House File 433 - Enrolled House File 433 AN ACT RELATING TO COURT REPORTERS, INCLUDING THE REPORTING OF ADOPTION HEARINGS AND UNCERTIFIED SHORTHAND REPORTER APPOINTMENTS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. Section 600.12, subsection 1, Code 2021, is amended to read as follows: 1. An adoption hearing shall be conducted informally as a hearing in equity. The hearing shall be reported or electronically recorded . Sec. 2. Section 602.6603, subsection 4, Code 2021, is amended to read as follows: 4. If a regularly appointed court reporter becomes disabled, or if a vacancy occurs in a regularly appointed court reporter position, the judge may appoint a competent uncertified shorthand reporter for a period of time of up to six months one year , upon verification by the chief judge that a diligent but unsuccessful search has been conducted to appoint a certified shorthand reporter to the position and, in a disability case, that the regularly appointed court reporter is disabled. An uncertified shorthand reporter shall not be reappointed to the position unless the reporter becomes a

House File 433, p. 2 certified shorthand reporter within the period of appointment under this subsection . ______________________________ PAT GRASSLEY Speaker of the House ______________________________ JAKE CHAPMAN President of the Senate I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 433, Eighty-ninth General Assembly. ______________________________ MEGHAN NELSON Chief Clerk of the House Approved _______________, 2021 ______________________________ KIM REYNOLDS Governor