentenced the offender and the court
  8 26 shall enter a civil judgment against the offender for
  8 27 the balance, if any, of any restitution owed by the
  8 28 offender to the victim of the crime.
  8 29    3.  If an offender is to be placed on work release
  8 30 from a facility under control of a county sheriff or
  8 31 the judicial district department of correctional
  8 32 services, restitution shall be a condition of work
  8 33 release.
  8 34    a.  The office or individual charged with
  8 35 supervision of the offender shall prepare a
  8 36 restitution plan of payment or may modify any
  8 37 previously existing restitution plan of payment.
  8 38    (1)  The new or modified plan of payment shall
  8 39 reflect the offender's present circumstances
  8 40 concerning the offender's income, physical and mental
  8 41 health, education, employment and family
  8 42 circumstances.
  8 43    (2)  Failure of the offender to comply with the
  8 44 restitution plan of payment including the community
  8 45 service requirement, if any, constitutes a violation
  8 46 of a condition of work release.
  8 47    (3)  The office or individual charged with
  8 48 supervision of the offender may modify the plan of
  8 49 restitution at any time to reflect the offender's
  8 50 present circumstances.
  9  1    b.  After the expiration of the offender's
  9  2 sentence, the failure of an offender to comply with
  9  3 the plan of restitution ordered by the court shall
  9  4 constitute contempt of court.  Upon the expiration of
  9  5 the offender's sentence, the office or individual
  9  6 charged with supervision of the offender shall notify
  9  7 the court which sentenced the offender and the court
  9  8 shall enter a civil judgment against the offender for
  9  9 the balance, if any, of any restitution owed by the
  9 10 offender to the victim of the crime.
  9 11    4.  If an offender is to be placed on parole,
  9 12 restitution shall be a condition of parole.
  9 13    a.  The district department of correctional
  9 14 services to which the offender will be assigned shall
  9 15 prepare a restitution plan of payment or may modify
  9 16 any previously existing restitution plan of payment.
  9 17    (1)  The new or modified plan of payment shall
  9 18 reflect the offender's present circumstances
  9 19 concerning the offender's income, physical and mental
  9 20 health, education, employment, and family
  9 21 circumstances.
  9 22    (2)  Failure of the offender to comply with the
  9 23 restitution plan of payment including a community
  9 24 service requirement, if any, shall constitute a
  9 25 violation of a condition of parole.
  9 26    (3)  The parole officer may modify the plan of
  9 27 payment any time to reflect the offender's present
  9 28 circumstances.
  9 29    (4)  A restitution plan of payment or modified plan
  9 30 of payment, prepared by a parole officer, must meet
  9 31 the approval of the director of the district
  9 32 department of correctional services.
  9 33    b.  After the expiration of the offender's
  9 34 sentence, the failure of an offender to comply with
  9 35 the plan of restitution ordered by the court shall
  9 36 constitute contempt of court.  Upon the expiration of
  9 37 the offender's sentence, the parole officer shall
  9 38 notify the court which sentenced the offender and the
  9 39 court shall enter a civil judgment against the
  9 40 offender for the balance, if any, of any restitution
  9 41 owed by the offender to the victim of the crime.
  9 42    5.  The director of the Iowa department of
  9 43 corrections shall promulgate adopt rules pursuant to
  9 44 chapter 17A concerning the policies and procedures to
  9 45 be used in preparing and implementing restitution
  9 46 plans of payment for offenders who are committed to an
  9 47 institution under the control of the director of the
  9 48 Iowa department of corrections, for offenders who are
  9 49 to be released on work release from institutions under
  9 50 the control of the director of the Iowa department of
 10  1 corrections, for offenders who are placed on
 10  2 probation, and for offenders who are released on
 10  3 parole."
 10  4    #6.  By renumbering, relettering, or redesignating
 10  5 and correcting internal references as necessary.  
 10  6 HF 2458S
 10  7 mk/cc/26
     

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