HF 308 (LSB 2037HV (1) 87)

HOUSE FILE 308

BY  COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

(SUCCESSOR TO HF 130)

A BILL FOR

An Act concerning the release of certain military personnel records.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 331.608, subsection 6, paragraph b, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  To a person requesting to examine or copy a record when the event that resulted in the record being made occurred more than seventy-five sixty-two years prior to the request.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill concerns the release of military personnel records maintained by a county recorder under Code section 331.608. The bill allows a person to request a copy of a record that would otherwise be confidential if the event that resulted in the record being made occurred more than 62 years prior to the request. Current law requires the event to have occurred more than 75 years prior to the request.