House Study Bill 51 - Introduced SENATE/HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL) A BILL FOR An Act requiring a person convicted of or receiving a deferred 1 judgment for an aggravated misdemeanor to submit a DNA 2 sample and including effective date provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1176DP (2) 85 jm/rj
S.F. _____ H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 81.2, subsection 1, Code 2013, is amended 1 to read as follows: 2 1. A person who receives a deferred judgment for a felony or 3 aggravated misdemeanor or against whom a judgment or conviction 4 for a felony or aggravated misdemeanor has been entered shall 5 be required to submit a DNA sample for DNA profiling pursuant 6 to section 81.4 . 7 Sec. 2. Section 81.10, subsection 1, Code 2013, is amended 8 to read as follows: 9 1. A defendant who has been convicted of a felony or 10 aggravated misdemeanor and who has not been required to submit 11 a DNA sample for DNA profiling may make a motion to the court 12 for an order to require that DNA analysis be performed on 13 evidence collected in the case for which the person stands 14 convicted. 15 Sec. 3. IMPLEMENTATION OF ACT. Section 25B.2, subsection 16 3, shall not apply to this Act. 17 Sec. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect July 1, 2014. 18 EXPLANATION 19 Current law provides that a person who is convicted of or 20 who receives a deferred judgment for an offense classified as a 21 felony shall submit a DNA sample for DNA profiling. 22 This bill requires a person convicted of or who receives 23 a deferred judgment for an offense that is classified as 24 an aggravated misdemeanor to submit a DNA sample for DNA 25 profiling. 26 The bill allows a defendant convicted of an aggravated 27 misdemeanor and who has not been required to submit a DNA 28 sample to move the court to order DNA profiling of evidence 29 collected in the defendant’s case. 30 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code 31 section 25B.3. The bill makes inapplicable Code section 25B.2, 32 subsection 3, which would relieve a political subdivision from 33 complying with a state mandate if funding for the cost of 34 the state mandate is not provided or specified. Therefore, 35 -1- LSB 1176DP (2) 85 jm/rj 1/ 2
S.F. _____ H.F. _____ political subdivisions are required to comply with any state 1 mandate included in the bill. 2 The bill takes effect July 1, 2014. 3 -2- LSB 1176DP (2) 85 jm/rj 2/ 2