Text: SF00325 Text: SF00327 Text: SF00300 - SF00399 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 815.7, Code 1999, is amended to read as 1 2 follows: 1 3 815.7 FEES TO ATTORNEYS. 1 4 An attorney who has not entered into a contract authorized 1 5 under section 13B.4 and who is appointed by the court to 1 6 represent any person charged with a crime in this state or to 1 7 serve as counsel or guardian ad litem to a person in juvenile 1 8 court in this state shall be entitled to a reasonable 1 9 compensation which shall be the ordinary and customary charges 1 10 for like services in the community to be decided in each case 1 11 by a judge of the district court or of the juvenile court, as 1 12 applicable, including such sum or sums as the court may 1 13 determine are necessary for investigation in the interests of 1 14 justice and in the event of appeal the cost of obtaining the 1 15 transcript of the trial and the printing of the trial record 1 16 and necessary briefs in behalf of the defendant.However, the1 17 The reasonable compensation awarded an attorney shallnotbe 1 18 calculated based uponan hourly rate that exceeds the rate a1 19contract attorney as provided in section 13B.4 would receive1 20in a similar casethe following hourly rates: fifty-five 1 21 dollars per hour for out-of-court time and sixty-five dollars 1 22 per hour for in-court time. However, if the charge is either 1 23 a class "A" or class "B" felony, the hourly rate for in-court 1 24 time shall be seventy-five dollars per hour. The supreme 1 25 court shall coordinate these rates of compensation with the 1 26 court's guidelines regarding the range of hourly compensation 1 27 rates and the compensation limits placed on each misdemeanor 1 28 or felony case with the maximum hourly rates of compensation 1 29 established in this seciton. Such attorney need not follow 1 30 the case into another county or into the appellate court 1 31 unless so directed by the court at the request of the 1 32 defendant, where grounds for further litigation are not 1 33 capricious or unreasonable, but if such attorney does so, the 1 34 attorney's fee shall be determined accordingly. Only one 1 35 attorney fee shall be so awarded in any one case except that 2 1 in class "A" felony cases, two may be authorized. 2 2 EXPLANATION 2 3 This bill changes the rate of compensation for private, 2 4 noncontract, court-appointed attorneys and requires the new 2 5 rates of compensation to be coordinated with the supreme 2 6 court's compensation guidelines. In addition to changing the 2 7 compensation rate, the bill differentiates the compensation 2 8 rates for in-court attorney time and out-of-court attorney 2 9 time. The bill sets the compensation rates at $55 per hour 2 10 for out-of-court time, $65 per hour for in-court time, and $75 2 11 per hour for in-court time on class "A" and class "B" 2 12 felonies. 2 13 LSB 1165XS 78 2 14 jm/sc/14
Text: SF00325 Text: SF00327 Text: SF00300 - SF00399 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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