House Journal: Page 1380: Friday, April 25, 2003
17 occurs to have a greater percentage of need between
18 authorized judgeships and judgeships specified under
19 the formula as calculated by the state court
20 administrator, than would the judicial election
21 district which would receive the apportioned
22 judgeship."
23 2. By striking page 17, line 32, through page 18,
24 line 27, and inserting the following:
25 "NEW SUBSECTION. 12. Notwithstanding any other
26 provision of the Code to the contrary, if the chief
27 justice of the supreme court determines an inequity
28 exists in the allocation of judgeships and judicial
29 workload between judicial election districts, the
30 chief justice may authorize a voluntary permanent
31 transfer of a district judge from one judicial
32 election district to another. The chief justice shall
33 notify all eligible district judges of the intent to
34 authorize a voluntary permanent transfer and the terms
35 of such a transfer. The chief justice may transfer a
36 district judge who consents to the transfer within six
37 months of the notification. The transfer of a
38 district judge shall take effect within sixty days of
39 the official announcement of the transfer by the chief
40 justice. A district judge transferred pursuant to
41 this subsection shall have six months from the date of
42 the announcement of the transfer to establish
43 residency in the judicial election district where the
44 district judge is transferred. A district judge who
45 has been transferred shall stand for retention in the
46 judicial election district to which the district judge
47 has been transferred as provided in chapter 46. For
48 purposes of subsection 3, the judgeship shall be
49 apportioned to the judicial election district where
50 the judge is transferred. A voluntary transfer
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1 pursuant to this subsection shall not cause a vacancy
2 of a judgeship in the judicial election district from
3 which the district judge was transferred. A transfer
4 under this section shall not occur if the results of
5 the transfer would cause the judicial election
6 district from which the district judge would be
7 transferred to have a greater percentage of need
8 between authorized judgeships and judgeships specified
9 under the formula as calculated by the state court
10 administrator, than would the judicial election
11 district to which the district judge would be
12 transferred."
13 3. By renumbering as necessary.
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