HF 71 (LSB 2001YH (1) 91)

HOUSE FILE 71

BY  MEGGERS

A BILL FOR

An Act prohibiting quotas for traffic stops by peace officers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 321.492A, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   321.492A  Quotas on for stops and citations prohibited.
   A political subdivision or agency of the state shall not order, mandate, require, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, suggest to a peace officer employed by the political subdivision or agency that the peace officer shall stop a certain number of persons committing an alleged traffic violation or issue a certain number of traffic citations, police citations, memorandums of traffic violations, or memorandums of faulty equipment on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   Current law prohibits a political subdivision or agency of Iowa that employs peace officers from imposing a quota on the number of citations issued by the officers. This bill also prohibits imposing a quota for the number of stops of persons committing alleged traffic violations, regardless of whether a citation or memorandum is issued.