Senate File 2322 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3240) Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act establishing second deputy sheriff positions in certain 2 counties. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 6520SV 82 5 jm/nh/8 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 341A.7, Code 2007, is amended to read 1 2 as follows: 1 3 341A.7 CLASSIFICATIONS. 1 4 1. The classified civil service positions covered by this 1 5 chapter include persons actually serving as deputy sheriffs 1 6 who are salaried pursuant to section 331.904, subsection 2, 1 7 but do not include a chief deputy sheriff, two second deputy 1 8 sheriffs in counties with a population of more than one 1 9 hundred thousand, three second deputy sheriffs in counties 1 10 with a population of more than one hundred fifty thousand, and 1 11 four second deputy sheriffs in counties with a population of 1 12 more than two hundred thousand. However, a chief deputy 1 13 sheriff or second deputy sheriff who becomes a candidate for a 1 14 partisan elective office for remuneration is subject to 1 15 section 341A.18. A deputy sheriff serving with permanent rank 1 16 under this chapter may be designated chief deputy sheriff or 1 17 second deputy sheriff and retain that rank during the period 1 18 of service as chief deputy sheriff or second deputy sheriff 1 19 and shall, upon termination of the duties as chief deputy 1 20 sheriff or second deputy sheriff, revert to the permanent 1 21 rank. 1 22 2. If the positions of two second deputy sheriffs of a 1 23 county were exempt from classified civil service coverage 1 24 under this chapter based on the 1980 decennial census, the two 1 25 second deputy positions shall remain exempt from classified 1 26 civil service coverage under this chapter. 1 27 Sec. 2. IMPLEMENTATION OF ACT. Section 25B.2, subsection 1 28 3, shall not apply to this Act. 1 29 EXPLANATION 1 30 This bill relates to the classifications of second deputy 1 31 sheriffs in certain counties. 1 32 The bill establishes three deputy sheriffs positions 1 33 classified as second deputy sheriffs in counties with a 1 34 population of more than 150,000 but not more than 200,000. 1 35 Under the bill and in current law, second deputy sheriff 2 1 positions are exempt from classified civil service coverage in 2 2 Code chapter 341A. 2 3 Currently, counties with a population of more than 100,000 2 4 but not more than 200,000 have two sheriff positions 2 5 classified as second deputy sheriffs. 2 6 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code 2 7 section 25B.3. The bill makes inapplicable Code section 2 8 25B.2, subsection 3, which would relieve a political 2 9 subdivision from complying with a state mandate if funding for 2 10 the cost of the state mandate is not provided or specified. 2 11 Therefore, political subdivisions are required to comply with 2 12 any state mandate included in the bill. 2 13 LSB 6520SV 82 2 14 jm/nh/8