Senate Study Bill 1007 - Introduced SENATE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY BILL BY CHAIRPERSON ZAUN) A BILL FOR An Act allowing county attorneys and assistant county attorneys 1 to obtain a professional permit to carry weapons. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1756XC (3) 88 mo/rh

S.F. _____ Section 1. Section 724.6, Code 2019, is amended to read as 1 follows: 2 724.6 Professional permit to carry weapons. 3 1. a. A person may be issued a permit to carry weapons when 4 the person’s employment in a private investigation business 5 or private security business licensed under chapter 80A , or a 6 person’s employment as a peace officer, correctional officer , 7 county attorney, assistant county attorney , security guard, 8 bank messenger or other person transporting property of a value 9 requiring security, or in police work, reasonably justifies 10 that person going armed. 11 b. The permit shall be on a form prescribed and published by 12 the commissioner of public safety, shall identify the holder, 13 and shall state the nature of the employment requiring the 14 holder to go armed. A permit so issued, other than to a peace 15 officer , county attorney, or assistant county attorney , shall 16 authorize the person to whom it is issued to go armed anywhere 17 in the state, only while engaged in the employment, and while 18 going to and from the place of the employment. 19 c. A permit issued to a certified peace officer , county 20 attorney, or assistant county attorney shall authorize that 21 peace officer , county attorney, or assistant county attorney to 22 go armed anywhere in the state at all times, including on the 23 grounds of a school. 24 d. Permits shall expire twelve months after the date when 25 issued except that permits issued to peace officers , and 26 correctional officers , county attorneys, and assistant county 27 attorneys are valid through the officer’s person’s period of 28 employment unless otherwise canceled. When the employment is 29 terminated, the holder of the permit shall surrender it to the 30 issuing officer for cancellation. 31 2. Notwithstanding subsection 1 , fire fighters, as defined 32 in section 411.1, subsection 10 , airport fire fighters included 33 under section 97B.49B , and emergency medical care providers, 34 as defined in section 147A.1 , county attorneys, as defined in 35 -1- LSB 1756XC (3) 88 mo/rh 1/ 2

S.F. _____ section 331.751, and assistant county attorneys, as defined 1 in section 331.757, shall not, as a condition of employment, 2 be required to obtain a permit under this section . However, 3 the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to a person 4 designated as an arson investigator by the chief fire officer 5 of a political subdivision. 6 EXPLANATION 7 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 8 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 9 Under Code section 724.6, a person may be issued a 10 professional permit to carry weapons when the person’s 11 employment in a private investigation business or private 12 security business, or a person’s employment as a peace officer, 13 correctional officer, security guard, bank messenger or other 14 person transporting property of a value requiring security, or 15 in police work, reasonably justifies that person going armed. 16 This bill amends Code section 724.6 to allow county attorneys 17 and assistant county attorneys to obtain a professional permit 18 to carry weapons. A professional permit to carry weapons 19 issued to a county attorney or assistant county attorney 20 authorizes that person to go armed anywhere in the state at all 21 times, including on the grounds of a school. Permits issued 22 to county attorneys and assistant county attorneys are valid 23 through that person’s period of employment unless otherwise 24 cancelled. The bill provides that county attorneys and 25 assistant county attorneys, as a condition of their employment, 26 shall not be required to obtain a professional permit to carry 27 weapons. 28 -2- LSB 1756XC (3) 88 mo/rh 2/ 2