House File 662 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 662 BY COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 178) (COMPANION TO SF 375 BY COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY) A BILL FOR An Act concerning jurors, relating to access to certain 1 department of revenue taxpayer information for jury list 2 compilation and juror information confidentiality. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1267HV (1) 88 ec/jh

H.F. 662 Section 1. Section 422.20, subsection 3, paragraph a, Code 1 2019, is amended to read as follows: 2 a. Unless otherwise expressly permitted by section 8A.504 , 3 section 8G.4 , section 11.41 , section 96.11, subsection 6 , 4 section 421.17, subsections 22, 23, and 26 , section 421.17, 5 subsection 27 , paragraph “k” , section 421.17, subsection 31 , 6 section 252B.9 , section 321.40, subsection 6 , sections 321.120 , 7 421.19 , 421.28 , 422.72 , and 452A.63 , and 607A.22, this section , 8 or another provision of law, a tax return, return information, 9 or investigative or audit information shall not be divulged to 10 any person or entity, other than the taxpayer, the department, 11 or internal revenue service for use in a matter unrelated to 12 tax administration. 13 Sec. 2. Section 422.72, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code 14 2019, is amended to read as follows: 15 c. (1) The Except as explicitly provided in this section, 16 the department shall not authorize the examination of tax 17 information by officers and employees of this state, another 18 state, or of the United States if the officers or employees 19 would otherwise be required to obtain a judicial order to 20 examine the information if it were to be obtained from another 21 source, and if the purpose of the examination is other than for 22 tax administration. However, the 23 (2) The director may provide sample individual income 24 tax information to be used for statistical purposes to the 25 legislative services agency. The information shall not 26 include the name or mailing address of the taxpayer or the 27 taxpayer’s social security number. Any information contained 28 in an individual income tax return which is provided by the 29 director shall only be used as a part of a database which 30 contains similar information from a number of returns. The 31 legislative services agency shall not have access to the income 32 tax returns of individuals. Each request for individual income 33 tax information shall contain a statement by the director of 34 the legislative services agency that the individual income tax 35 -1- LSB 1267HV (1) 88 ec/jh 1/ 4

H.F. 662 information received by the legislative services agency shall 1 be used solely for statistical purposes. 2 (3) The director may provide tax information to the 3 state court administrator to be used to prepare grand and 4 petit master jury lists. Tax information provided shall be 5 limited to the name, social security number, and address of 6 the taxpayer and spouse. The information provided shall not 7 include the financial information of the taxpayer. Each 8 request for tax information shall contain a statement by the 9 state court administrator that the tax information received by 10 the judicial branch shall be used solely to prepare grand and 11 petit master jury lists. This subsection does not prevent the 12 department from authorizing the examination of state returns 13 and state information under the provisions of section 607A.22. 14 (4) This subsection does not prevent the department 15 from authorizing the examination of state returns and state 16 information under the provisions of section 252B.9 . 17 (5) This subsection prevails over any general law of this 18 state relating to public records. 19 Sec. 3. Section 422.72, subsection 3, paragraph a, Code 20 2019, is amended to read as follows: 21 a. Unless otherwise expressly permitted by section 8A.504 , 22 section 8G.4 , section 11.41 , section 96.11, subsection 6 , 23 section 421.17, subsections 22, 23, and 26 , section 421.17, 24 subsection 27 , paragraph “k” , section 421.17, subsection 31 , 25 section 252B.9 , section 321.40, subsection 6 , sections 321.120 , 26 421.19 , 421.28 , 422.20 , and 452A.63 , and 607A.22, this section , 27 or another provision of law, a tax return, return information, 28 or investigative or audit information shall not be divulged to 29 any person or entity, other than the taxpayer, the department, 30 or internal revenue service for use in a matter unrelated to 31 tax administration. 32 Sec. 4. Section 607A.22, Code 2019, is amended by adding the 33 following new subsection: 34 NEW SUBSECTION . 1A. The state court administrator may use 35 -2- LSB 1267HV (1) 88 ec/jh 2/ 4

H.F. 662 taxpayer information provided by the department of revenue as 1 permitted by section 422.72, subsection 1, paragraph “c” , when 2 preparing grand and petit master jury lists. 3 Sec. 5. NEW SECTION . 607A.48 Public access to juror 4 information. 5 Public access to juror and prospective juror information 6 shall be limited. Information on the year of birth and address 7 information identifying the city and zip code of prospective 8 jurors shall be available to the public. However, more 9 specific address information, phone numbers, and the date and 10 month of birth of prospective jurors are confidential and not 11 subject to disclosure without an order of the court. 12 EXPLANATION 13 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 14 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 15 This bill relates to jurors. Specifically, the bill 16 authorizes the department of revenue to share certain 17 confidential taxpayer personal identification information with 18 the judicial branch for the purpose of compiling jury lists 19 and restricts public release of addresses and dates of birth 20 of prospective jurors. 21 Code section 422.72, concerning the confidentiality of tax 22 information, is amended. The bill authorizes the director of 23 the department of revenue to provide certain tax information 24 to the state court administrator to be used to prepare grand 25 and petit master jury lists. The bill provides that tax 26 information provided are the name, social security number, 27 and address of the taxpayer and spouse. The bill provides 28 that the information provided shall not include the financial 29 information of the taxpayer. 30 Code section 607A.22, concerning source lists for preparing 31 grand and petit master jury lists, is amended to authorize the 32 state court administrator to use taxpayer information provided 33 by the department of revenue for this purpose. Code sections 34 422.20 and 422.72, relating to the release of certain taxpayer 35 -3- LSB 1267HV (1) 88 ec/jh 3/ 4

H.F. 662 information by the department of revenue, are amended to 1 authorize the release of information for purposes of allowing 2 the state court administrator to use the department of revenue 3 income taxpayer list. 4 New Code section 607A.48 provides that prospective juror 5 year of birth and city and zip code address information 6 are available to the public but that more specific address 7 information, phone numbers, and date and month of birth are 8 confidential and are not subject to disclosure without an order 9 of the court. 10 -4- LSB 1267HV (1) 88 ec/jh 4/ 4