House File 2094 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  BAILEY and DAVITT


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the reopening of a criminal sentence for a
  2    defendant convicted of conspiracy to manufacture, deliver, or
  3    possess with intent to deliver amphetamine or methamphetamine
  4    to a minor.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  6 TLSB 5718YH 82
  7 jm/rj/24

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 901.5A, subsection 2, Code 2007, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  Upon a finding by the court that the defendant
  1  4 cooperated in the prosecution of other persons, the court may
  1  5 reduce the maximum sentence imposed under the original
  1  6 sentencing order to a term of not less than twenty years of
  1  7 confinement.
  1  8                           EXPLANATION
  1  9    This bill relates to the reopening of a criminal sentence
  1 10 for a defendant convicted of conspiracy to manufacture,
  1 11 deliver, or possess with intent to deliver amphetamine or
  1 12 methamphetamine to a minor.
  1 13    Under the bill, upon a finding by the court that the
  1 14 defendant cooperated in the prosecution of others, the court
  1 15 may reduce the 99=year term of confinement to a term of not
  1 16 less than 20 years of confinement.  Under current law the
  1 17 court is not limited in the number of years the 99=year term
  1 18 can be reduced upon a finding the defendant cooperated in the
  1 19 prosecution of others.
  1 20 LSB 5718YH 82
  1 21 jm/rj/24