House File 30 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY MADDOX
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to the confidentiality of proceedings and
2 documents of the commission on judicial qualifications.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
4 TLSB 1009HH 81
5 jm/cf/24
PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 602.2103, Code 2005, is amended to read
1 2 as follows:
1 3 602.2103 OPERATION OF COMMISSION.
1 4 A quorum of the commission is four members. Only those
1 5 commission Commission members that are must be present at
1 6 commission meetings or hearings may to vote. An application
1 7 by the commission to the supreme court to retire, discipline,
1 8 or remove a judicial officer, or discipline or remove an
1 9 employee of the judicial branch, or an action by the
1 10 commission which affects the final disposition of a complaint,
1 11 requires the affirmative vote of at least four commission
1 12 members. Notwithstanding chapter 21 and chapter 22, all
1 13 records, papers, proceedings, meetings, and hearings of the
1 14 commission are confidential, but if the commission applies to
1 15 the supreme court to retire, discipline, or remove a judicial
1 16 officer, or to discipline or remove an employee of the
1 17 judicial branch, the application and all. However, all of the
1 18 records and papers in that relating to a commission
1 19 proceeding, meeting, or hearing are public documents.
1 20 EXPLANATION
1 21 This bill relates to the commission on judicial
1 22 qualifications. All records and documents related to any
1 23 commission proceeding are made public documents by the bill.
1 24 Under current law only those records or documents relating to
1 25 the commission's application to the supreme court to
1 26 discipline a judge are public documents.
1 27 The commission on judicial qualifications considers
1 28 complaints against judges and, if the complaint is
1 29 substantiated, makes an application to the supreme court for
1 30 disciplining the judge.
1 31 LSB 1009HH 81
1 32 jm/cf/24.1