House Study Bill 571



                                     SENATE/HOUSE FILE       
                                     BY  (PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
                                          SAFETY BILL)



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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the use of a peace officer of the department
  2    of public safety in an industrial dispute and providing an
  3    effective date.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 5380XD 81
  6 jm/cf/24

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 80.24, Code Supplement 2005, is amended
  1  2 to read as follows:
  1  3    80.24  MUNICIPAL AND INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.
  1  4    A peace officer of the department shall not be used or
  1  5 called upon for service within any municipality or in any
  1  6 involving an industrial dispute unless a threat of imminent
  1  7 violence exists, and then only either by order of the governor
  1  8 or on the request of the chief executive officer of the
  1  9 municipality or the sheriff of the county where the threat of
  1 10 imminent violence exists if such request is approved by the
  1 11 governor.
  1 12    Sec. 2.  CODE EDITOR DIRECTIVE.  The Code editor is
  1 13 directed to change the term "bureau of criminal
  1 14 identification" or "bureau" to "division of criminal
  1 15 investigation" or "division" wherever the term appears in the
  1 16 Code or in the Acts pending codification.
  1 17    Sec. 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  The section of this Act amending
  1 18 section 80.24, being deemed of immediate importance, takes
  1 19 effect upon enactment.
  1 20                           EXPLANATION
  1 21    This bill relates to the use of a peace officer of the
  1 22 department of public safety in an industrial dispute.
  1 23    The bill provides that a peace officer of the department of
  1 24 public safety shall not be called upon for service within any
  1 25 municipality involving an industrial dispute unless a threat
  1 26 of imminent violence exists and the governor approves the use
  1 27 of such peace officers in the dispute.
  1 28    Current law provides that a peace officer of the department
  1 29 of public safety shall not be called upon for service within
  1 30 any municipality or in any industrial dispute unless a threat
  1 31 of imminent violence exists and the governor approves the use
  1 32 of such peace officers in the municipality or dispute.
  1 33    The section of the bill amending the use of peace officers
  1 34 of the department of public safety in an industrial dispute
  1 35 takes effect upon enactment.
  2  1 LSB 5380XD 81
  2  2 jm:rj/cf/24