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1 1 SENATE FILE 527
1 2
1 3 AN ACT
1 4 RELATING TO AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE JUDICIAL BRANCH.
1 5
1 6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 7
1 8 Section 1. JUDICIAL BRANCH. There is appropriated from
1 9 the general fund of the state to the judicial branch for the
1 10 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2001, and ending June 30, 2002,
1 11 the following amounts, or so much thereof as is necessary, to
1 12 be used for the purposes designated:
1 13 For salaries of supreme court justices, appellate court
1 14 judges, district court judges, district associate judges,
1 15 judicial magistrates and staff, state court administrator,
1 16 clerk of the supreme court, district court administrators,
1 17 clerks of the district court, juvenile court officers, board
1 18 of law examiners and board of examiners of shorthand reporters
1 19 and judicial qualifications commission, receipt and
1 20 disbursement of child support payments, reimbursement of the
1 21 auditor of state for expenses incurred in completing audits of
1 22 the offices of the clerks of the district court during the
1 23 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2001, and maintenance,
1 24 equipment, and miscellaneous purposes:
1 25 .................................................. $113,792,166
1 26 1. The judicial branch, except for purposes of internal
1 27 processing, shall use the current state budget system, the
1 28 state payroll system, and the Iowa finance and accounting
1 29 system in administration of programs and payments for
1 30 services, and shall not duplicate the state payroll,
1 31 accounting, and budgeting systems.
1 32 2. The judicial branch shall submit monthly financial
1 33 statements to the legislative fiscal bureau and the department
1 34 of management containing all appropriated accounts in the same
1 35 manner as provided in the monthly financial status reports and
2 1 personal services usage reports of the department of revenue
2 2 and finance. The monthly financial statements shall include a
2 3 comparison of the dollars and percentage spent of budgeted
2 4 versus actual revenues and expenditures on a cumulative basis
2 5 for full-time equivalent positions and dollars.
2 6 3. The judicial branch shall continue to assist in the
2 7 development and implementation of a justice data warehouse
2 8 which shall include in the Iowa court information system,
2 9 starting with appointments of counsel made on or after July 1,
2 10 1999, the means to identify any case where the court has
2 11 determined indigence, and whether the case is handled by a
2 12 public defender or other court-appointed counsel.
2 13 4. Of the funds appropriated in this section, not more
2 14 than $1,897,728 may be transferred into the revolving fund
2 15 established pursuant to section 602.1302, subsection 3, to be
2 16 used for the payment of jury and witness fees and mileage.
2 17 5. The judicial branch shall focus efforts upon the
2 18 collection of delinquent fines, penalties, court costs, fees,
2 19 surcharges, or similar amounts.
2 20 6. It is the intent of the general assembly that the
2 21 offices of the clerks of the district court operate in all
2 22 ninety-nine counties and be accessible to the public as much
2 23 as is reasonably possible in order to address the relative
2 24 needs of the citizens of each county.
2 25 7. In addition to the requirements for transfers under
2 26 section 8.39, the judicial branch shall not change the
2 27 appropriations from the amounts appropriated to the branch in
2 28 this Act, unless notice of the revisions is given prior to
2 29 their effective date to the legislative fiscal bureau. The
2 30 notice shall include information on the branch's rationale for
2 31 making the changes and details concerning the work load and
2 32 performance measures upon which the changes are based.
2 33 8. The judicial branch shall provide to the co-
2 34 chairpersons and ranking members of the joint appropriations
2 35 subcommittee on the justice system and to the legislative
3 1 fiscal bureau by January 15, 2002, an annual report concerning
3 2 the operation and use of the Iowa court information system and
3 3 any recommendations to improve the utilization of the system.
3 4 The annual report shall include information specifying the
3 5 amounts of fines, surcharges, and court costs collected using
3 6 the system and how the system is used to improve the
3 7 collection process. In addition, the judicial branch shall
3 8 submit a semiannual update to the cochairpersons, ranking
3 9 members, and the legislative fiscal bureau specifying the
3 10 amounts of fines, surcharges, and court costs collected using
3 11 the Iowa court information system since the last report. The
3 12 judicial branch shall continue to facilitate the sharing of
3 13 vital sentencing and other information with other state
3 14 departments and governmental agencies involved in the criminal
3 15 justice system through the Iowa court information system.
3 16 9. The judicial branch shall provide a report to the
3 17 general assembly by January 1, 2002, concerning the amounts
3 18 received and expended from the enhanced court collections fund
3 19 created in section 602.1304 and the court technology and
3 20 modernization fund created in section 602.8108, subsection 4,
3 21 during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June
3 22 30, 2001, and the plans for expenditures from each fund during
3 23 the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2001, and ending June 30,
3 24 2002.
3 25 10. The judicial branch shall continue to provide criminal
3 26 justice data to the department of corrections for use by the
3 27 Iowa corrections offender network (ICON) data system.
3 28 Sec. 2. JUDICIAL RETIREMENT FUND. There is appropriated
3 29 from the general fund of the state to the judicial retirement
3 30 fund for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2001, and ending
3 31 June 30, 2002, the following amount, or so much thereof as is
3 32 necessary, to be used for the purpose designated:
3 33 Notwithstanding section 602.9104, for the state's
3 34 contribution to the judicial retirement fund in the amount of
3 35 16.6 percent of the basic salaries of the judges covered under
4 1 chapter 602, article 9:
4 2 .................................................. $ 3,207,834
4 3 Sec. 3. INDIGENT DEFENSE COSTS. The supreme court shall
4 4 submit a written report for the preceding fiscal year no later
4 5 than January 1, 2002, indicating the amounts collected for
4 6 recovery of indigent defense costs. The report shall include
4 7 the total amount collected by all courts, as well as the
4 8 amounts collected by each judicial district. The supreme
4 9 court shall also submit a written report quarterly indicating
4 10 the number of criminal and juvenile filings which occur in
4 11 each judicial district for purposes of estimating indigent
4 12 defense costs. A copy of each report shall be provided to the
4 13 public defender, the department of management, and the
4 14 legislative fiscal bureau. The judicial branch shall continue
4 15 to assist in the development of an automated data system for
4 16 use in the sharing of information utilizing the justice data
4 17 warehouse for legislative and executive branch uses.
4 18 Sec. 4. ENHANCED COURT COLLECTIONS FUND – DISTRIBUTION.
4 19 Of the moneys collected and deposited in the enhanced court
4 20 collections fund created in section 602.1304 during the fiscal
4 21 year beginning July 1, 2001, $624,000 is appropriated to and
4 22 shall be expended by the judicial branch for the continued
4 23 implementation of the justice data warehouse. Of the moneys
4 24 appropriated in this section, $60,000 shall be transferred to
4 25 the division of criminal and juvenile justice planning of the
4 26 department of human rights for 1.00 FTE to support the justice
4 27 data warehouse, and $564,000 shall be transferred to the
4 28 information technology department for lease-purchase costs,
4 29 and other related expenses, concerning the justice data
4 30 warehouse.
4 31 However, the moneys appropriated and transferred pursuant
4 32 to this section shall be reduced to the extent moneys are
4 33 appropriated for the purposes provided in this section to the
4 34 information technology department or the division of criminal
4 35 and juvenile justice planning of the department of human
5 1 rights from moneys made available pursuant to section 8.62.
5 2 Sec. 5. ENHANCED COURT COLLECTIONS FUND – JUDICIAL
5 3 HOSPITALIZATION REFEREES. Notwithstanding the requirements of
5 4 section 602.1304 up to $317,450 of the moneys collected and
5 5 deposited in the enhanced court collections fund created in
5 6 section 602.1304 during the fiscal year beginning July 1,
5 7 2001, may be used by the court for compensation of judicial
5 8 hospitalization referees.
5 9
5 10
5 11
5 12 MARY E. KRAMER
5 13 President of the Senate
5 14
5 15
5 16
5 17 BRENT SIEGRIST
5 18 Speaker of the House
5 19
5 20 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
5 21 is known as Senate File 527, Seventy-ninth General Assembly.
5 22
5 23
5 24
5 25 MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
5 26 Secretary of the Senate
5 27 Approved , 2001
5 28
5 29
5 30
5 31 THOMAS J. VILSACK
5 32 Governor
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