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House File 2471

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  1  1                                         HOUSE FILE 2471
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 CONCERNING THE NUMBER OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AND COURT 
  1  5    OF APPEALS JUDGES, AND INCLUDING A CONTINGENT EFFECTIVE
  1  6    DATE.
  1  7 
  1  8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 
  1  9 
  1 10    Section 1.  Section 602.4101, subsection 1, Code 1997, is
  1 11 amended to read as follows:
  1 12    1.  The supreme court consists of nine seven justices.  A
  1 13 majority of the justices sitting constitutes a quorum, but
  1 14 less fewer than three justices is not a quorum.
  1 15    Sec. 2.  Section 602.5102, subsection 1, Code 1997, is
  1 16 amended to read as follows:
  1 17    1.  The court of appeals consists of six nine judges; three
  1 18 judges of the court of appeals constitute a quorum.
  1 19    Sec. 3.  TRANSITION TO SEVEN-MEMBER SUPREME COURT.
  1 20 Notwithstanding section 602.4101, the supreme court shall
  1 21 consist of eight or nine justices until the number of justices
  1 22 is reduced to seven, by attrition, commencing with any vacancy
  1 23 in the supreme court occurring on or after July 1, 1999.  For
  1 24 purposes of this subsection, "vacancy" means the death,
  1 25 resignation, or removal of a justice on the supreme court, or
  1 26 the expiration of a term as a justice on the supreme court
  1 27 following a failure to file a declaration of candidacy
  1 28 pursuant to section 46.20 or a failure to be retained in
  1 29 office pursuant to a judicial election.
  1 30    Sec. 4.  CONTINGENT EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect
  1 31 on July 1, 1999, if an appropriation to the judicial
  1 32 department for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999,
  1 33 provides for the authorization and funding of nine judges of
  1 34 the court of appeals.  
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  2  2                                                             
  2  3                               RON J. CORBETT
  2  4                               Speaker of the House
  2  5 
  2  6 
  2  7                                                             
  2  8                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2  9                               President of the Senate
  2 10 
  2 11    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  2 12 is known as House File 2471, Seventy-seventh General Assembly.
  2 13 
  2 14 
  2 15                                                             
  2 16                               ELIZABETH ISAACSON
  2 17                               Chief Clerk of the House
  2 18 Approved                , 1998
  2 19 
  2 20 
  2 21                         
  2 22 TERRY E. BRANSTAD
  2 23 Governor
     

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