Senate File 492 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 1232) Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to the Iowa law enforcement academy and minimum 2 entrance requirements. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2423SV 82 5 rh/je/5 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 80B.11, subsection 1, Code 2007, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. Minimum entrance requirements, course of study, 1 4 attendance requirements, and equipment and facilities required 1 5 at approved law enforcement training schools. Minimumage1 6 requirements for entrance to an approved law enforcement 1 7 trainingschoolsschool shall include requirements that a 1 8 person be eighteen years of age and a citizen of the United 1 9 States or an alien who has been lawfully admitted into the 1 10 United States for permanent residence and who intends to 1 11 become a citizen of the United States within eight years of 1 12 commencing employment with a state or local law enforcement 1 13 agency. Minimum course of study requirements shall include a 1 14 separate domestic abuse curriculum, which may include, but is 1 15 not limited to, outside speakers from domestic abuse shelters 1 16 and crime victim assistance organizations. Minimum course of 1 17 study requirements shall also include a sexual assault 1 18 curriculum. 1 19 EXPLANATION 1 20 This bill relates to the Iowa law enforcement academy and 1 21 minimum entrance requirements. 1 22 The bill provides that minimum requirements for entrance to 1 23 an approved law enforcement training school, which include a 1 24 minimum age of 18, shall also include a requirement that a 1 25 person be a citizen of the United States or an alien who has 1 26 been lawfully admitted into the United States for permanent 1 27 residence and who intends to become a citizen of the United 1 28 States within eight years of commencing employment with a 1 29 state or local law enforcement agency. 1 30 LSB 2423SV 82 1 31 rh:rj/je/5