Bills Sponsored By Committee

Judiciary (S)

Bill Bill Title
Link to BillBookSF 25 A bill for an act relating to the payment of victim restitution by a person convicted of a criminal offense. (Formerly SF 8.)
Link to BillBookSF 41 A bill for an act relating to the disposition of unclaimed property concerning minerals. (Formerly SSB 1006.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 69 A bill for an act adding hallucinogenic substances to the list of schedule I controlled substances, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1051.)
Link to BillBookSF 70 A bill for an act relating to crime victim compensation. (Formerly SSB 1005.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 110 A bill for an act relating to the standardized training and state certification of reserve peace officers. (Formerly SSB 1095.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 138 A bill for an act relating to jury service compensation, reimbursement, and confidentiality and exempting certain governmental employees from jury service compensation. (Formerly SSB 1070.)
Link to BillBookSF 139 A bill for an act relating to a criminal defendant filing an application for postconviction relief. (Formerly SSB 1007.) Vetoed 4-11-07.
Link to BillBookSF 140 A bill for an act relating to the time period for which peace officers' investigative reports and specific portions of electronic mail and telephone billing records are to be kept confidential. (Formerly SSB 1164.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 175 A bill for an act relating to the disposition of seized property in a criminal proceeding. (Formerly SSB 1108.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 200 A bill for an act providing for the liability of a landowner of land where livestock are kept or an owner of adjoining land for erecting and maintaining a fence, and providing for the assessment of property taxes. (Formerly SF 14.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 204 A bill for an act relating to the department of public safety practices and procedures. (Formerly SSB 1188.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 271 A bill for an act relating to the duties of directors of nonprofit corporations. (Formerly SSB 1092.)
Link to BillBookSF 272 A bill for an act relating to nonsubstantive Code corrections and including effective and retroactive applicability date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1219.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 311 A bill for an act relating to an action for satisfaction of a mortgage. (Formerly SSB 1206.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 333 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 effective and retroactive applicability date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1215.) Various effective dates; see section 116 of bill.
Link to BillBookSF 340 A bill for an act relating to the consideration of inherited or gifted property in dissolution-of-marriage property division proceedings and including an effective date and an applicability provision. (Formerly SSB 1093.) Effective 5-21-07.
Link to BillBookSF 373 A bill for an act relating to the postsecondary education subsidy. (Formerly SSB 1281.)
Link to BillBookSF 381 A bill for an act relating to judicial branch procedures, including appointments of court of appeals judges, district judges, district associate judges, associate juvenile judges, associate probate judges, magistrates, and patient advocates, and compensation to judges and other court personnel serving as fiduciaries. (Formerly SSB 1129.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 384 A bill for an act relating to statute of limitations provisions relating to minors and persons with mental illness and tort claims against a municipality and providing an applicability date. (Formerly SSB 1186.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 395 A bill for an act relating to the assessment of civil and criminal court fees and penalties. (Formerly SSB 1265. See SF 593.)
Link to BillBookSF 396 A bill for an act funding courthouse security programs through the enhanced court collections fund and creating a courthouse security commission. (Formerly SSB 1031.)
Link to BillBookSF 404 A bill for an act relating to revising the uniform commercial code, by providing for warehouse receipts, bills of lading, and other documents of title. (Formerly SSB 1218.)
Link to BillBookSF 406 A bill for an act relating to dogs, including the right to kill a tagged dog. (Formerly SF 170.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 429 A bill for an act relating to conciliation proceedings in a dissolution of marriage case and domestic abuse. (Formerly SSB 1282.)
Link to BillBookSF 430 A bill for an act relating to a civil judgment, decree, or order of a court of a federally recognized Indian tribe and including an applicability provision. (Formerly SSB 1189.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 434 A bill for an act to require a landlord to have good cause to terminate a mobile home space rental agreement. (Formerly SF 198.)
Link to BillBookSF 436 A bill for an act concerning the employment of unauthorized aliens and human trafficking and providing penalties and other sanctions and an appropriation. (Formerly SSB 1283.)
Link to BillBookSF 445 A bill for an act increasing punitive damages that may be awarded for wrongful retention of certain rental deposits. (Formerly SF 119.)
Link to BillBookSF 454 A bill for an act relating to judicial branch practices and procedures, including expanding the definition of a seal, eliminating duties of the clerk of the supreme court, making confidential personal information, and obtaining electronic signatures on citations. (Formerly SSB 1109.)
Link to BillBookSF 455 A bill for an act restricting the presence of a registered sex offender on the real property comprising a school or child care facility and providing a penalty. (Formerly SSB 1085.)
Link to BillBookSF 456 A bill for an act relating to the issuance of temporary orders modifying an order of child support or custody. (Formerly SSB 1050.)
Link to BillBookSF 457 A bill for an act relating to the rights of peace officers and public safety and emergency personnel. (Formerly SSB 1214.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 458 A bill for an act relating to under legal age consumption or possession of an alcoholic beverage on certain property, and providing penalties. (Formerly SF 292.)
Link to BillBookSF 473 A bill for an act allowing a competent adult to execute a written instrument designating a person to have sole responsibility and discretion concerning the final disposition of that adult's remains, including coordinating provisions, and providing applicability dates. (Formerly SSB 1217.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 487 A bill for an act requiring the state fire marshal to assess the practice and impact of selling novelty lighters. (Formerly SF 330.)
Link to BillBookSF 491 A bill for an act prohibiting a person who is the subject of a protective order or who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence in violation of federal law from possessing, transferring, or selling firearms or offensive weapons and providing a penalty. (Formerly SSB 1234.)
Link to BillBookSF 492 A bill for an act relating to the Iowa law enforcement academy and minimum entrance requirements. (Formerly SSB 1232.)
Link to BillBookSF 501 A bill for an act relating to specified types of business solicitations, providing an exception from applicability of certain requirements for sales conducted by mail, the telephone, or the internet. (Formerly SSB 1286.)
Link to BillBookSF 505 A bill for an act relating to civil liability for damages relating to the use of an automated external defibrillator in sudden cardiac arrest emergencies. (Formerly SSB 1318.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 507 A bill for an act relating to joint physical care of children in dissolution cases and establishing a rebuttable presumption that a request for joint physical care is in the best interest of the child. (Formerly SF 315.)
Link to BillBookSF 509 A bill for an act relating to a revised uniform anatomical gift Act, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1288.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 517 A bill for an act relating to the development, management, and efficient use of energy resources, making energy-related modifications to the state building code, setting fees, making appropriations, and providing an effective date. (Formerly SF 288.) Effective 4-29-08.
Link to BillBookSF 520 A bill for an act creating a private cause of action for certain consumer fraud violations. (Formerly SSB 1081.)
Link to BillBookSF 521 A bill for an act relating to judicial branch practices and procedures including but not limited to adoption petitions, clerk of the district court duties and recordkeeping affecting real estate, the confidentiality of arrest warrants, and notices by the department of corrections to the clerk of the district court. (Formerly SSB 1187.)
Link to BillBookSF 522 A bill for an act relating to communications made in professional confidence concerning health care, patient access to the patient's medical file, and health care records and providing for fees. (Formerly SSB 1097.) (See SF 2155.)
Link to BillBookSF 523 A bill for an act relating to a person under legal age submitting to a preliminary screening test for the detection of the presence of alcohol, and providing a penalty. (Formerly SF 375.)
Link to BillBookSF 524 A bill for an act relating to the criminal penalties for certain offenses involving sexual abuse in the second degree, lascivious acts with a child, and sexual exploitation, and establishing a duty to inform law enforcement about a registered sex offender. (Formerly SF 180.)
Link to BillBookSF 525 A bill for an act relating to developing policies for electronically recording an interrogation of a person suspected of a crime. (Formerly SSB 1324.)
Link to BillBookSF 526 A bill for an act relating to issuing subpoenas for an investigation or prosecution of a simple misdemeanor. (Formerly SF 226.)
Link to BillBookSF 528 A bill for an act prohibiting the department of corrections from entering into an agreement with a private sector for-profit entity for the purpose of housing inmates. (Formerly SF 96.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 529 A bill for an act expanding the criminal offense of possessing contraband in correctional institutions to include possessing contraband in a secure facility for the detention or custody of juveniles, a detention facility, or a jail, and providing a penalty. (Formerly SSB 1285.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 531 A bill for an act relating to expunging a record of conviction for theft in the fifth degree offenses. (Formerly SSB 1326.)
Link to BillBookSF 532 A bill for an act relating to condemnation of property by consent of the property owner. (Formerly SF 20.)
Link to BillBookSF 533 A bill for an act relating to a debtor's exempt personal injury payments in state court debt collection and federal bankruptcy actions. (Formerly SSB 1099.)
Link to BillBookSF 534 A bill for an act relating to civil protective orders and criminal no-contact orders. (Formerly SSB 1280.)
Link to BillBookSF 535 A bill for an act relating to general provisions of the uniform commercial code relating to the construction and application of its subject matter, and providing for a contingent effective date. (Formerly SSB 1327.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 538 A bill for an act relating to a parent's cause of action for the recovery of expenses and actual loss of services, companionship, and society resulting from the injury to or death of a child and including an applicability date provision. (Formerly SSB 1138.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 540 A bill for an act relating to trusts and estates including fiduciaries and beneficiaries and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1274.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 545 A bill for an act relating to a sex act committed with a person assigned to the judicial district department of correctional services or a person under the dominion and control of a peace officer, eliminating certain reporting requirements, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1052.)
Link to BillBookSF 546 A bill for an act relating to a hospital lien. (Formerly SSB 1144.) Effective 7-1-07.
Link to BillBookSF 549 A bill for an act relating to judicial branch practices and procedures, including distribution of court revenue to cities and counties, ordering hearings for forcible entry and detainer actions, and forfeiting bail for failure to appear. (Formerly SSB 1079.)
Link to BillBookSF 550 A bill for an act relating to confinement feeding operations by providing for the review of permits involving construction, and including an applicability provision. (Formerly SSB 1328.)
Link to BillBookSF 552 A bill for an act concerning limitations on actions for civil liability related to the dramshop Act. (Formerly SSB 1098.)
Link to BillBookSF 2036 A bill for an act relating to the division of criminal and juvenile justice planning of the department of human rights by making changes to the membership of the council, permitting access to the records of the department of workforce development, and modifying the sex offender treatment and supervision task force. (Formerly SSB 3019.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2132 A bill for an act relating to notices regarding the disposition of seized property and providing an effective date. (Formerly SF 2012.) Effective 5-10-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2155 A bill for an act relating to communications made in professional confidence concerning health care, patient access to the patient's medical file, and health care records and providing for fees. (Formerly SSB 1097 & SF 522.)
Link to BillBookSF 2211 A bill for an act relating to the residency of a district judge nominee. (Formerly SF 2057.)
Link to BillBookSF 2212 A bill for an act relating to determinations in child in need of assistance proceedings, and modifying circumstances for termination of parental rights. (Formerly SSB 3122.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2214 A bill for an act relating to modification of a custody or physical care order or decree during the time a parent is serving active duty. (Formerly SF 2072.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2215 A bill for an act establishing a tool and die lien Act. (Formerly SF 2022.)
Link to BillBookSF 2217 A bill for an act relating to providing legal representation to an eligible indigent person and the appointment of a guardian ad litem. (Formerly SSB 3076.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2275 A bill for an act relating to domestic abuse protective orders and animals owned or held by a petitioner, respondent, or minor child of the petitioner or respondent in domestic abuse cases. (Formerly SF 2095.)
Link to BillBookSF 2277 A bill for an act relating to offenses against identity by establishing a procedure to secure credit information and providing a penalty. (Formerly SSB 3213.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2280 A bill for an act relating to reporting requirements for traffic accidents involving the operation of motor vehicles by reserve peace officers. (Formerly SSB 3124.)
Link to BillBookSF 2281 A bill for an act prohibiting employment discrimination against an employee witness in certain civil proceedings. (Formerly SF 2103.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2316 A bill for an act creating the Iowa uniform prudent management of institutional funds Act and including an applicability provision. (Formerly SSB 3232.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2317 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 effective and retroactive applicability date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3215.) Various effective dates; see section 116 of bill.
Link to BillBookSF 2320 A bill for an act relating to nonsubstantive Code corrections and including effective and retroactive applicability date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3241.) Various effective dates; see section 202 of bill.
Link to BillBookSF 2322 A bill for an act establishing second deputy sheriff positions in certain counties. (Formerly SSB 3240.)
Link to BillBookSF 2331 A bill for an act relating to filing and docketing fees collected by the clerk of the district court for parking violations and tribal judgments, fees for examination and admission to practice law, appropriations from the jury and witness fee revolving fund, and providing an effective date. (Formerly SSB 3016.) (See SF 2426.)
Link to BillBookSF 2335 A bill for an act relating to the rights of a victim of an alleged sexual assault and notification of these rights by a peace officer. (Formerly SSB 3272.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2340 A bill for an act requiring certain identity documents to be provided to children subject to a court order for out-of-home placement. (Formerly SF 2285.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2342 A bill for an act relating to the time limit on executions of judgments and orders. (Formerly SSB 3239.)
Link to BillBookSF 2343 A bill for an act relating to civil liability and other penalties for social hosts providing alcoholic beverages to persons under legal age. (Formerly SSB 3204.)
Link to BillBookSF 2350 A bill for an act relating to trusts and estates including the administration of small estates, and including retroactive and other applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3231.) Effective 7-1-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2353 A bill for an act relating to the appointment of certain judicial officers, the retirement of senior judges, and the entry of temporary custody and visitation orders. (Formerly SSB 3161.)
Link to BillBookSF 2356 A bill for an act relating to the judicial branch including contested and uncontested parking violations, filing civil citations of municipal infractions with the clerk, and records kept by the clerk. (Formerly SSB 3075.)
Link to BillBookSF 2364 A bill for an act relating to the emancipation of a minor. (Formerly SSB 3209.) Vetoed 5-15-08.
Link to BillBookSF 2382 A bill for an act relating to deferred judgment criminal records. (Formerly SSB 3212.)
Link to BillBookSF 2395 A bill for an act relating to business associations, by providing for limited liability companies and conversion involving corporations, providing fees and penalties, and providing an effective date. (Formerly SSB 3248.)