Senate File 2172

                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

                                       (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3048)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act modifying the criminal penalty for certain thefts within a
  2    seventy=two=hour time period.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 5768SV 80
  5 jm/sh/8

PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 714.3, unnumbered paragraph 2, Code
  1  2 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    If money or property is stolen from the same person or
  1  4 location by two or more acts, or from different persons by two
  1  5 or more acts which occur in approximately the same location or
  1  6 time period, or from different locations by two or more acts
  1  7 within a seventy=two=hour time period, so that the thefts are
  1  8 attributable to a single scheme, plan, or conspiracy, these
  1  9 acts may be considered a single theft and the value may be the
  1 10 total value of all the property stolen.
  1 11                           EXPLANATION
  1 12    This bill allows a modified criminal penalty for certain
  1 13 thefts within a 72=hour time period.
  1 14    The bill provides that if property is stolen from different
  1 15 locations by two or more acts within a 72=hour time period and
  1 16 the thefts are attributable to a person or a group of persons
  1 17 acting together in a single scheme, plan, or conspiracy, these
  1 18 acts may be considered a single theft and the value of the
  1 19 thefts may be the total value of all property stolen.
  1 20    Under current law in Code section 714.2, the penalty for
  1 21 theft depends upon the value of property stolen.
  1 22 LSB 5768SV 80
  1 23 jm/sh/8
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