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1 1 Section 1. JUDICIAL BRANCH. There is appropriated from
1 2 the general fund of the state to the judicial branch for the
1 3 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001,
1 4 the following amounts, or so much thereof as is necessary, to
1 5 be used for the purposes designated:
1 6 1. For salaries of supreme court justices, appellate court
1 7 judges, district court judges, district associate judges,
1 8 judicial magistrates and staff, state court administrator,
1 9 clerk of the supreme court, district court administrators,
1 10 clerks of the district court, juvenile court officers, board
1 11 of law examiners and board of examiners of shorthand reporters
1 12 and judicial qualifications commission, receipt and
1 13 disbursement of child support payments, reimbursement of the
1 14 auditor of state for expenses incurred in completing audits of
1 15 the offices of the clerks of the district court during the
1 16 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and maintenance,
1 17 equipment, and miscellaneous purposes:
1 18 .................................................. $109,008,259
1 19 a. The judicial branch, except for purposes of internal
1 20 processing, shall use the current state budget system, the
1 21 state payroll system, and the Iowa finance and accounting
1 22 system in administration of programs and payments for
1 23 services, and shall not duplicate the state payroll,
1 24 accounting, and budgeting systems.
1 25 b. The judicial branch shall submit monthly financial
1 26 statements to the legislative fiscal bureau and the department
1 27 of management containing all appropriated accounts in the same
1 28 manner as provided in the monthly financial status reports and
1 29 personal services usage reports of the department of revenue
1 30 and finance. The monthly financial statements shall include a
1 31 comparison of the dollars and percentage spent of budgeted
1 32 versus actual revenues and expenditures on a cumulative basis
1 33 for full-time equivalent positions and dollars.
1 34 c. The judicial branch shall continue to assist in the
1 35 development and implementation of a justice data warehouse
2 1 which shall include in the Iowa court information system,
2 2 starting with appointments of counsel made on or after July 1,
2 3 1999, the means to identify any case where the court has
2 4 determined indigence, and whether the case is handled by a
2 5 public defender or other court-appointed counsel.
2 6 d. Of the funds appropriated in this subsection, not more
2 7 than $1,897,728 may be transferred into the revolving fund
2 8 established pursuant to section 602.1302, subsection 3, to be
2 9 used for the payment of jury and witness fees and mileage.
2 10 e. The judicial branch shall focus efforts upon the
2 11 collection of delinquent fines, penalties, court costs, fees,
2 12 surcharges, or similar amounts.
2 13 f. It is the intent of the general assembly that the
2 14 offices of the clerks of the district court operate in all
2 15 ninety-nine counties and be accessible to the public as much
2 16 as is reasonably possible in order to address the relative
2 17 needs of the citizens of each county.
2 18 g. In addition to the requirements for transfers under
2 19 section 8.39, the judicial branch shall not change the
2 20 appropriations from the amounts appropriated to the branch in
2 21 this Act, unless notice of the revisions is given prior to
2 22 their effective date to the legislative fiscal bureau. The
2 23 notice shall include information on the branch's rationale for
2 24 making the changes and details concerning the work load and
2 25 performance measures upon which the changes are based.
2 26 h. The judicial branch shall provide to the cochairpersons
2 27 and ranking members of the joint appropriations subcommittee
2 28 on the justice system and to the legislative fiscal bureau by
2 29 January 15, 2001, an annual report concerning the operation
2 30 and use of the Iowa court information system and any
2 31 recommendations to improve the utilization of the system. The
2 32 annual report shall include information specifying the amounts
2 33 of fines, surcharges, and court costs collected using the
2 34 system and how the system is used to improve the collection
2 35 process. The report shall also include information concerning
3 1 efforts made by the judicial branch to facilitate the sharing
3 2 of vital sentencing and other information with other state
3 3 departments and governmental agencies involved in the criminal
3 4 justice system through the Iowa court information system. In
3 5 addition, the judicial branch shall submit a semiannual update
3 6 to the co-chairpersons and ranking members specifying the
3 7 amounts of fines, surcharges, and court costs collected using
3 8 the Iowa court information system since the last report.
3 9 i. The judicial branch shall provide a report to the
3 10 general assembly by January 1, 2001, concerning the amounts
3 11 received and expended from the enhanced court collections fund
3 12 created in section 602.1304 and the court technology and
3 13 modernization fund created in section 602.8108, subsection 4,
3 14 during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June
3 15 30, 2000, and the plans for expenditures from each fund during
3 16 the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30,
3 17 2001.
3 18 j. The judicial branch shall continue to provide criminal
3 19 justice data to the department of corrections for use by the
3 20 Iowa corrections offender network (ICON) data system.
3 21 2. For the juvenile victim restitution program:
3 22 .................................................. $ 210,291
3 23 Sec. 2. JUDICIAL RETIREMENT FUND. There is appropriated
3 24 from the general fund of the state to the judicial retirement
3 25 fund for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending
3 26 June 30, 2001, the following amount, or so much thereof as is
3 27 necessary, to be used for the purpose designated:
3 28 For the state's contribution to the judicial retirement
3 29 fund established in section 602.9104, in the amount of 23.7
3 30 percent of the basic salaries of the judges covered under
3 31 chapter 602, article 9:
3 32 .................................................. $ 4,499,350
3 33 Sec. 3. INDIGENT DEFENSE COSTS. The supreme court shall
3 34 submit a written report for the preceding fiscal year no later
3 35 than January 1, 2001, indicating the amounts collected for
4 1 recovery of indigent defense costs. The report shall include
4 2 the total amount collected by all courts, as well as the
4 3 amounts collected by each judicial district. The supreme
4 4 court shall also submit a written report quarterly indicating
4 5 the number of criminal and juvenile filings which occur in
4 6 each judicial district for purposes of estimating indigent
4 7 defense costs. A copy of each report shall be provided to the
4 8 public defender, the department of management, and the
4 9 legislative fiscal bureau. The judicial branch shall continue
4 10 to assist in the development of an automated data system for
4 11 use in the sharing of information utilizing the justice data
4 12 warehouse for legislative and executive branch uses.
4 13 Sec. 4. ENHANCED COURT COLLECTIONS FUND – DISTRIBUTION.
4 14 Of the moneys collected and deposited in the enhanced court
4 15 collections fund created in section 602.1304 during the fiscal
4 16 year beginning July 1, 2000, $668,390 are appropriated to and
4 17 shall be expended by the judicial branch for the continued
4 18 implementation of the justice data warehouse. Of the moneys
4 19 appropriated in this section, $60,000 shall be transferred to
4 20 the division of criminal and juvenile justice planning of the
4 21 department of human rights for 1.00 FTE position to support
4 22 the justice data warehouse, and $608,390 shall be transferred
4 23 to the division of information technology services of the
4 24 department of general services for lease-purchase costs, and
4 25 other related expenses, concerning the justice data warehouse.
4 26 However, the moneys appropriated and transferred pursuant
4 27 to this section shall be reduced to the extent moneys are
4 28 appropriated for the purposes provided in this section to the
4 29 division of information technology services of the department
4 30 of general services or the division of criminal and juvenile
4 31 justice planning of the department of human rights from moneys
4 32 made available pursuant to section 8.62.
4 33 HF 2554
4 34 ec/jg/25
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