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Senate File 250

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Bill Introduced: S.J. 413
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Bill Text

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 804.7A, subsection 2, 1999, is amended
  1  2 to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  A federal law enforcement officer has the same
  1  4 authority, as provided in section 804.7, subsection 3, and has
  1  5 the same immunity from suit in this state as a peace officer,
  1  6 as defined in section 801.4, subsection 11, when making an
  1  7 arrest in this state for a nonfederal crime if either of the
  1  8 following exists:
  1  9    a.  The federal law enforcement officer has reasonable
  1 10 grounds for believing that an indictable public offense has
  1 11 been committed and has reasonable grounds for believing that
  1 12 the person to be arrested has committed it.
  1 13    b.  The federal law enforcement officer is rendering
  1 14 assistance to a peace officer of this state in an emergency or
  1 15 at the request of the peace officer.  
  1 16                           EXPLANATION
  1 17    This bill expands the authority of federal officers to make
  1 18 an arrest for a nonfederal crime.  The bill also expands the
  1 19 immunity for acts to include acts within the expanded
  1 20 authority.  Under current law, federal law enforcement
  1 21 officers may only make an arrest for an indictable public
  1 22 offense, where the officer has reasonable grounds for
  1 23 believing that the offense was committed and that the arrested
  1 24 person committed the offense, and in certain situations where
  1 25 the officer is rendering assistance to a state peace officer.
  1 26 The bill eliminates the requirement that the offense be an
  1 27 indictable offense and eliminates the requirements that are
  1 28 placed on the rendering of assistance to state peace officers.
  1 29 Nonindictable offenses which would be included in the expanded
  1 30 federal law enforcement authority would include simple
  1 31 misdemeanors and offenses which are scheduled violations under
  1 32 Code section 805.8.  
  1 33 LSB 2843SS 78
  1 34 jm/cf/24

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