Bills Sponsored By Committee

Judiciary (S)

Bill Bill Title
SF 25 A bill for an act relating to the payment of victim restitution by a person convicted of a criminal offense. (Formerly SF 8.)
SF 41 A bill for an act relating to the disposition of unclaimed property concerning minerals. (Formerly SSB 1006.) Effective 7-1-07.
SF 69 A bill for an act adding hallucinogenic substances to the list of schedule I controlled substances, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1051.)
SF 70 A bill for an act relating to crime victim compensation. (Formerly SSB 1005.) Effective 7-1-07.
SF 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.
SF 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.)
SF 139 A bill for an act relating to a criminal defendant filing an application for postconviction relief. (Formerly SSB 1007.) Vetoed 4-11-07.
SF 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.
SF 175 A bill for an act relating to the disposition of seized property in a criminal proceeding. (Formerly SSB 1108.) Effective 7-1-07.
SF 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.
SF 204 A bill for an act relating to the department of public safety practices and procedures. (Formerly SSB 1188.) Effective 7-1-07.
SF 271 A bill for an act relating to the duties of directors of nonprofit corporations. (Formerly SSB 1092.)
SF 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.
SF 311 A bill for an act relating to an action for satisfaction of a mortgage. (Formerly SSB 1206.) Effective 7-1-07.
SF 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.
SF 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.
SF 373 A bill for an act relating to the postsecondary education subsidy. (Formerly SSB 1281.)
SF 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.
SF 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.
SF 395 A bill for an act relating to the assessment of civil and criminal court fees and penalties. (Formerly SSB 1265. See SF 593.)
SF 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.)
SF 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.)
SF 406 A bill for an act relating to dogs, including the right to kill a tagged dog. (Formerly SF 170.) Effective 7-1-07.
SF 429 A bill for an act relating to conciliation proceedings in a dissolution of marriage case and domestic abuse. (Formerly SSB 1282.)
SF 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.
SF 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.)
SF 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.)
SF 445 A bill for an act increasing punitive damages that may be awarded for wrongful retention of certain rental deposits. (Formerly SF 119.)
SF 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.)
SF 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.)
SF 456 A bill for an act relating to the issuance of temporary orders modifying an order of child support or custody. (Formerly SSB 1050.)
SF 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.
SF 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.)
SF 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.
SF 487 A bill for an act requiring the state fire marshal to assess the practice and impact of selling novelty lighters. (Formerly SF 330.)
SF 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.)
SF 492 A bill for an act relating to the Iowa law enforcement academy and minimum entrance requirements. (Formerly SSB 1232.)
SF 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.)
SF 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.
SF 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.)
SF 509 A bill for an act relating to a revised uniform anatomical gift Act, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1288.) Effective 7-1-07.
SF 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.
SF 520 A bill for an act creating a private cause of action for certain consumer fraud violations. (Formerly SSB 1081.)
SF 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.)
SF 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.)
SF 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.)
SF 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.)
SF 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.)
SF 526 A bill for an act relating to issuing subpoenas for an investigation or prosecution of a simple misdemeanor. (Formerly SF 226.)
SF 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.
SF 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.
SF 531 A bill for an act relating to expunging a record of conviction for theft in the fifth degree offenses. (Formerly SSB 1326.)
SF 532 A bill for an act relating to condemnation of property by consent of the property owner. (Formerly SF 20.)
SF 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.)
SF 534 A bill for an act relating to civil protective orders and criminal no-contact orders. (Formerly SSB 1280.)
SF 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.
SF 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.
SF 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.
SF 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.)
SF 546 A bill for an act relating to a hospital lien. (Formerly SSB 1144.) Effective 7-1-07.
SF 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.)
SF 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.)
SF 552 A bill for an act concerning limitations on actions for civil liability related to the dramshop Act. (Formerly SSB 1098.)
SF 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.
SF 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.
SF 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.)
SF 2211 A bill for an act relating to the residency of a district judge nominee. (Formerly SF 2057.)
SF 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.
SF 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.
SF 2215 A bill for an act establishing a tool and die lien Act. (Formerly SF 2022.)
SF 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.
SF 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.)
SF 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.
SF 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.)
SF 2281 A bill for an act prohibiting employment discrimination against an employee witness in certain civil proceedings. (Formerly SF 2103.) Effective 7-1-08.
SF 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.
SF 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.
SF 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.
SF 2322 A bill for an act establishing second deputy sheriff positions in certain counties. (Formerly SSB 3240.)
SF 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.)
SF 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.
SF 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.
SF 2342 A bill for an act relating to the time limit on executions of judgments and orders. (Formerly SSB 3239.)
SF 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.)
SF 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.
SF 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.)
SF 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.)
SF 2364 A bill for an act relating to the emancipation of a minor. (Formerly SSB 3209.) Vetoed 5-15-08.
SF 2382 A bill for an act relating to deferred judgment criminal records. (Formerly SSB 3212.)
SF 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.)