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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of 1 2 the State of Iowa is proposed: 1 3 Section 11, unnumbered paragraph 1, of Article I of the 1 4 Constitution of the State of Iowa, as amended by amendment 1 5 number 2 of the Amendments of 1998, is amended to read as 1 6 follows: 1 7 All offenses less than felony and in which the maximum 1 8 permissible imprisonment does not exceed thirty days shall be 1 9 tried summarily before an officer authorized by law, on 1 10 information underoathpenalty of perjury, without indictment, 1 11 or the intervention of a grand jury, saving to the defendant 1 12 the right of appeal; and no person shall be held to answer for 1 13 any higher criminal offense, unless on presentment or 1 14 indictment by a grand jury, except in cases arising in the 1 15 army, or navy, or in the militia, when in actual service, in 1 16 time of war or public danger. 1 17 Sec. 2. The foregoing amendment to the Constitution of the 1 18 State of Iowa is referred to the General Assembly to be chosen 1 19 at the next general election for members of the General 1 20 Assembly and the Secretary of State is directed to cause the 1 21 same to be published for three consecutive months previous to 1 22 the date of that election as provided by law. 1 23 EXPLANATION 1 24 This joint resolution proposes an amendment to the 1 25 Constitution of the State of Iowa regarding the current 1 26 requirement that an indictment by trial information in a 1 27 misdemeanor case, in which the maximum permissible 1 28 imprisonment does not exceed 30 days, be acknowledged under 1 29 oath. The resolution, in response to a recent Iowa supreme 1 30 court decision, provides that a trial information in a certain 1 31 misdemeanor case can be unsworn but must be acknowledged under 1 32 penalty of perjury. 1 33 The resolution, if adopted, would be referred to the next 1 34 general assembly for adoption before being submitted to the 1 35 electorate for ratification. 2 1 LSB 1043HH 79 2 2 jm/cls/14
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