Text: SF02005 Text: SF02007 Text: SF02000 - SF02099 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 46.14, subsection 1, Code Supplement 1 2 2003, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. Each judicial nominating commission shall carefully 1 4 consider the individuals available for judge, and within sixty 1 5 days after receiving notice of a vacancy shall certify to the 1 6 governor and the chief justice the proper number of nominees, 1 7 in alphabetical order. Such nominees shall be chosen by the 1 8 affirmative vote of a majority of the full statutory number of 1 9 commissioners upon the basis of their qualifications and 1 10 without regard to political affiliation. Nominees shall be 1 11 members of the bar of Iowa, shall be residents of the stateor1 12district of the court to which they are nominated, and shall 1 13 be of such age that they will be able to serve an initial and 1 14 one regular term of office to which they are nominated before 1 15 reaching the age of seventy-two years. Nominees for district 1 16 judge shall file a certified application form, to be provided 1 17 by the supreme court, with the chairperson of the district 1 18 judicial nominating commission. Absence of a commissioner or 1 19 vacancy upon the commission shall not invalidate a nomination. 1 20 The chairperson of the commission shall promptly certify the 1 21 names of the nominees, in alphabetical order, to the governor 1 22 and the chief justice. 1 23 Sec. 2. Section 602.6201, subsection 2, Code Supplement 1 24 2003, is amended to read as follows: 1 25 2. A district judge must be a resident of the judicial 1 26 election districtin which appointedwithin thirty days of 1 27 appointment and be a resident of the judicial election 1 28 district when retained. Subject to the provision for 1 29 reassignment of judges under section 602.6108, a district 1 30 judge shall serve in the district of the judge's residence 1 31 while in office, regardless of the number of judgeships to 1 32 which the district is entitled under subsection 3. 1 33 EXPLANATION 1 34 This bill relates to the residency of a district judge upon 1 35 appointment. The bill provides that a district judge must be 2 1 a resident of the judicial election district within 30 days of 2 2 appointment by the governor. Current law provides that a 2 3 district judge be a resident of the judicial election district 2 4 when nominated and appointed a district judge. 2 5 LSB 5128SS 80 2 6 jm/pj/5
Text: SF02005 Text: SF02007 Text: SF02000 - SF02099 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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