Senate File 2411 S-5277 Amend Senate File 2411 as follows: 1 1. By striking everything after the enacting clause and 2 inserting: 3 < Section 1. 2017 Iowa Acts, chapter 166, section 9, is 4 amended to read as follows: 5 SEC. 9. JUDICIAL BRANCH. 6 1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state 7 to the judicial branch for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 8 2018, and ending June 30, 2019, the following amounts, or so 9 much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes 10 designated: 11 a. For salaries of supreme court justices, appellate court 12 judges, district court judges, district associate judges, 13 associate juvenile judges, associate probate judges, judicial 14 magistrates and staff, state court administrator, clerk of the 15 supreme court, district court administrators, clerks of the 16 district court, juvenile court officers, board of law examiners 17 and board of examiners of shorthand reporters and judicial 18 qualifications commission; receipt and disbursement of child 19 support payments; reimbursement of the auditor of state for 20 expenses incurred in completing audits of the offices of the 21 clerks of the district court during the fiscal year beginning 22 July 1, 2018; and maintenance, equipment, and miscellaneous 23 purposes: 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 87,843,306 25 177,574,797 26 b. For deposit in the revolving fund created pursuant to 27 section 602.1302, subsection 3 , for jury and witness fees, 28 mileage, costs related to summoning jurors, costs and fees for 29 interpreters and translators, and reimbursement of attorney 30 fees paid by the state public defender: 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,550,000 32 3,100,000 33 2. The judicial branch, except for purposes of internal 34 processing, shall use the current state budget system, the 35 -1- SF2411.5583 (2) 87 jm/rn 1/ 3 #1.
state payroll system, and the Iowa finance and accounting 1 system in administration of programs and payments for services, 2 and shall not duplicate the state payroll, accounting, and 3 budgeting systems. 4 3. The judicial branch shall submit monthly financial 5 statements to the legislative services agency and the 6 department of management containing all appropriated accounts 7 in the same manner as provided in the monthly financial status 8 reports and personal services usage reports of the department 9 of administrative services. The monthly financial statements 10 shall include a comparison of the dollars and percentage 11 spent of budgeted versus actual revenues and expenditures on 12 a cumulative basis for full-time equivalent positions and 13 dollars. 14 4. The judicial branch shall focus efforts upon the 15 collection of delinquent fines, penalties, court costs, fees, 16 surcharges, or similar amounts. 17 5. It is the intent of the general assembly that the offices 18 of the clerks of the district court operate in all 99 counties 19 and be accessible to the public as much as is reasonably 20 possible in order to address the relative needs of the citizens 21 of each county. 22 6. In addition to the requirements for transfers under 23 section 8.39 , the judicial branch shall not change the 24 appropriations from the amounts appropriated to the judicial 25 branch in this division of this Act, unless notice of the 26 revisions is given prior to their effective date to the 27 legislative services agency. The notice shall include 28 information on the branch’s rationale for making the changes 29 and details concerning the workload and performance measures 30 upon which the changes are based. 31 7. The judicial branch shall submit a semiannual update 32 to the legislative services agency specifying the amounts of 33 fines, surcharges, and court costs collected using the Iowa 34 court information system since the last report. The judicial 35 -2- SF2411.5583 (2) 87 jm/rn 2/ 3
branch shall continue to facilitate the sharing of vital 1 sentencing and other information with other state departments 2 and governmental agencies involved in the criminal justice 3 system through the Iowa court information system. 4 8. The judicial branch shall provide a report to the general 5 assembly by January 1, 2019, concerning the amounts received 6 and expended from the enhanced court collections fund created 7 in section 602.1304 and the court technology and modernization 8 fund created in section 602.8108, subsection 9 , during the 9 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018, 10 and the plans for expenditures from each fund during the fiscal 11 year beginning July 1, 2018, and ending June 30, 2019. A copy 12 of the report shall be provided to the legislative services 13 agency. > 14 ______________________________ MARK CHELGREN -3- SF2411.5583 (2) 87 jm/rn 3/ 3