Bills in Committee

Judiciary (H)

Bills under consideration and review by committee.

Bill Bill Title
SF 2377 A bill for an act authorizing an administrator in charge of any facility for the detention or custody of juveniles to lock the facility. (Formerly SF 2132.)
SF 2375 A bill for an act modifying the periods of time to bring criminal actions for sexual offenses against a minor, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 2199.)
SF 2374 A bill for an act relating to the awarding of joint custody and joint physical care. (Formerly SSB 3154.)
SF 2373 A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of child endangerment by prohibiting a sex offender access to a child or certain minors, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 3102.)
SF 2371 A bill for an act relating to criminal penalties for individuals engaged in human trafficking of victims who are under the age of eighteen. (Formerly SF 2254.)
SF 2357 A bill for an act relating to jurisdictional changes to small claims court cases. (Formerly SF 42.)
SF 2343 A bill for an act allowing law enforcement agencies to retain possession of motor vehicles suspected to have been used to elude law enforcement vehicles. (Formerly SF 284.)
SF 2282 A bill for an act providing for the constitutionality of statutes and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 2153.)
SF 2247 A bill for an act relating to grandparent and great-grandparent visitation. (Formerly SF 281.)
SF 2197 A bill for an act relating to theft of motor vehicles subsequently used in the commission of a felony, and providing penalties.
SF 2176 A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of lascivious conduct with a minor, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 3041.)
SF 2101 A bill for an act relating to purple marks or caps on top of trees or posts to indicate that unlawful entry constitutes criminal trespass and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 2002.)
SF 468 A bill for an act relating to the definition of stalking and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 209.)
SF 433 A bill for an act relating to termination of parental rights and adoption proceedings, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1093.) Effective 7-1-17.
SF 358 A bill for an act relating to search warrants, by allowing an application for and the issuance of a search warrant by electronic means, and allowing for the written inventory of any property seized to be filed with the clerk of the district court, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1091.) Contingent effective date; see section 9 of bill.
HF 2472 A bill for an act requesting the establishment of an interim study committee by the legislative council relating to the administration of the criminal justice system and utilizing a justice reinvestment process.
HF 2465 A bill for an act creating a law enforcement body camera interim workgroup. (Formerly HSB 601.)
HF 2457 A bill for an act relating to statutory corrections which may adjust language to reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, delete temporary language, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, update ongoing provisions, or remove ambiguities, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 662.) Effective 7-1-18.
HF 2452 A bill for an act relating to the expungement of simple misdemeanor offenses. (Formerly HF 2066.)
HF 2429 A bill for an act relating to the establishment of an interim study committee to review the restoration of rights for certain persons convicted of a felony. (Formerly HF 2266.)
HF 2426 A bill for an act relating to review of the amount withheld to pay a child support delinquency involving a hardship claim, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2040.)
HF 2413 A bill for an act relating to child abuse involving the commission of a sexual offense with or to a child by a person who is eighteen years of age or older. (Formerly HSB 626.)
HF 2400 A bill for an act relating to reporting accidents resulting in injury or death, and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 428.)
HF 2396 A bill for an act relating to the misrepresentation of a person as an owner or trainer of a service dog or assistive animal and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 2295.)
HF 2387 A bill for an act relating to restitution for claims arising from members of the general assembly committing unlawful and unfair or discriminatory employment practices.
HF 2384 A bill for an act relating to unenforceable provisions in rental agreements. (Formerly HSB 633.)
HF 2366 A bill for an act relating to out-of-state drug rehabilitation programs for certain bailable defendants and parolees. (Formerly HSB 607.)
HF 2348 A bill for an act relating to nonsubstantive Code corrections. (Formerly HSB 621.) Effective 7-1-18.
HF 2343 A bill for an act prohibiting state agencies from implementing or enforcing any standard, requirement, or threshold without clear authorization. (Formerly HSB 574.) Effective 7-1-18.
HF 2328 A bill for an act providing for open adoptions and voluntary postadoption contact agreements relating to private termination of parental rights and adoption proceedings.
HF 2318 A bill for an act relating to redemption by certain persons of parcels sold at tax sale. (Formerly HSB 605.) Effective 7-1-18.
HF 2310 A bill for an act relating to the supervisory custody and control of a county courthouse. (Formerly HF 2146.)
HF 2300 A bill for an act relating to the practice of certain professions and limited liability companies and professional corporations and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 576.) Effective 4-2-18.
HF 2295 A bill for an act relating to the misrepresentation of a person as an owner or trainer of a service dog or assistive animal and providing penalties. (See HF 2396.)
HF 2284 A bill for an act relating to the statute of limitations period for executing judgments on claims for rent. (Formerly HSB 542.)
HF 2266 A bill for an act relating to the restoration of the rights of citizenship, and providing for a contingent effective date. (See HF 2429.)
HF 2249 A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of lascivious conduct with a minor, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 577.)
HF 2246 A bill for an act relating to hearings for temporary protective orders in domestic abuse and sexual abuse cases.
HF 2233 A bill for an act relating to mechanics’ liens, public construction liens, and the early release of retained funds. (Formerly HSB 524.) Effective 7-1-18.
HF 2232 A bill for an act relating to mortgage releases. (Formerly HSB 504.) Effective 7-1-18.
HF 2214 A bill for an act relating to hearings for temporary protective orders in domestic abuse and sexual abuse cases.
HF 2213 A bill for an act relating to intimidation with a dangerous weapon, and making penalties applicable.
HF 2209 A bill for an act relating to the standard of judicial review and providing a claim or defense when a state action burdens a person’s exercise of religion, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2208 A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of manufacturing, delivering, selling, or possessing drug paraphernalia by exempting hypodermic needles or syringes delivered, sold, or possessed through an approved needle exchange program.
HF 2207 A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of manufacturing, delivering, selling, or possessing drug paraphernalia and the establishment of a syringe services program.
HF 2199 A bill for an act relating to the criminal offenses of the illegal use of a scanning device or encoding machine and criminal mischief in the third degree, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 507.) Effective 7-1-18.
HF 2181 A bill for an act relating to the sale or transfer of firearms, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions.
HF 2180 A bill for an act relating to the creation of an extreme risk protective order against a person in possession of a firearm who presents a significant danger to the person’s self or others, and providing penalties.
HF 2179 A bill for an act relating to a lost or stolen firearm, and providing penalties.
HF 2164 A bill for an act relating to unfair practices involving access to areas of public accommodations or educational institutions.
HF 2147 A bill for an act relating to the treatment of certain incidents of human trafficking as child abuse and to mandatory or permissive reporting of such incidents, and making penalties applicable.
HF 2146 A bill for an act relating to the supervisory custody and control of a county courthouse. (See HF 2310.)
HF 2145 A bill for an act relating to the issuance, denial, suspension, or revocation of a permit to carry weapons.
HF 2144 A bill for an act prohibiting the manufacture, possession, shipment, transportation, or receipt of a multi-burst trigger activator, and providing penalties.
HF 2143 A bill for an act relating to the carrying, transportation, or possession of a pistol or revolver in the capitol building and on the grounds surrounding the capitol building including state parking lots and parking garages.
HF 2125 A bill for an act relating to probate by the distribution of decedent’s property by affidavit, requiring certain affirmations in the affidavit, and including an applicability provision. (Formerly HSB 500.) Effective 7-1-18.
HF 2106 A bill for an act providing for the constitutionality of statutes and including effective date provisions.
HF 2089 A bill for an act prohibiting the mistreatment of service dogs, including acts of interference or cruelty, and providing for penalties.
HF 2075 A bill for an act prohibiting the manufacture, possession, shipment, transportation, or receipt of a multi-burst trigger activator, and providing penalties.
HF 2074 A bill for an act relating to driver’s license suspensions and revocations for operating-while-intoxicated offenses.
HF 2067 A bill for an act relating to the possession, delivery, or possession with intent to deliver marijuana, and providing penalties.
HF 2066 A bill for an act relating to the expungement of simple misdemeanor offenses. (See HF 2452.)
HF 2054 A bill for an act relating to the limitations of criminal actions in kidnapping offenses, and providing penalties.
HF 2041 A bill for an act relating to reinstatement of lapsed use restrictions within a common interest community and including applicability provisions.
HF 2040 A bill for an act relating to the review of a child support order based upon an obligor’s qualification for a low-income adjustment. (See HF 2426.)
HF 2039 A bill for an act providing an extended period for appeals to city civil service commissions in circumstances involving a criminal conviction.
HF 2036 A bill for an act relating to the salary of supreme court justices.
HF 2035 A bill for an act relating to the status of employees of the judicial district departments of correctional services.
HF 2023 A bill for an act relating to operating-while-intoxicated offenses causing death or serious injury, and providing penalties.
HF 2022 A bill for an act relating to impoundment and immobilization of motor vehicles involved in operating-while-intoxicated offenses, and providing penalties.
HF 2012 A bill for an act relating to search warrants issued in the investigation of operating-while-intoxicated violations.
HF 2011 A bill for an act relating to motor vehicle operating records pertaining to arrests, convictions, and driver’s license revocations for operating-while-intoxicated offenses.
HF 623 A bill for an act relating to the rights of sexual assault survivors, and making appropriations.
HF 611 A bill for an act relating to firearm violence protective orders and making penalties applicable.
HF 580 A bill for an act relating to peace officer personal information under the control of local officials and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 32.)
HF 554 A bill for an act relating to the use of lighted headlamps by certain motor vehicles, and making a penalty applicable. (Formerly HF 432.)
HF 505 A bill for an act requiring a distinguishing mark on driver’s licenses issued to persons convicted of a third or subsequent offense of operating while intoxicated.
HF 499 A bill for an act relating to law enforcement profiling by standardizing collection and centralizing the compilation and reporting of officer stop and compliant data, providing for officer training, creating a community policing advisory board, providing for penalties and remedies, and including effective date provisions.
HF 489 A bill for an act relating to children who have committed certain sexual abuse offenses.
HF 488 A bill for an act relating to nonsubstantive Code corrections. (Formerly HSB 128.) Effective 7-1-17.
HF 479 A bill for an act relating to enforcement of federal immigration laws by the state, counties, and cities, creating an immigration enforcement reimbursement fund, and making an appropriation.
HF 455 A bill for an act relating to the definition of stalking and making penalties applicable.
HF 449 A bill for an act relating to child support obligations for incarcerated parents.
HF 448 A bill for an act relating to the involuntary commitment of a person with an intellectual disability who presents a danger to self or others, and making penalties applicable.
HF 429 A bill for an act relating to the confidentiality of audio records and transcripts of 911 service calls involving a child as a witness or victim, or as the maker or the subject of the 911 service call.
HF 428 A bill for an act relating to reporting accidents resulting in injury or death, and providing penalties. (See HF 2400.)
HF 413 A bill for an act relating to the issuance of a no-contact order by allowing for the supervision of a defendant by an electronic tracking and monitoring system.
HF 409 A bill for an act relating to the payment of court costs and other court-related fees by a city or county.
HF 399 A bill for an act relating to the validity of common law marriages in the state.
HF 398 A bill for an act prohibiting the sale or transfer of semiautomatic assault weapons, providing penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
HF 397 A bill for an act relating to firearms, by prohibiting certain persons from possessing, receiving, or transporting firearms, requiring the reporting of the loss or theft of a firearm to a local law enforcement agency, and providing penalties and remedies.
HF 389 A bill for an act relating to an habitual offender, and providing penalties.
HF 388 A bill for an act relating to the commission of sexual abuse in the third degree with persons who are sixteen or seventeen years of age, and providing penalties.
HF 387 A bill for an act establishing covenant marriages and including effective date provisions.
HF 358 A bill for an act relating to the offense of attempt to commit murder against a peace officer, and providing penalties.
HF 357 A bill for an act relating to asset forfeiture due to public offense convictions.
HF 356 A bill for an act relating to the expungement of convictions of state criminal offenses for alcohol consumption in public, public intoxication, simulated public intoxication, open container, or similar local ordinance offenses.
HF 339 A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of unauthorized computer access, and providing penalties.
HF 338 A bill for an act establishing a drug court in each judicial district and making appropriations.
HF 331 A bill for an act relating to notice requirements for probate proceedings.
HF 320 A bill for an act relating to the grounds for termination of parental rights in child in need of assistance cases.
HF 304 A bill for an act prohibiting a school district’s teachers and administrators from granting extra academic credit to students who contribute school supplies for use in the classroom. (Formerly HSB 33.)
HF 300 A bill for an act relating to marriage by modifying the waiting period before an issued marriage license becomes valid, providing an individual income tax credit and other certain license preferences for couples who complete qualified premarital counseling, and requiring certain information be provided to a party filing a petition for dissolution of marriage, and including retroactive applicability provisions.
HF 299 A bill for an act creating the Iowa end-of-life options Act and providing penalties.
HF 281 A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of invasion of privacy, and providing penalties.
HF 280 A bill for an act relating to eligibility to enter into installment agreements for the collection of court debt.
HF 238 A bill for an act relating to the expungement of simple misdemeanors and of violations of similar local ordinances.
HF 225 A bill for an act eliminating a deferred sentence as a criminal sentencing option.
HF 224 A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of accessory after the fact if the public offense involves a murder, and providing penalties.
HF 223 A bill for an act relating to the application of foreign laws and constitutional rights and including effective date provisions.
HF 222 A bill for an act relating to the limitation of actions for the criminal offense of accessory after the fact involving murder in the first degree, and making penalties applicable.
HF 200 A bill for an act relating to the possession, manufacture, or delivery of marijuana and the possession of drug paraphernalia, and providing penalties.
HF 191 A bill for an act relating to a general assembly member’s right to intervene in a court action and including effective date and applicability provisions.
HF 174 A bill for an act relating to eligibility to enter into installment agreements for the collection of court debt.
HF 173 A bill for an act requiring that elective members of the state and district judicial nominating commissions, and the county magistrate nominating commissions, be elected by the registered voters of the state.
HF 162 A bill for an act relating to the carrying, transportation, or possession of a firearm or ammunition in a motor vehicle at a place of employment.
HF 160 A bill for an act relating to entering or modifying and extending a no-contact order associated with a criminal offense classified as a simple misdemeanor.
HF 159 A bill for an act modifying the penalties for persons eighteen years of age or older who commit indecent exposure.
HF 158 A bill for an act relating to the operations and governance of certain common interest communities.
HF 157 A bill for an act prohibiting the sale or transfer of semiautomatic assault weapons, providing penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
HF 147 A bill for an act relating to the carrying and possession of weapons and providing penalties.
HF 145 A bill for an act relating to the sale or transfer of firearms, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions.
HF 134 A bill for an act relating to the authority of cities to regulate and restrict the occupancy of residential rental property. (Formerly HSB 3.) Effective 7-1-17.
HF 128 A bill for an act establishing a criminal sentencing commission.
HF 127 A bill for an act relating to civil protective orders and dating abuse, creating the criminal offense of dating abuse assault, making related modifications, and providing penalties.
HF 126 A bill for an act requiring a court to consider the statement of a child, who is the subject of a child custody determination, regarding the custody arrangement.
HF 113 A bill for an act relating to the revocation of driver’s licenses for drug-related criminal convictions, and including effective date provisions.
HF 96 A bill for an act relating to a reporting requirement for property seized for forfeiture or forfeited in this state, and including applicability provisions.
HF 88 A bill for an act modifying the elements defining hate crimes, and providing penalties.
HF 73 A bill for an act relating to the sale or transfer of firearms, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions.
HF 72 A bill for an act relating to the criteria for determining payment of spousal support.
HF 71 A bill for an act relating to the preference for joint custody and joint physical care of a child in awarding custody.
HF 70 A bill for an act prohibiting the sale or transfer of large capacity ammunition feeding devices, providing penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
HF 35 A bill for an act establishing a veterans treatment court in each judicial district.
HF 34 A bill for an act concerning motor vehicle-related violations that result in serious injury or death and are committed while the operator has a denied, canceled, suspended, revoked, or barred driver’s license, and providing penalties.
HF 33 A bill for an act relating to body piercing for minors and making penalties applicable.
HF 15 A bill for an act relating to the provision of an expedited process in a dissolution of marriage proceeding to determine the temporary custody of a minor child with chronic or complex medical needs.
HF 12 A bill for an act relating to the awarding of extraordinary visitation to a noncustodial parent.
HJR 2010 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the rights of a crime victim. (Formerly HJR 2003.)
HJR 2009 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right of the people to keep and bear arms. (Formerly HJR 13.) Sent to Secretary of State 3-27-18.
HJR 2007 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to persons convicted of an infamous crime.
HJR 2004 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the appointment of supreme court justices and district judges.
HJR 2003 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the rights of a crime victim. (See HJR 2010.)
HJR 2002 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the terms of supreme court justices.
HJR 2001 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the abolishment of retention elections for supreme court justices.
HJR 8 A joint resolution requesting the call of a constitutional convention in order to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to allow Congress and the states to prohibit or otherwise regulate the expenditure of funds for political speech by any corporation, limited liability company, or other corporate entity.
HJR 6 A joint resolution proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the appointment and jurisdiction of judicial officers.