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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 694 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 17, by striking lines 21 through 31 and 1 3 inserting the following: 1 4 "NEW SUBSECTION. 11. If a vacancy in a judgeship 1 5 occurs, the judgeship shall be apportioned to the 1 6 judicial election district having the greatest 1 7 percentage of need between authorized judgeships and 1 8 judgeships specified by the formula in subsection 3, 1 9 as calculated by the state court administrator. If 1 10 two or more judicial election districts have an equal 1 11 percentage of need between authorized judgeships and 1 12 judgeships specified by the formula, the judgeship 1 13 shall be apportioned by the state court administrator. 1 14 However, an apportionment under this section shall not 1 15 occur if the results of the apportionment would cause 1 16 the judicial election district in which the vacancy 1 17 occurs to have a greater percentage of need between 1 18 authorized judgeships and judgeships specified under 1 19 the formula as calculated by the state court 1 20 administrator, than would the judicial election 1 21 district which would receive the apportioned 1 22 judgeship." 1 23 #2. By striking page 17, line 32, through page 18, 1 24 line 27, and inserting the following: 1 25 "NEW SUBSECTION. 12. Notwithstanding any other 1 26 provision of the Code to the contrary, if the chief 1 27 justice of the supreme court determines an inequity 1 28 exists in the allocation of judgeships and judicial 1 29 workload between judicial election districts, the 1 30 chief justice may authorize a voluntary permanent 1 31 transfer of a district judge from one judicial 1 32 election district to another. The chief justice shall 1 33 notify all eligible district judges of the intent to 1 34 authorize a voluntary permanent transfer and the terms 1 35 of such a transfer. The chief justice may transfer a 1 36 district judge who consents to the transfer within six 1 37 months of the notification. The transfer of a 1 38 district judge shall take effect within sixty days of 1 39 the official announcement of the transfer by the chief 1 40 justice. A district judge transferred pursuant to 1 41 this subsection shall have six months from the date of 1 42 the announcement of the transfer to establish 1 43 residency in the judicial election district where the 1 44 district judge is transferred. A district judge who 1 45 has been transferred shall stand for retention in the 1 46 judicial election district to which the district judge 1 47 has been transferred as provided in chapter 46. For 1 48 purposes of subsection 3, the judgeship shall be 1 49 apportioned to the judicial election district where 1 50 the judge is transferred. A voluntary transfer 2 1 pursuant to this subsection shall not cause a vacancy 2 2 of a judgeship in the judicial election district from 2 3 which the district judge was transferred. A transfer 2 4 under this section shall not occur if the results of 2 5 the transfer would cause the judicial election 2 6 district from which the district judge would be 2 7 transferred to have a greater percentage of need 2 8 between authorized judgeships and judgeships specified 2 9 under the formula as calculated by the state court 2 10 administrator, than would the judicial election 2 11 district to which the district judge would be 2 12 transferred." 2 13 #3. By renumbering as necessary. 2 14 2 15 2 16 2 17 SWAIM of Davis 2 18 2 19 2 20 2 21 KUHN of Floyd 2 22 2 23 2 24 2 25 MERTZ of Kossuth 2 26 2 27 2 28 2 29 WHITAKER of Van Buren 2 30 2 31 2 32 2 33 GASKILL of Wapello 2 34 2 35 2 36 2 37 REASONER of Union 2 38 HF 694.301 80 2 39 jm/cf
Text: H01475 Text: H01477 Text: H01400 - H01499 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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