House File 455 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 455 BY COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 77) 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, and 3 including effective date provisions. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 1371HV (1) 89 cm/jh

H.F. 455 Section 1. Section 422.20, subsection 3, paragraph a, Code 1 2021, 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 , 421.59 , 422.72 , and 452A.63 , and 607A.22, this 8 section , or another provision of law, a tax return, return 9 information, or investigative or audit information shall not 10 be divulged to any person or entity, other than the taxpayer, 11 the department, or internal revenue service for use in a matter 12 unrelated to tax administration. 13 Sec. 2. Section 422.72, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code 14 2021, 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 1371HV (1) 89 cm/jh 1/ 4

H.F. 455 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 state 3 court administrator to be used to prepare grand and petit 4 master jury lists. Tax information provided shall be limited 5 to the name, date of birth, last four digits of the social 6 security number, and address of the taxpayer and spouse. 7 The information provided shall not include the financial 8 information of the taxpayer. Each request for tax information 9 shall contain a statement by the state court administrator that 10 the tax information received by the judicial branch shall be 11 used solely to prepare grand and petit master jury lists. This 12 subsection does not prevent the department from authorizing the 13 examination of state returns and state information under the 14 provisions of section 607A.22. 15 (4) This subsection does not prevent the department 16 from authorizing the examination of state returns and state 17 information under the provisions of section 252B.9 . 18 (5) This subsection prevails over any general law of this 19 state relating to public records. 20 Sec. 3. Section 422.72, subsection 3, paragraph a, Code 21 2021, is amended to read as follows: 22 a. Unless otherwise expressly permitted by section 8A.504 , 23 section 8G.4 , section 11.41 , section 96.11, subsection 6 , 24 section 421.17, subsections 22, 23, and 26 , section 421.17, 25 subsection 27 , paragraph “k” , section 421.17, subsection 31 , 26 section 252B.9 , section 321.40, subsection 6 , sections 321.120 , 27 421.19 , 421.28 , 422.20 , and 452A.63 , and 607A.22, this section , 28 or another provision of law, a tax return, return information, 29 or investigative or audit information shall not be divulged to 30 any person or entity, other than the taxpayer, the department, 31 or internal revenue service for use in a matter unrelated to 32 tax administration. 33 Sec. 4. Section 607A.22, Code 2021, is amended by adding the 34 following new subsection: 35 -2- LSB 1371HV (1) 89 cm/jh 2/ 4

H.F. 455 NEW SUBSECTION . 1A. The state court administrator may use 1 taxpayer information provided by the department of revenue as 2 permitted by section 422.72, subsection 1, paragraph “c” , when 3 preparing grand and petit master jury lists. 4 Sec. 5. NEW SECTION . 607A.48 Public access to juror 5 information. 6 Public access to juror and prospective juror information 7 shall be limited. Information on the year of birth and address 8 information identifying the city and zip code of prospective 9 jurors shall be available to the public. However, more 10 specific address information, phone numbers, and the date and 11 month of birth of prospective jurors are confidential and not 12 subject to disclosure without an order of the court. 13 Sec. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect January 1, 14 2023. 15 EXPLANATION 16 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 17 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 18 This bill relates to jurors. Specifically, the bill 19 authorizes the department of revenue to share certain 20 confidential taxpayer personal identification information with 21 the judicial branch for the purpose of compiling jury lists 22 and restricts public release of addresses and dates of birth 23 of prospective jurors. 24 Code section 422.72, concerning the confidentiality of tax 25 information, is amended. The bill authorizes the director of 26 the department of revenue to provide certain tax information 27 to the state court administrator to be used to prepare grand 28 and petit master jury lists. The bill provides that tax 29 information provided are the name, date of birth, last four 30 digits of the social security number, and address of the 31 taxpayer and spouse. The bill provides that the information 32 provided shall not include the financial information of the 33 taxpayer. 34 Code section 607A.22, concerning source lists for preparing 35 -3- LSB 1371HV (1) 89 cm/jh 3/ 4

H.F. 455 grand and petit master jury lists, is amended to authorize the 1 state court administrator to use taxpayer information provided 2 by the department of revenue for this purpose. Code sections 3 422.20 and 422.72, relating to the release of certain taxpayer 4 information by the department of revenue, are amended to 5 authorize the release of information for purposes of allowing 6 the state court administrator to use the department of revenue 7 income taxpayer list. 8 New Code section 607A.48 provides that prospective juror 9 year of birth and city and zip code address information 10 are available to the public but that more specific address 11 information, phone numbers, and date and month of birth are 12 confidential and are not subject to disclosure without an order 13 of the court. 14 The bill takes effect January 1, 2023. 15 -4- LSB 1371HV (1) 89 cm/jh 4/ 4