House File 433 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  HEATON


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the confinement of out=of=state sexually
  2    violent predators.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1797YH 82
  5 jm/cf/24

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 229A.7, subsection 7, Code 2007, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    7.  The control, care, and treatment of a person determined
  1  4 to be a sexually violent predator shall be provided at a
  1  5 facility operated by the department of human services.  At all
  1  6 times prior to placement in a transitional release program or
  1  7 release with or without supervision, persons committed for
  1  8 control, care, and treatment by the department of human
  1  9 services pursuant to this chapter shall be kept in a secure
  1 10 facility and those patients shall be segregated at all times
  1 11 from any other patient under the supervision of the department
  1 12 of human services.  A person committed pursuant to this
  1 13 chapter to the custody of the department of human services may
  1 14 be kept in a facility or building separate from any other
  1 15 patient under the supervision of the department of human
  1 16 services.  The department of human services may enter into a
  1 17 chapter 28E agreement with the department of corrections or
  1 18 other appropriate agency in this state or another state for
  1 19 the confinement of patients who have been determined to be
  1 20 sexually violent predators in this state or another state.
  1 21 Patients who are in the custody of the director of the
  1 22 department of corrections pursuant to a chapter 28E agreement
  1 23 and who have not been placed in a transitional release program
  1 24 or released with or without supervision shall be housed and
  1 25 managed separately from criminal offenders in the custody of
  1 26 the director of the department of corrections, and except for
  1 27 occasional instances of supervised incidental contact, shall
  1 28 be segregated from those offenders.
  1 29                           EXPLANATION
  1 30    This bill relates to the confinement of sexually violent
  1 31 predators.
  1 32    The bill specifies the department of human services may
  1 33 enter into a Code chapter 28E agreement with another state to
  1 34 confine sexually violent predators from another state in this
  1 35 state.
  2  1 LSB 1797YH 82
  2  2 jm/cf/24