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PAG LIN 1 1 HOUSE FILE 713 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 RELATING TO PROTECTIVE ORDERS FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE. 1 5 1 6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 7 1 8 Section 1. Section 236.5, subsection 2, paragraph e, 1 9 unnumbered paragraph 2, Code 1999, is amended to read as 1 10 follows: 1 11 An order for counseling, a protection order, or approved 1 12 consent agreement shall be for a fixed period of time not to 1 13 exceed one year. The court may amend or extend its order or a 1 14 consent agreement at any time upon a petition filed by either 1 15 party and after notice and hearing. The court may extend the 1 16 order if the court, after hearing, at which the defendant has 1 17 the opportunity to be heard, finds that the defendant 1 18 continues to pose a threat to the safety of the victim, 1 19 persons residing with the victim, or members of the victim's 1 20 immediate family. At the time of the extension, the parties 1 21 need not meet the requirement in section 236.2, subsection 2, 1 22 paragraph "d", that the parties lived together during the last 1 23 year if the parties met the requirements of section 236.2, 1 24 subsection 2, paragraph "d", at the time of the original 1 25 order. The number of extensions that can be granted by the 1 26 court is not limited. 1 27 Sec. 2. Section 236.19, subsection 2, Code 1999, is 1 28 amended to read as follows: 1 29 2. A copy of a permanent foreign protective order 1 30 authenticated in accordance with the statutes of this state 1 31 may be filed with the clerk of the district courtof thein 1 32 any county in which the person in whose favor the order was 1 33 enteredresidesmay be present. The clerk shall provide 1 34 copies of the order as required by section 236.5. 1 35 2 1 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 713, Seventy-eighth General Assembly. 2 13 2 14 2 15 2 16 ELIZABETH ISAACSON 2 17 Chief Clerk of the House 2 18 Approved , 1999 2 19 2 20 2 21 2 22 THOMAS J. VILSACK 2 23 Governor
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