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House File 660

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  1  1                                    HOUSE FILE 660     
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO CERTAIN PROPERTY OF A DEBTOR WHICH IS EXEMPT FROM
  1  5    EXECUTION, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND FOR THE ACT'S
  1  6    APPLICABILITY.  
  1  7 
  1  8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1  9 
  1 10    Section 1.  Section 627.6, subsection 8, paragraph a, Code
  1 11 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  1 12    a.  A social security benefit, unemployment compensation,
  1 13 or a local any public assistance benefit.
  1 14    Sec. 2.  Section 627.6, subsection 8, Code 1999, is amended
  1 15 by adding the following new paragraph:
  1 16    NEW PARAGRAPH.  f.  Contributions and assets, including the
  1 17 accumulated earnings and market increases in value, in any of
  1 18 the plans or contracts as follows:
  1 19    (1)  Transfers from a retirement plan qualified under the
  1 20 Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), as
  1 21 codified at 29 U.S.C. } 1001 et seq., to another ERISA-
  1 22 qualified plan or to another pension or retirement plan
  1 23 authorized under federal law, as described in subparagraph
  1 24 (3).
  1 25    (2)  Retirement plans established pursuant to qualified
  1 26 domestic relations orders, as defined in 26 U.S.C. } 414.
  1 27 However, nothing in this section shall be construed as making
  1 28 any retirement plan exempt from the claims of the beneficiary
  1 29 of a qualified domestic relations order or from claims for
  1 30 child support or alimony.
  1 31    (3)  For simplified employee pension plans, self-employed
  1 32 pension plans, Keogh plans (also known as H.R. 10 plans),
  1 33 individual retirement accounts, Roth individual retirement
  1 34 accounts, savings incentive matched plans for employees,
  1 35 salary reduction simplified employee pension plans (also known
  2  1 as SARSEPs), and similar plans for retirement investments
  2  2 authorized in the future under federal law, the exemption for
  2  3 contributions shall not exceed, for each tax year of
  2  4 contributions, the actual amount of the contribution or two
  2  5 thousand dollars, whichever is less.  The exemption for
  2  6 accumulated earnings and market increases in value of plans
  2  7 under this subparagraph shall be limited to an amount
  2  8 determined by multiplying all the accumulated earnings and
  2  9 market increases in value by a fraction, the numerator of
  2 10 which is the total amount of exempt contributions as
  2 11 determined by this subparagraph, and the denominator of which
  2 12 is the total of exempt and nonexempt contributions to the
  2 13 plan.
  2 14    For purposes of this paragraph "f", "market increases in
  2 15 value" shall include, but shall not be limited to, dividends,
  2 16 stock splits, interest, and appreciation.  "Contributions"
  2 17 means contributions by the debtor and by the debtor's
  2 18 employer.
  2 19    Sec. 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE AND APPLICABILITY.  This Act, being
  2 20 deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment,
  2 21 and shall apply to all claims of exemption under this section
  2 22 made on or after the day of enactment.  
  2 23 
  2 24 
  2 25                                                             
  2 26                               BRENT SIEGRIST
  2 27                               Speaker of the House
  2 28 
  2 29 
  2 30                                                             
  2 31                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2 32                               President of the Senate
  2 33 
  2 34    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  2 35 is known as House File 660, Seventy-eighth General Assembly.
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  3  2 
  3  3                                                             
  3  4                               ELIZABETH ISAACSON
  3  5                               Chief Clerk of the House
  3  6 Approved                , 1999
  3  7 
  3  8 
  3  9                               
  3 10 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  3 11 Governor
     

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