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House Amendment 8604

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend House File 2578 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 24, by inserting after line 28 the
  1  3 following:
  1  4    "Sec.    .  Section 602.8108, subsection 3,
  1  5 paragraph b, Code Supplement 2003, is amended to read
  1  6 as follows:
  1  7    b.  Of the amount received from the clerk, the
  1  8 state court administrator shall allocate eighteen six
  1  9 percent to be deposited in the criminalistics
  1 10 laboratory fund established in subsection 7, seventeen
  1 11 percent to be deposited in the victim compensation
  1 12 fund established in section 915.94, and eighty-two
  1 13 seventy-seven percent to be deposited in the general
  1 14 fund.
  1 15    Sec.    .  Section 602.8108, Code Supplement 2003,
  1 16 is amended by adding the following new subsection:
  1 17    NEW SUBSECTION.  7.  A criminalistics laboratory
  1 18 fund is created in the state treasury under the
  1 19 control of the department of public safety.  The fund
  1 20 shall consist of appropriations made to the fund and
  1 21 transfers of interest, earnings, and moneys required
  1 22 to be collected for deposit in the fund, including
  1 23 moneys received from the criminal penalty surcharge
  1 24 pursuant to subsection 3, paragraph "b".  All moneys
  1 25 in the fund are appropriated to the department of
  1 26 public safety for use by the department in
  1 27 criminalistics laboratory equipment purchasing,
  1 28 maintenance, depreciation, and training.  Any balance
  1 29 in the fund on June 30 of any fiscal year shall not
  1 30 revert to any other fund of the state but shall remain
  1 31 available for the purposes described in this
  1 32 subsection.
  1 33    Sec.    .  Section 911.2, unnumbered paragraph 1,
  1 34 Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1 35    When a court imposes a fine or forfeiture for a
  1 36 violation of a state law, or of a city or county
  1 37 ordinance except an ordinance regulating the parking
  1 38 of motor vehicles, the court shall assess an
  1 39 additional penalty in the form of a surcharge equal to
  1 40 thirty thirty-two percent of the fine or forfeiture
  1 41 imposed.  An additional drug abuse resistance
  1 42 education surcharge of ten dollars shall be assessed
  1 43 by the clerk of the district court if the violation
  1 44 arose out of a violation of an offense provided for in
  1 45 chapter 321J or chapter 124, division IV.  In the
  1 46 event of multiple offenses, the surcharge shall be
  1 47 based upon the total amount of fines or forfeitures
  1 48 imposed for all offenses.  When a fine or forfeiture
  1 49 is suspended in whole or in part, the surcharge shall
  1 50 be reduced in proportion to the amount suspended."
  2  1    #2.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  2  2 
  2  3 
  2  4                               
  2  5 HOGG of Linn
  2  6 HF 2578.309 80
  2  7 jp/cf
     

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