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House Journal: Page 1159: Thursday, April 10, 1997

15   conduct and condition.  Probation officers shall keep
16   records of their work and, unless section 907.8A
17   applies, shall make reports to the court when alleged
18   violations occur and within no less than thirty days
19   before the period of probation will expire.  If
20   section 907.8A applies, the probation officers shall
21   make the reports of alleged violations to the
22   administrative parole and probation judge within no
23   less than thirty days before the period of probation
24   will expire.  Probation officers shall coordinate
25   their work with other social welfare agencies which
26   offer services of a corrective nature operating in the
27   area to which they are assigned.
28     Sec. 6.  Section 907.7, unnumbered paragraphs 1 and
29   2, Code 1997, are amended to read as follows:
30     The length of the probation shall be for such term
31   as the court may shall fix but not to exceed five
32   years if the offense is a felony or not to exceed two
33   years if the offense is a misdemeanor.
34     The length of the probation shall not be less than
35   one year if the offense is a misdemeanor and shall not
36   be less than two years if the offense is a felony.
37   However, the court or the administrative parole and
38   probation judge, if section 907.8A applies, may
39   subsequently reduce the length of the probation if the
40   court or the administrative parole and probation judge
41   determines that the purposes of probation have been
42   fulfilled.  The purposes of probation are to provide
43   maximum opportunity for the rehabilitation of the
44   defendant and to protect the community from further
45   offenses by the defendant and others.
46     Sec. 7.  Section 907.8, unnumbered paragraph 3,
47   Code 1997, is amended to read as follows:
48     Jurisdiction of Except as otherwise provided in
49   section 907.8A, the court shall retain jurisdiction
50   over these persons shall remain with the sentencing

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 1   court.  Jurisdiction may be transferred to a court
in
 2   another jurisdiction, or to the administrative parole
 3   and probation judge under section 907.8A, if a
 4   person's probation supervision is transferred to a
 5   judicial district department of correctional services
 6   in a district other than the district in which the
 7   person was sentenced.
 8     Sec. 8.  NEW SECTION.  907.8A  SIXTH JUDICIAL
 9   DISTRICT - DETERMINATION OF ISSUES DURING
10   PROBATIONARY PERIOD.
11     1.  Except for those persons who are granted a
12   deferred judgment or deferred sentence, for each
13   adult, and each juvenile who has been prosecuted,
14   convicted, and sentenced as an adult, who is released

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