House Journal: Page 1379: Friday, April 25, 2003
Swaim of Davis offered the following amendment H-1479 filed by
Swaim, Kuhn of Floyd, Whitaker of Van Buren and Mertz of Kossuth
from the floor and moved its adoption:
H-1479
1 Amend House File 694 as follows:
2 1. By striking page 12, line 26, through page 13,
3 line 9.
4 2. By renumbering as necessary.
Amendment H-1479 lost.
Kuhn of Floyd offered the following amendment H-1478 filed by
him and Mertz of Kossuth from the floor and moved its adoption:
H-1478
1 Amend House File 694 as follows:
2 1. Page 15, by striking lines 6 through 16 and
3 inserting the following: "court to the general
4 assembly."
Amendment H-1478 lost.
Swaim of Davis offered the following amendment H-1476 filed by
Swaim, Kuhn of Floyd, Mertz of Kossuth, Whitaker of Van Buren,
Gaskill of Wapello and Reasoner of Union from the floor and moved
its adoption:
H-1476
1 Amend House File 694 as follows:
2 1. Page 17, by striking lines 21 through 31 and
3 inserting the following:
4 "NEW SUBSECTION. 11. If a vacancy in a judgeship
5 occurs, the judgeship shall be apportioned to the
6 judicial election district having the greatest
7 percentage of need between authorized judgeships and
8 judgeships specified by the formula in subsection 3,
9 as calculated by the state court administrator. If
10 two or more judicial election districts have an equal
11 percentage of need between authorized judgeships and
12 judgeships specified by the formula, the judgeship
13 shall be apportioned by the state court administrator.
14 However, an apportionment under this section shall not
15 occur if the results of the apportionment would cause
16 the judicial election district in which the vacancy

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