HF 159 (LSB 1136HV (3) 86)

RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF COMBINED GUARDIANSHIP AND CONSERVATORSHIP PROCEEDINGS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 633.27A, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   633.27A  Docketing guardianship and conservatorship proceedings —— applicability of separate reporting requirements.

   When a petition is filed for a conservatorship or guardianship, or a combined petition as provided in section 633.627, the administration thereof shall be treated as a separate one proceeding, with a separate one docket number, from the date of the filing of the petition.  The separate reporting requirements for conservatorships and guardianships shall continue to apply in a combined petition. The clerk shall clearly indicate on the docket whether the proceedings 

are voluntary or involuntary and whether a guardianship, a conservatorship, or combined.

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KRAIG PAULSEN

Speaker of the House

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PAM JOCHUM

President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 159, Eighty-sixth General Assembly.

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CARMINE BOAL

Chief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2015

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TERRY E. BRANSTAD

Governor