H-8454

   Amend  the amendment, H-8449, to House File 2769, as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 4 by inserting: 
<<DIVISION ___
FY 2026-2027 APPROPRIATIONS>
   2.  Page 4, line 21, after <this> by inserting <division of this>
   3.  Page 5, lines 24 and 25, by striking <by 2025 Iowa Acts, chapter 158, section 6,> and inserting <pursuant to section 602.1401>
   4.  Page 6, after line 6 by inserting: 
<DIVISION ___
JUDICIAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM>
   5.  Page 6, after line 29 by inserting: 
<DIVISION ___
JUDICIAL BRANCH SALARIES

   Sec. ___.  Section 602.1401, subsections 1 and 5, Code 2026, are amended to read as follows:
   1.  The supreme court shall establish, and may amend, a personnel system and a pay and benefits plan for judicial officers, the state court administrator, and court employees. The personnel system shall include a designation by position title, classification, and function of each position or class of positions within the judicial branch. Reasonable efforts shall be made to accommodate the individual staffing and management practices of the respective clerks of the district court. The personnel system, in the employment of court employees, shall not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, physical disability, or political party preference. The supreme court, in establishing the personnel system, shall implement the comparable worth directives issued by the state court administrator under section 602.1204, subsection 2. The personnel system shall include the prohibitions against sexual harassment of full-time, part-time, and temporary employees set out in section 19B.12, and shall include a grievance procedure for discriminatory harassment. The personnel system shall develop and distribute at the time of hiring or orientation, a guide that describes for employees the applicable sexual harassment prohibitions and grievance, violation, and disposition procedures. This subsection does not supersede the remedies provided under chapter 216.
   5.  The pay and benefits plan shall set the compensation and benefits of judicial officers, the state court administrator, and court employees within the funds appropriated by the general assembly.
   Sec. ___.  Section 602.1502, subsection 1, Code 2026, is amended by striking the subsection.
   Sec. ___.  Section 602.6808, subsection 1, if enacted by 2026 Iowa Acts, Senate File 639, section 8, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A judge of the business court shall receive the annual salary set for a district judge under section 602.1501 602.1401.
   Sec. ___.  Section 602.9104, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  A judge to whom this article applies shall be paid an amount equal to the basic salary of the judge as set by the general assembly pursuant to section 602.1401 reduced by an amount designated as the judge’s required contribution to the judicial retirement fund. The amount designated as the judge’s required contribution shall be paid by the state in the manner provided in subsection 2.
   Sec. ___.  Section 602.9204, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  A judge who retires on or after July 1, 1994, and who is appointed a senior judge under section 602.9203 shall be paid a salary as determined by the general assembly pursuant to section 602.1401.
   Sec. ___.  Section 602.9303, subsection 1, if enacted by 2026 Iowa Acts, House File 2706, section 30, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A magistrate who retires on or after the effective date of this division of this Act, and who is appointed a senior magistrate under section 602.9302, shall be paid a salary as determined by the general assembly pursuant to section 602.1401.
   Sec. ___.  REPEAL.  2026 Iowa Acts, House File 2706, sections 35, 36, and 37, if enacted, are repealed.
   Sec. ___.  REPEAL.  Section 602.1501, Code 2026, is repealed.
   Sec. ___.  JUDICIAL OFFICERS —— CURRENT SALARY RATES SUPERSEDED.  For purposes of 2025 Iowa Acts, chapter 158, section 6, subsection 1, this division of this Act shall be deemed as the provision of salary rates for judicial officers by the general assembly for fiscal years subsequent to the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025.
   Sec. ___.  JUDICIAL OFFICER SALARY INCREASE.  It is the intent of the general assembly that the judicial branch increase the salaries for judicial officers by four and three-tenths percent for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027.
   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This division of this Act takes effect June 19, 2026.>
   ___.  Title page, line 2, after <branch> by inserting <, and including effective date provisions>>
   6.  By renumbering as necessary.

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WESSEL-KROESCHELL of Story