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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.
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2 17 SWAIM of Davis
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2 21 KUHN of Floyd
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2 25 MERTZ of Kossuth
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2 29 WHITAKER of Van Buren
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2 33 GASKILL of Wapello
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2 37 REASONER of Union
2 38 HF 694.301 80
2 39 jm/cf
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