HSB 44 (LSB 1136XD (3) 86)

SENATE/HOUSE FILE _____

BY  (PROPOSED JUDICIAL BRANCH BILL)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the administration of combined guardianship and conservatorship proceedings.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 633.27A, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   633.27A  Docketing guardianship and conservatorship proceedings —— applicability of separate reporting requirements.

   When a petition is filed for a conservatorship or guardianship, or a combined petition as provided in section 633.627, the administration thereof shall be treated as a separate one proceeding, with a separate one docket number, from the date of the filing of the petition.  The separate reporting requirements for conservatorships and guardianships shall continue to apply in a combined petition. The clerk shall clearly indicate on the docket whether the proceedings are voluntary or involuntary and whether a guardianship, a conservatorship, or combined.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   Under current law, the administration of a combined petition for a conservatorship and a guardianship is treated as separate proceedings with separate docket numbers. This bill amends current law so that a combined petition for a conservatorship and a guardianship is treated as one proceeding, with one docket number. The bill also provides that while a combined petition for a conservatorship and a guardianship is administered in the same proceeding, the separate reporting requirements applicable to conservatorships and guardianships each apply.