House Study Bill 26 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY BILL BY CHAIRPERSON BALTIMORE) A BILL FOR An Act relating to the board of parole notifying a crime victim 1 of a parole hearing. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1395YC (3) 86 jm/nh

H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 915.18, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 1 2015, is amended to read as follows: 2 a. Not less than twenty ninety days prior to conducting 3 a hearing at which the board will interview an offender, the 4 board shall notify the victim of the interview and inform 5 the victim that the victim may submit the victim’s opinion 6 concerning the release of the offender in writing prior to the 7 hearing or may appear personally or by counsel at the hearing 8 to express an opinion concerning the offender’s release. 9 EXPLANATION 10 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 11 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 12 This bill relates to the board of parole notifying a crime 13 victim of a parole hearing. The bill requires the board of 14 parole to notify a victim not less than 90 days prior to the 15 parole hearing of the perpetrator of the crime. Current law 16 requires the board of parole to notify a victim not less than 17 20 days prior to such a hearing. 18 -1- LSB 1395YC (3) 86 jm/nh 1/ 1