SENATE FILE 2132

BY  WHITVER

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the mandatory retirement age of an associate juvenile judge or associate probate judge and including effective date and applicability provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 602.1610, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   c.  The mandatory retirement age is seventy-two years for all district associate judges, associate juvenile judges, associate probate judges, and judicial magistrates. However, the mandatory retirement age does not apply to an associate juvenile judge or associate probate judge who is seventy-two years of age or older on July 1, 1996.
    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE AND APPLICABILITY.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2013, and applies mandatory retirement on January 1, 2013, to any associate juvenile judge or associate probate judge who is seventy-two years of age or older on January 1, 2013.
EXPLANATION
   This bill relates to the mandatory retirement age of certain judicial officers.
   The bill strikes a provision exempting an associate juvenile judge or associate probate judge from the mandatory retirement age of 72 years of age if the judge was 72 years of age or older on July 1, 1996.
   The bill takes effect January 1, 2013, and applies mandatory retirement on January 1, 2013, to any associate juvenile judge or associate probate judge who is 72 years of age or older on January 1, 2013.