Text: HF00626 Text: HF00628 Text: HF00600 - HF00699 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 68B.31A FACTUALLY INACCURATE 1 2 STATEMENTS. 1 3 1. A legislator shall not knowingly make an inaccurate 1 4 statement on the floor of either house. 1 5 2. A legislator may challenge any statement made by 1 6 another legislator regarding the actions, votes, or statements 1 7 of the other legislator as factually inaccurate. The 1 8 legislator shall make the challenge by filing a complaint with 1 9 the ethics committee in the house in which the legislator 1 10 alleged to have made the factually inaccurate statement is a 1 11 member. Upon receiving notification of the complaint as 1 12 provided in section 68B.31, the legislator alleged to have 1 13 made the factually inaccurate statement shall file an answer 1 14 to the complaint with the ethics committee within seven days 1 15 following the receipt of notification of the complaint. If a 1 16 retraction of the statement is included in the answer, the 1 17 ethics committee shall dismiss the complaint and publish 1 18 notice of the retraction in the journal. Upon receiving an 1 19 answer to the complaint that does not include a retraction of 1 20 the statement, the ethics committee shall proceed on the 1 21 complaint as provided in section 68B.31. 1 22 EXPLANATION 1 23 This bill relates to the proceedings of legislative ethics 1 24 committees for factually inaccurate statements made by 1 25 legislators regarding the actions, votes, or statements of the 1 26 other legislator. 1 27 The bill prohibits a legislator from making a factually 1 28 inaccurate statement regarding the actions, votes, or 1 29 statements of the other legislator. The bill provides that a 1 30 legislator may challenge any statement made by another 1 31 legislator as factually inaccurate. The bill provides that 1 32 the legislator making the challenge shall file a complaint 1 33 with the ethics committee in the house in which the legislator 1 34 alleged to have made the factually inaccurate statement is a 1 35 member. The bill provides that, upon receiving notification 2 1 of the complaint, the legislator alleged to have made the 2 2 factually inaccurate statement shall file an answer to the 2 3 complaint with the ethics committee within seven days 2 4 following the receipt of notification of the complaint. The 2 5 bill provides that, if a retraction of the statement is 2 6 included in the answer, the ethics committee shall dismiss the 2 7 complaint and publish notice of the retraction in the journal. 2 8 The bill provides that, upon receiving an answer to the 2 9 complaint that does not include a retraction of the statement, 2 10 the ethics committee shall proceed on the complaint as 2 11 provided in Code section 68B.31. 2 12 LSB 3034YH 79 2 13 tm/pj/5
Text: HF00626 Text: HF00628 Text: HF00600 - HF00699 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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