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Senate File 562 - EnrolledAn Actrelating to and making appropriations to the justice
system, including by providing for payments associated
with indigent defense and representation, the funding
of activities relating to consumer fraud and antitrust,
a corrections capital reinvestment fund, an Iowa law
enforcement academy study, a human trafficking study, and
the funding of peace officer retirement, and including
effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
DIVISION I
FY 2023-2024 APPROPRIATIONS
Section 1. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
to the department of justice for the fiscal year beginning July
1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following amounts, or
so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
designated:
a. For the general office of attorney general for
salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes,
including the prosecuting attorneys training program, matching
funds for federal violence against women grant programs,
victim assistance grants, the office of drug control policy
prosecuting attorney program, and odometer fraud enforcement,
and for not more than the following full-time equivalent
positions:
.................................................. $7,749,860
............................................... FTEs228.00
As a condition of receiving the appropriation provided
in this lettered paragraph, the department of justice shall
maintain a record of the estimated time incurred representing
each agency or department.
The general office of attorney general may temporarily
exceed and draw more than the amount appropriated in this
lettered paragraph and incur a negative cash balance as long
as there are receivables equal to or greater than the negative
balances and the amount appropriated in this lettered paragraph
is not exceeded at the close of the fiscal year.
b. For victim assistance grants:
.................................................. $5,016,708
The moneys appropriated in this lettered paragraph shall be
used to provide grants to care providers providing services to
crime victims of domestic abuse or to crime victims of rape and
sexual assault.
The balance of the victim compensation fund established
-1-in section 915.94 may be used to provide salary and support
of not more than 24.00 full-time equivalent positions and to
provide maintenance for the victim compensation functions
of the department of justice. In addition to the full-time
equivalent positions authorized pursuant to this paragraph,
7.00 full-time equivalent positions are authorized and shall
be used by the department of justice to employ one accountant
and four program planners. The department of justice may
employ the additional 7.00 full-time equivalent positions
authorized pursuant to this paragraph that are in excess of the
number of full-time equivalent positions authorized only if
the department of justice receives sufficient federal moneys
to maintain employment for the additional full-time equivalent
positions during the current fiscal year. The department
of justice shall only employ the additional 7.00 full-time
equivalent positions in succeeding fiscal years if sufficient
federal moneys are received during each of those succeeding
fiscal years.
The department of justice shall transfer at least $150,000
from the victim compensation fund established in section 915.94
to the victim assistance grant program established in section
13.31.
Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this
lettered paragraph that remain unencumbered or unobligated at
the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain
available for expenditure for the purposes designated until the
close of the succeeding fiscal year.
c. For legal services for persons in poverty grants as
provided in section 13.34:
.................................................. $2,634,601
d. To improve the department of justice’s cybersecurity and
technology infrastructure:
.................................................. $202,060
2. a. The department of justice, in submitting budget
estimates for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, pursuant
-2-to section 8.23, shall include a report of funding from sources
other than amounts appropriated directly from the general fund
of the state to the department of justice or to the office of
consumer advocate. These funding sources shall include but
are not limited to reimbursements from other state agencies,
commissions, boards, or similar entities, and reimbursements
from special funds or internal accounts within the department
of justice. The department of justice shall also report actual
reimbursements for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022,
and actual and expected reimbursements for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2023.
b. The department of justice shall include the report
required under paragraph “a”, as well as information regarding
any revisions occurring as a result of reimbursements actually
received or expected at a later date, in a report to the
general assembly. The department of justice shall submit the
report on or before January 15, 2024.
3. a. The department of justice shall fully reimburse
the costs and necessary related expenses incurred by the Iowa
law enforcement academy to continue to employ one additional
instructor position who shall provide training for human
trafficking-related issues throughout the state.
b. The department of justice shall obtain the moneys
necessary to reimburse the Iowa law enforcement academy to
employ such an instructor from unrestricted moneys from either
the victim compensation fund established in section 915.94 or
the human trafficking victim fund established in section 915.95
or the human trafficking enforcement fund established in 2015
Iowa Acts, chapter 138, section 141.
Sec. 2. OFFICE OF CONSUMER ADVOCATE. There is appropriated
from the commerce revolving fund created in section 546.12, as
amended by 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 514, to the office of
consumer advocate of the department of justice for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the
following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
-3-used for the purposes designated:
For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, and for not more than the following full-time
equivalent positions:
.................................................. $3,378,093
............................................... FTEs18.00
The office of consumer advocate shall include in its charges
assessed or revenues generated an amount sufficient to cover
the amount stated in its appropriation and any state-assessed
indirect costs determined by the department of administrative
services.
Sec. 3. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS — FACILITIES.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
to the department of corrections for the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following amounts,
or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
designated:
a. For the operation of the Fort Madison correctional
facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $44,192,771
b. For the operation of the Anamosa correctional facility,
including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes:
.................................................. $37,022,808
c. For the operation of the Oakdale correctional facility,
including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes:
.................................................. $56,368,832
d. For the Oakdale correctional facility for
department-wide institutional pharmaceuticals and miscellaneous
purposes:
.................................................. $9,550,417
e. For the operation of the Newton correctional facility,
including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
-4-purposes:
.................................................. $30,437,665
f. For the operation of the Mount Pleasant correctional
facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $28,642,429
g. For the operation of the Rockwell City correctional
facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $11,090,142
h. For the operation of the Clarinda correctional facility,
including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes:
.................................................. $27,355,684
Moneys received by the department of corrections as
reimbursement for services provided to the Clarinda youth
corporation are appropriated to the department and shall be
used for the purpose of operating the Clarinda correctional
facility.
i. For the operation of the Mitchellville correctional
facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $24,946,721
j. For the operation of the Fort Dodge correctional
facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $32,742,479
k. For reimbursement of counties for temporary confinement
of prisoners, as provided in sections 901.7, 904.908, and
906.17, and for offenders confined pursuant to section 904.513:
.................................................. $1,195,319
l. For federal prison reimbursement, reimbursements for
out-of-state placements, and miscellaneous contracts:
.................................................. $234,411
2. The department of corrections shall use moneys
-5-appropriated in subsection 1 to continue to contract for the
services of a Muslim imam and a Native American spiritual
leader.
Sec. 4. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS — ADMINISTRATION.
There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the
department of corrections for the fiscal year beginning July
1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following amounts, or
so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
designated:
1. For general administration, including salaries and the
adjustment of salaries throughout the department, support,
maintenance, employment of an education director to administer
a centralized education program for the correctional system,
and miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $6,313,331
a. It is the intent of the general assembly that each
lease negotiated by the department of corrections with a
private corporation for the purpose of providing private
industry employment of inmates in a correctional institution
shall prohibit the private corporation from utilizing inmate
labor for partisan political purposes for any person seeking
election to public office in this state and that a violation
of this requirement shall result in a termination of the lease
agreement.
b. It is the intent of the general assembly that as a
condition of receiving the appropriation provided in this
subsection the department of corrections shall not enter into
a lease or contractual agreement pursuant to section 904.809
with a private corporation for the use of building space for
the purpose of providing inmate employment without providing
that the terms of the lease or contract establish safeguards to
restrict, to the greatest extent feasible, access by inmates
working for the private corporation to personal identifying
information of citizens.
2. For educational programs for inmates at state penal
-6-institutions:
.................................................. $2,608,109
a. To maximize the funding for educational programs,
the department shall establish guidelines and procedures to
prioritize the availability of educational and vocational
training for inmates based upon the goal of facilitating an
inmate’s successful release from the correctional institution.
b. The director of the department of corrections may
transfer moneys from Iowa prison industries and the canteen
operating funds established pursuant to section 904.310, for
use in educational programs for inmates.
c. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in
this subsection that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the
close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain
available to be used only for the purposes designated in this
subsection until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.
3. For the development and operation of the Iowa corrections
offender network (ICON) data system:
.................................................. $2,000,000
4. For offender mental health and substance abuse
treatment:
.................................................. $28,065
5. For department-wide duties, including operations, costs,
and miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $12,974,108
Sec. 5. JUDICIAL DISTRICT DEPARTMENTS OF CORRECTIONAL
SERVICES.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
to the department of corrections for the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, for salaries, support,
maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, the following amounts,
or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
designated:
a. For the first judicial district department of
correctional services:
-7-.................................................. $16,207,339
It is the intent of the general assembly that the first
judicial district department of correctional services maintains
the drug courts operated by the district department.
b. For the second judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $12,789,649
It is the intent of the general assembly that the second
judicial district department of correctional services maintains
two drug courts to be operated by the district department.
c. For the third judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $7,710,790
d. For the fourth judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $6,193,805
e. For the fifth judicial district department of
correctional services, including funding for electronic
monitoring devices for use on a statewide basis:
.................................................. $23,440,024
It is the intent of the general assembly that the fifth
judicial district department of correctional services maintains
the drug court operated by the district department.
f. For the sixth judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $16,755,370
It is the intent of the general assembly that the sixth
judicial district department of correctional services maintains
the drug court operated by the district department.
g. For the seventh judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $10,362,851
It is the intent of the general assembly that the seventh
judicial district department of correctional services maintains
the drug court operated by the district department.
-8- h. For the eighth judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $9,238,778
2. Each judicial district department of correctional
services, within the moneys available, shall continue programs
and plans established within that district to provide for
intensive supervision, sex offender treatment, diversion of
low-risk offenders to the least restrictive sanction available,
job development, and expanded use of intermediate criminal
sanctions.
3. Each judicial district department of correctional
services shall provide alternatives to prison consistent with
chapter 901B. The alternatives to prison shall ensure public
safety while providing maximum rehabilitation to the offender.
A judicial district department of correctional services may
also establish a day program.
4. The office of drug control policy of the department
of public safety shall consider federal grants made to the
department of corrections for the benefit of each of the eight
judicial district departments of correctional services as local
government grants, as defined pursuant to federal regulations.
5. The department of corrections shall continue to contract
with a judicial district department of correctional services to
provide for the rental of electronic monitoring equipment which
shall be available statewide.
6. The public safety assessment shall not be utilized in
pretrial hearings when determining whether to detain or release
a defendant before trial until such time the use of the public
safety assessment has been specifically authorized by the
general assembly.
Sec. 6. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS — REALLOCATION OF
APPROPRIATIONS. Notwithstanding section 8.39, within the
moneys appropriated in this division of this Act to the
department of corrections, the department may reallocate the
moneys appropriated and allocated as necessary to best fulfill
-9-the needs of the correctional institutions, administration
of the department, and the judicial district departments of
correctional services. However, in addition to complying with
the requirements of sections 904.116 and 905.8 and providing
notice to the legislative services agency, the department
of corrections shall also provide notice to the department
of management, prior to the effective date of the revision
or reallocation of an appropriation made pursuant to this
section. The department of corrections shall not reallocate an
appropriation or allocation for the purpose of eliminating any
program.
Sec. 7. INTENT — REPORTS.
1. The department of corrections, in cooperation with
townships, the Iowa cemetery associations, and other nonprofit
or governmental entities, may use inmate labor during the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, to restore or preserve
rural cemeteries and historical landmarks. The department, in
cooperation with the counties, may also use inmate labor to
clean up roads, major water sources, and other water sources
around the state.
2. By January 15, 2024, the department shall provide an
annual status report regarding private-sector employment to
the general assembly. The report shall include the number
of offenders employed in the private sector, the combined
number of hours worked by the offenders, the total amount of
allowances, and the distribution of allowances pursuant to
section 904.702, including any moneys deposited in the general
fund of the state.
Sec. 8. ELECTRONIC MONITORING REPORT. The department of
corrections shall submit a report on electronic monitoring
to the general assembly by January 15, 2024. The report
shall specifically address the number of persons being
electronically monitored and break down the number of persons
being electronically monitored by offense committed. The
report shall also include a comparison of any data from the
-10-prior fiscal year with the current fiscal year.
Sec. 9. STATE AGENCY PURCHASES FROM PRISON INDUSTRIES.
1. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise
requires, “state agency” means the government of the state
of Iowa, including but not limited to all executive branch
departments, agencies, boards, bureaus, and commissions, the
judicial branch, the general assembly and all legislative
agencies, institutions within the purview of the state board of
regents, and any corporation whose primary function is to act
as an instrumentality of the state.
2. State agencies are encouraged to purchase products from
Iowa state industries, as defined in section 904.802, when
purchases are required and the products are available from
Iowa state industries. State agencies shall obtain bids from
Iowa state industries for purchases of office furniture during
the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, exceeding $5,000 or
in accordance with applicable administrative rules related to
purchases for the agency.
Sec. 10. IOWA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the
state to the Iowa law enforcement academy for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following
amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the
purposes designated:
a. For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, including jailer training and technical assistance,
and for not more than the following full-time equivalent
positions:
.................................................. $1,238,504
............................................... FTEs30.25
b. The Iowa law enforcement academy may temporarily exceed
and draw more than the amount appropriated in this subsection
and incur a negative cash balance as long as there are
receivables equal to or greater than the negative balance and
the amount appropriated in this subsection is not exceeded at
-11-the close of the fiscal year.
2. The Iowa law enforcement academy may select at least
five automobiles of the department of public safety, division
of state patrol, prior to turning over the automobiles to
the department of administrative services to be disposed
of by public auction, and the Iowa law enforcement academy
may exchange any automobile owned by the academy for each
automobile selected if the selected automobile is used in
training law enforcement officers at the academy. However, any
automobile exchanged by the academy shall be substituted for
the selected vehicle of the department of public safety and
sold by public auction with the receipts being deposited in the
depreciation fund maintained pursuant to section 8A.365 to the
credit of the department of public safety, division of state
patrol.
3. The Iowa law enforcement academy shall provide training
for domestic abuse and human trafficking-related issues
throughout the state. The training shall be offered at no
cost to the attendees and the training shall not replace any
existing domestic abuse or human trafficking training offered
by the academy.
Sec. 11. STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
to the office of the state public defender of the department
of inspections, appeals, and licensing for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following
amounts, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the
purposes designated:
a. For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, and for not more than the following full-time
equivalent positions:
.................................................. $30,718,203
............................................... FTEs241.00
b. For payments on behalf of eligible adults and juveniles
from the indigent defense fund, in accordance with section
-12-815.11:
.................................................. $44,046,374
2. Moneys received by the office of the state public
defender pursuant to Tit.IV-E of the federal Social Security
Act remaining unencumbered and unobligated at the end of the
fiscal year shall not revert but shall be transferred to the
Tit.IV-E juvenile justice improvement fund created in 2022
Iowa Acts, chapter 1146, section 11, subsection 3, to remain
available for expenditure by the office of the state public
defender in succeeding fiscal years for the purposes allowed by
Tit.IV-E of the federal Social Security Act.
Sec. 12. BOARD OF PAROLE. There is appropriated from the
general fund of the state to the board of parole for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the
following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
used for the purposes designated:
For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, and for not more than the following full-time
equivalent positions:
.................................................. $1,517,894
............................................... FTEs11.00
Sec. 13. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC DEFENSE.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the
state to the department of public defense, for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following
amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the
purposes designated:
For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, and for not more than the following full-time
equivalent positions:
.................................................. $6,963,037
............................................... FTEs248.00
2. The department of public defense may temporarily exceed
and draw more than the amount appropriated in this section and
incur a negative cash balance as long as there are receivables
-13-of federal funds equal to or greater than the negative balance
and the amount appropriated in this section is not exceeded at
the close of the fiscal year.
Sec. 14. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
to the department of homeland security and emergency management
for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30,
2024, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary,
to be used for the purposes designated:
For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, and for not more than the following full-time
equivalent positions:
.................................................. $2,439,389
............................................... FTEs25.44
2. The department of homeland security and emergency
management may temporarily exceed and draw more than the amount
appropriated in this section and incur a negative cash balance
as long as there are receivables of federal funds equal to or
greater than the negative balance and the amount appropriated
in this section is not exceeded at the close of the fiscal
year.
Sec. 15. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. There is appropriated
from the general fund of the state to the department of public
safety for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending
June 30, 2024, the following amounts, or so much thereof as is
necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
1. For administrative functions, including salaries and the
adjustment of salaries throughout the department, the criminal
justice information system, and for not more than the following
full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $5,920,476
............................................... FTEs47.00
2. For the division of criminal investigation, including
the state’s contribution to the peace officers’ retirement,
-14-accident, and disability system provided in chapter 97A in the
amount of the state’s normal contribution rate, as defined in
section 97A.8, multiplied by the salaries for which the moneys
are appropriated, to meet federal fund matching requirements,
and for not more than the following full-time equivalent
positions:
.................................................. $19,712,633
............................................... FTEs180.00
3. For the criminalistics laboratory fund created in
section 691.9:
.................................................. $650,000
Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this
subsection that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close
of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available
for expenditure for the purposes designated until the close of
the succeeding fiscal year.
4. a. For the division of narcotics enforcement, including
the state’s contribution to the peace officers’ retirement,
accident, and disability system provided in chapter 97A in the
amount of the state’s normal contribution rate, as defined in
section 97A.8, multiplied by the salaries for which the moneys
are appropriated, to meet federal fund matching requirements,
and for not more than the following full-time equivalent
positions:
.................................................. $8,613,894
............................................... FTEs67.00
The division of narcotics enforcement is authorized an
additional 1.00 full-time equivalent position pursuant to
this lettered paragraph that is in excess of the number of
full-time equivalent positions authorized for the previous
fiscal year only if the division of narcotics enforcement
receives sufficient federal moneys to maintain employment
for the additional full-time equivalent position during the
current fiscal year. The division of narcotics enforcement
shall only employ the additional full-time equivalent position
-15-in succeeding fiscal years if sufficient federal moneys are
received during each of those succeeding fiscal years.
b. For the division of narcotics enforcement for undercover
purchases:
.................................................. $209,042
5. For the division of state fire marshal, for fire
protection services as provided through the state fire service
and emergency response council as created in the department,
and for the state’s contribution to the peace officers’
retirement, accident, and disability system provided in chapter
97A in the amount of the state’s normal contribution rate,
as defined in section 97A.8, multiplied by the salaries for
which the moneys are appropriated, and for not more than the
following full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $3,230,743
............................................... FTEs21.00
6. For the division of state patrol, for salaries, support,
maintenance, workers’ compensation costs, and miscellaneous
purposes, including the state’s contribution to the peace
officers’ retirement, accident, and disability system provided
in chapter 97A in the amount of the state’s normal contribution
rate, as defined in section 97A.8, multiplied by the salaries
for which the moneys are appropriated, and for not more than
the following full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $87,066,931
............................................... FTEs613.00
It is the intent of the general assembly that members of the
state patrol be assigned to patrol the highways and roads in
lieu of assignments for inspecting school buses for the school
districts.
7. For deposit in the sick leave benefits fund established
in section 80.42 for all departmental employees eligible to
receive benefits for accrued sick leave under the collective
bargaining agreement:
.................................................. $279,517
-16- 8. For costs associated with the training and equipment
needs of volunteer fire fighters:
.................................................. $1,075,520
Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this
subsection that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close
of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available
for expenditure for the purposes designated in this subsection
until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.
9. For the public safety interoperable and broadband
communications fund established in section 80.44:
.................................................. $115,661
10. For the office to combat human trafficking established
pursuant to section 80.45, including salaries, support,
maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than
the following full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $200,742
............................................... FTEs2.00
11. For department-wide duties, including operations,
costs, and miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $6,456,270
12. For deposit in the public safety equipment fund
established in section 80.48 for the purchase, maintenance, and
replacement of equipment used by the department:
.................................................. $2,500,000
13. For the office of drug control policy, for salaries,
support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, including
statewide coordination of the drug abuse resistance education
(D.A.R.E) programs or other similar programs, and for not more
than the following full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $249,219
............................................... FTEs4.00
Notwithstanding section 8.39, the department of public
safety may reallocate moneys appropriated in this section
as necessary to best fulfill the needs provided for in the
appropriation. However, the department shall not reallocate
-17-moneys appropriated to the department in this section unless
notice of the reallocation is given to the legislative services
agency and the department of management prior to the effective
date of the reallocation. The notice shall include information
regarding the rationale for reallocating the moneys. The
department shall not reallocate moneys appropriated in this
section for the purpose of eliminating any program.
Sec. 16. GAMING ENFORCEMENT.
1. There is appropriated from the gaming enforcement
revolving fund created in section 80.43 to the department of
public safety for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and
ending June 30, 2024, the following amount, or so much thereof
as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
For any direct support costs for agents and officers of
the division of criminal investigation’s excursion gambling
boat, gambling structure, and racetrack enclosure enforcement
activities, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following
full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $10,778,483
............................................... FTEs65.00
2. For each additional license to conduct gambling games on
an excursion gambling boat, gambling structure, or racetrack
enclosure issued during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023,
there is appropriated from the gaming enforcement revolving
fund to the department of public safety for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, an additional
amount of not more than $300,000 to be used for full-time
equivalent positions.
3. The department of public safety, with the approval of the
department of management, may employ no more than three special
agents for each additional riverboat or gambling structure
regulated after July 1, 2024, and three special agents for
each racing facility which becomes operational during the
fiscal year which begins July 1, 2024. Positions authorized
-18-in this subsection are in addition to the full-time equivalent
positions otherwise authorized in this section.
Sec. 17. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. There is appropriated from the 911 emergency
communications fund created in section 34A.7A to the department
of homeland security and emergency management for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the
following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
used for the purposes designated:
For implementation, support, and maintenance of the
functions of the administrator and program manager under
chapter 34A and to employ the auditor of the state to perform
an annual audit of the 911 emergency communications fund:
.................................................. $300,000
Sec. 18. CONSUMER EDUCATION AND LITIGATION — FARM
MEDIATION AND PROSECUTIONS, APPEALS, AND CLAIMS.
Notwithstanding section 714.16C, there is appropriated from the
consumer education and litigation fund to the department of
justice for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending
June 30, 2024, the following amounts, or so much thereof as is
necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
1. For farm mediation services as specified in section
13.13, subsection 2:
.................................................. $300,000
2. For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes for criminal prosecutions, criminal appeals, and
performing duties pursuant to chapter 669:
.................................................. $2,000,000
DIVISION II
INDIGENT DEFENSE and representation
Sec. 19. Section 815.7, subsections 6 and 7, Code 2023, are
amended to read as follows:
6. For appointments made on or after July 1, 2021, through
June 30, 2022, the reasonable compensation shall be calculated
on the basis of seventy-six dollars per hour for class “A”
-19-felonies, seventy-one dollars per hour for class “B” felonies,
and sixty-six dollars per hour for all other cases.
7. For appointments made on or after July 1, 2022, through
June 30, 2023, the reasonable compensation shall be calculated
on the basis of seventy-eight dollars per hour for class
“A” felonies, seventy-three dollars per hour for class “B”
felonies, and sixty-eight dollars per hour for all other cases.
Sec. 20. Section 815.7, Code 2023, is amended by adding the
following new subsection:
NEW SUBSECTION. 7A. For appointments made on or after July
1, 2023, the reasonable compensation shall be calculated on the
basis of eighty-three dollars per hour for class “A” felonies,
seventy-eight dollars per hour for class “B” felonies, and
seventy-three dollars per hour for all other cases.
Sec. 21. NEW SECTION. 815.7A Travel time for attorney or
guardian ad litem.
1. Compensation for time spent by an attorney or guardian
ad litem traveling outside of the attorney’s or guardian ad
litem’s county of domicile is payable when the travel is
reasonable and necessary to represent the indigent client and
shall be calculated at a rate of thirty-five dollars per hour.
Compensation for travel for a court proceeding other than a
trial or other contested proceeding shall only be paid if the
attorney or guardian ad litem files a motion for a remote
hearing and the motion is denied. This section does not affect
any allowable compensation for time spent traveling already
compensated pursuant to any other applicable provision of law.
2. Compensation for travel for an arraignment, pretrial
conference, scheduling conference, or any other uncontested or
nontestimonial judicial proceeding, for which a request for a
remote hearing was denied, paid to the attorney or guardian ad
litem from the indigent defense fund created in section 815.11
shall be reimbursed by the judicial branch.
3. For purposes of this section, “county of domicile” means
the address the attorney or guardian ad litem has on file with
-20-the office of the state public defender.
DIVISION III
ATTORNEY GENERAL — ANTITRUST FUND — CONSUMER EDUCATION AND
LITIGATION FUND
Sec. 22. 2014 Iowa Acts, chapter 1138, section 21, as
amended by 2016 Iowa Acts, chapter 1137, section 18, 2017 Iowa
Acts, chapter 167, section 24, 2019 Iowa Acts, chapter 163,
section 26, and 2021 Iowa Acts, chapter 166, section 23, is
amended to read as follows:
SEC. 21. CONSUMER EDUCATION AND LITIGATION
FUND. Notwithstanding section 714.16C, for each fiscal
year of the period beginning July 1, 2014, and ending June
30, 2023 2025, the annual appropriations in section 714.16C,
are increased from $1,125,000 to $1,875,000, and $75,000 to
$125,000 respectively.
Sec. 23. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LITIGATION
FUNDS. Notwithstanding sections 553.19 and 714.16C,
for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June
30, 2023, and beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30,
2024, any moneys not otherwise appropriated from the antitrust
fund created in section 553.19 and the consumer education and
litigation fund created in section 714.16C are appropriated to
the department of justice for salaries, support, maintenance,
and miscellaneous purposes necessary to perform the duties
described in section 13.2.
Sec. 24. EFFECTIVE DATE. The following, being deemed of
immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment:
The section of this division of this Act regarding the use of
moneys not otherwise appropriated from the antitrust fund and
the consumer education and litigation fund.
Sec. 25. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. The following applies
retroactively to July 1, 2022:
The section of this division of this Act regarding the use of
moneys not otherwise appropriated from the antitrust fund and
the consumer education and litigation fund.
-21-DIVISION IV
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Sec. 26. Section 904.317, Code 2023, is amended to read as
follows:
904.317 Director may buy and sell real estate — options.
1. The director, subject to the approval of the board, may
secure options to purchase real estate and acquire and sell
real estate for the proper uses of the institutions. Real
estate shall be acquired and sold upon terms and conditions
the director recommends subject to the approval of the board.
Upon sale of the real estate, the proceeds shall be deposited
with the treasurer of state and credited to the general fund
of the state in a corrections capital reinvestment fund, which
is established in the state treasury under the purview of
the department. There is appropriated from the general fund
of the state to the department a sum equal to the proceeds,
so deposited and credited to the general fund of the state
which may be used to purchase other real estate or for capital
improvements upon property under the director’s supervision.
Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the fund that remain
unencumbered or unobligated at the close of a fiscal year shall
not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the
purposes designated. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection
2, interest or earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited
to the fund.
2. The costs incident to the securing of options and
acquisition and sale of real estate including, but not limited
to, appraisals, invitations for offers, abstracts, and other
necessary costs, may be paid from moneys appropriated for
support and maintenance to the institution at which the real
estate is located. The fund funding source for these costs
shall be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale.
Sec. 27. TRANSFER. Moneys remaining in the general
fund of the state on June 30, 2023, from the sale of real
estate pursuant to section 904.317, that are available to the
-22-department of corrections are transferred to the corrections
capital reinvestment fund established in section 904.317, as
amended in this division of this Act.
Sec. 28. EFFECTIVE DATE. This division of this Act takes
effect June 30, 2023.
DIVISION V
IOWA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY study
Sec. 29. IOWA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY INTERIM STUDY
COMMITTEE.
1. The legislative council is requested to establish an Iowa
law enforcement academy interim study committee to do all of
the following:
a. Review and evaluate minimum entrance requirements, the
course of study, attendance requirements, and the sufficiency
of current equipment and facilities.
b. Review and evaluate minimum basic training requirements.
c. Review and evaluate minimum standards of physical,
mental, educational, and moral fitness.
d. Consider additional locations for law enforcement
training schools and current and future facility needs.
2. The committee shall include all of the following members:
a. Ten members of the general assembly, including five
members of the senate, three of whom shall be appointed by
the majority leader of the senate and two of whom shall be
appointed by the minority leader of the senate, and five
members of the house of representatives, three of whom shall be
appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and
two of whom shall be appointed by the minority leader of the
house of representatives.
b. The director of the Iowa law enforcement academy or the
director’s designee.
c. A member of the Iowa law enforcement academy council.
d. A sheriff of a county with a population of fifty thousand
or more who is a member of the Iowa state sheriffs and deputies
association.
-23- e. A sheriff of a county with a population of less than
fifty thousand who is a member of the Iowa state sheriffs and
deputies association.
f. A police chief of a city with a population of fifty
thousand or more who is a member of the Iowa police chiefs
association.
g. A police chief of a city with a population of less
than fifty thousand who is a member of the Iowa police chiefs
association.
h. A police officer who is a member of a police department
of a city with a population of fifty thousand or more who is a
member of the Iowa peace officers association.
i. A police officer who is a member of a police department
of a city with a population of less than fifty thousand who is a
member of the Iowa peace officers association.
j. The commissioner of the department of public safety or
the commissioner’s designee.
k. A member of the Iowa county attorneys association.
l. The attorney general or the attorney general’s designee.
m. The governor or the governor’s designee.
3. Members of the committee other than members of the
general assembly shall be nonvoting members.
4. The committee shall issue a report, including findings
and recommendations, to the governor and the general assembly
no later than December 15, 2023.
DIVISION VI
HUMAN TRAFFICKING STUDY
Sec. 30. HUMAN TRAFFICKING INTERIM STUDY COMMITTEE.
1. The legislative council is requested to establish a human
trafficking interim study committee to do all of the following:
a. Identify current initiatives to eliminate the human
trafficking of minors in the state.
b. Identify current services available in the state for
minor victims of human trafficking.
c. Identify and investigate the laws of other states that
-24-focus on minor victims of human trafficking, concentrating on
those states that border Iowa, to determine if another state’s
model would be effective in Iowa. Recommendations shall
include funding needs for any services or programs.
d. Research and recommend a model of rehabilitative
services for minor victims of human trafficking that includes
input from law enforcement, social services organizations, the
judicial system, and mental health professionals.
e. Identify barriers that prevent minor victims of human
trafficking from seeking legal assistance or medical attention.
f. Create a procedure to be followed by all law enforcement
officers statewide if a law enforcement officer encounters a
minor who may be a victim of human trafficking.
g. Investigate the efficacy of safe harbor laws.
h. Investigate and identify potential routes to eliminate
human trafficking of minors in the state.
i. Make recommendations on appropriate human
trafficking-related training for law enforcement officers,
county attorneys, and juvenile service officers.
j. Identify funding needs based upon recommendations made
by the committee.
2. The committee shall include all of the following members:
a. Three members of the senate, two of whom shall be
appointed by the majority leader of the senate, and one of whom
shall be appointed by the minority leader of the senate.
b. Three members of the house of representatives, two
of whom shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of
representatives, and one of whom shall be appointed by the
minority leader of the house of representatives.
c. A representative of the department of public safety.
d. A representative of the office to combat human
trafficking.
e. A representative of the attorney general’s office.
f. A representative of the department of health and human
services.
-25- g. A representative of juvenile court services.
h. The chief of police or head law enforcement official of
a city in this state with a population of two hundred thousand
or more as determined by the most recent population estimates
issued by the United States bureau of census.
i. The chief of police or head law enforcement official of
a city in this state with a population of less than two hundred
thousand as determined by the most recent federal decennial
census.
j. A county sheriff.
k. Up to two county attorneys who serve on child protection
assistance teams under section 915.35, subsection 4, paragraph
“a”.
l. Up to two members of the public who are former human
trafficking victims.
m. Up to two criminal defense attorneys with experience in
human trafficking cases.
n. A representative from the Iowa network against human
trafficking.
3. Members of the committee other than members of the
general assembly shall be nonvoting members.
4. The committee shall issue a report, including findings
and recommendations, to the governor and the general assembly
no later than December 15, 2023.
DIVISION VII
DIRECTIVE — department of public safety
Sec. 31. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY — PEACE OFFICERS’
RETIREMENT, ACCIDENT, AND DISABILITY SYSTEM. For the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the
department of public safety shall pay to the peace officers’
retirement, accident, and disability system created in chapter
97A, from moneys appropriated in this Act to the department
of public safety for the division of state patrol, the amount
sufficient to fund the actuarial cost of the remaining transfer
identified in 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 513, after the
-26-trustee-to-trustee lump sum transfer required by that Act has
been performed.
Sec. 32. CONTINGENT EFFECTIVE DATE. This division of this
Act takes effect July 1, 2023, if 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File
513, is enacted.
______________________________
AMY SINCLAIRPresident of the Senate______________________________
PAT GRASSLEYSpeaker of the House I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and is known as Senate File 562, Ninetieth General Assembly.______________________________
W. CHARLES SMITHSONSecretary of the SenateApproved _______________, 2023______________________________
KIM REYNOLDSGovernoras/ns/mb
system, including by providing for payments associated
with indigent defense and representation, the funding
of activities relating to consumer fraud and antitrust,
a corrections capital reinvestment fund, an Iowa law
enforcement academy study, a human trafficking study, and
the funding of peace officer retirement, and including
effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
DIVISION I
FY 2023-2024 APPROPRIATIONS
Section 1. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
to the department of justice for the fiscal year beginning July
1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following amounts, or
so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
designated:
a. For the general office of attorney general for
salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes,
including the prosecuting attorneys training program, matching
funds for federal violence against women grant programs,
victim assistance grants, the office of drug control policy
prosecuting attorney program, and odometer fraud enforcement,
and for not more than the following full-time equivalent
positions:
.................................................. $7,749,860
............................................... FTEs228.00
As a condition of receiving the appropriation provided
in this lettered paragraph, the department of justice shall
maintain a record of the estimated time incurred representing
each agency or department.
The general office of attorney general may temporarily
exceed and draw more than the amount appropriated in this
lettered paragraph and incur a negative cash balance as long
as there are receivables equal to or greater than the negative
balances and the amount appropriated in this lettered paragraph
is not exceeded at the close of the fiscal year.
b. For victim assistance grants:
.................................................. $5,016,708
The moneys appropriated in this lettered paragraph shall be
used to provide grants to care providers providing services to
crime victims of domestic abuse or to crime victims of rape and
sexual assault.
The balance of the victim compensation fund established
-1-in section 915.94 may be used to provide salary and support
of not more than 24.00 full-time equivalent positions and to
provide maintenance for the victim compensation functions
of the department of justice. In addition to the full-time
equivalent positions authorized pursuant to this paragraph,
7.00 full-time equivalent positions are authorized and shall
be used by the department of justice to employ one accountant
and four program planners. The department of justice may
employ the additional 7.00 full-time equivalent positions
authorized pursuant to this paragraph that are in excess of the
number of full-time equivalent positions authorized only if
the department of justice receives sufficient federal moneys
to maintain employment for the additional full-time equivalent
positions during the current fiscal year. The department
of justice shall only employ the additional 7.00 full-time
equivalent positions in succeeding fiscal years if sufficient
federal moneys are received during each of those succeeding
fiscal years.
The department of justice shall transfer at least $150,000
from the victim compensation fund established in section 915.94
to the victim assistance grant program established in section
13.31.
Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this
lettered paragraph that remain unencumbered or unobligated at
the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain
available for expenditure for the purposes designated until the
close of the succeeding fiscal year.
c. For legal services for persons in poverty grants as
provided in section 13.34:
.................................................. $2,634,601
d. To improve the department of justice’s cybersecurity and
technology infrastructure:
.................................................. $202,060
2. a. The department of justice, in submitting budget
estimates for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, pursuant
-2-to section 8.23, shall include a report of funding from sources
other than amounts appropriated directly from the general fund
of the state to the department of justice or to the office of
consumer advocate. These funding sources shall include but
are not limited to reimbursements from other state agencies,
commissions, boards, or similar entities, and reimbursements
from special funds or internal accounts within the department
of justice. The department of justice shall also report actual
reimbursements for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022,
and actual and expected reimbursements for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2023.
b. The department of justice shall include the report
required under paragraph “a”, as well as information regarding
any revisions occurring as a result of reimbursements actually
received or expected at a later date, in a report to the
general assembly. The department of justice shall submit the
report on or before January 15, 2024.
3. a. The department of justice shall fully reimburse
the costs and necessary related expenses incurred by the Iowa
law enforcement academy to continue to employ one additional
instructor position who shall provide training for human
trafficking-related issues throughout the state.
b. The department of justice shall obtain the moneys
necessary to reimburse the Iowa law enforcement academy to
employ such an instructor from unrestricted moneys from either
the victim compensation fund established in section 915.94 or
the human trafficking victim fund established in section 915.95
or the human trafficking enforcement fund established in 2015
Iowa Acts, chapter 138, section 141.
Sec. 2. OFFICE OF CONSUMER ADVOCATE. There is appropriated
from the commerce revolving fund created in section 546.12, as
amended by 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 514, to the office of
consumer advocate of the department of justice for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the
following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
-3-used for the purposes designated:
For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, and for not more than the following full-time
equivalent positions:
.................................................. $3,378,093
............................................... FTEs18.00
The office of consumer advocate shall include in its charges
assessed or revenues generated an amount sufficient to cover
the amount stated in its appropriation and any state-assessed
indirect costs determined by the department of administrative
services.
Sec. 3. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS — FACILITIES.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
to the department of corrections for the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following amounts,
or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
designated:
a. For the operation of the Fort Madison correctional
facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $44,192,771
b. For the operation of the Anamosa correctional facility,
including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes:
.................................................. $37,022,808
c. For the operation of the Oakdale correctional facility,
including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes:
.................................................. $56,368,832
d. For the Oakdale correctional facility for
department-wide institutional pharmaceuticals and miscellaneous
purposes:
.................................................. $9,550,417
e. For the operation of the Newton correctional facility,
including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
-4-purposes:
.................................................. $30,437,665
f. For the operation of the Mount Pleasant correctional
facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $28,642,429
g. For the operation of the Rockwell City correctional
facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $11,090,142
h. For the operation of the Clarinda correctional facility,
including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes:
.................................................. $27,355,684
Moneys received by the department of corrections as
reimbursement for services provided to the Clarinda youth
corporation are appropriated to the department and shall be
used for the purpose of operating the Clarinda correctional
facility.
i. For the operation of the Mitchellville correctional
facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $24,946,721
j. For the operation of the Fort Dodge correctional
facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $32,742,479
k. For reimbursement of counties for temporary confinement
of prisoners, as provided in sections 901.7, 904.908, and
906.17, and for offenders confined pursuant to section 904.513:
.................................................. $1,195,319
l. For federal prison reimbursement, reimbursements for
out-of-state placements, and miscellaneous contracts:
.................................................. $234,411
2. The department of corrections shall use moneys
-5-appropriated in subsection 1 to continue to contract for the
services of a Muslim imam and a Native American spiritual
leader.
Sec. 4. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS — ADMINISTRATION.
There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the
department of corrections for the fiscal year beginning July
1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following amounts, or
so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
designated:
1. For general administration, including salaries and the
adjustment of salaries throughout the department, support,
maintenance, employment of an education director to administer
a centralized education program for the correctional system,
and miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $6,313,331
a. It is the intent of the general assembly that each
lease negotiated by the department of corrections with a
private corporation for the purpose of providing private
industry employment of inmates in a correctional institution
shall prohibit the private corporation from utilizing inmate
labor for partisan political purposes for any person seeking
election to public office in this state and that a violation
of this requirement shall result in a termination of the lease
agreement.
b. It is the intent of the general assembly that as a
condition of receiving the appropriation provided in this
subsection the department of corrections shall not enter into
a lease or contractual agreement pursuant to section 904.809
with a private corporation for the use of building space for
the purpose of providing inmate employment without providing
that the terms of the lease or contract establish safeguards to
restrict, to the greatest extent feasible, access by inmates
working for the private corporation to personal identifying
information of citizens.
2. For educational programs for inmates at state penal
-6-institutions:
.................................................. $2,608,109
a. To maximize the funding for educational programs,
the department shall establish guidelines and procedures to
prioritize the availability of educational and vocational
training for inmates based upon the goal of facilitating an
inmate’s successful release from the correctional institution.
b. The director of the department of corrections may
transfer moneys from Iowa prison industries and the canteen
operating funds established pursuant to section 904.310, for
use in educational programs for inmates.
c. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in
this subsection that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the
close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain
available to be used only for the purposes designated in this
subsection until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.
3. For the development and operation of the Iowa corrections
offender network (ICON) data system:
.................................................. $2,000,000
4. For offender mental health and substance abuse
treatment:
.................................................. $28,065
5. For department-wide duties, including operations, costs,
and miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $12,974,108
Sec. 5. JUDICIAL DISTRICT DEPARTMENTS OF CORRECTIONAL
SERVICES.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
to the department of corrections for the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, for salaries, support,
maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, the following amounts,
or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
designated:
a. For the first judicial district department of
correctional services:
-7-.................................................. $16,207,339
It is the intent of the general assembly that the first
judicial district department of correctional services maintains
the drug courts operated by the district department.
b. For the second judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $12,789,649
It is the intent of the general assembly that the second
judicial district department of correctional services maintains
two drug courts to be operated by the district department.
c. For the third judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $7,710,790
d. For the fourth judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $6,193,805
e. For the fifth judicial district department of
correctional services, including funding for electronic
monitoring devices for use on a statewide basis:
.................................................. $23,440,024
It is the intent of the general assembly that the fifth
judicial district department of correctional services maintains
the drug court operated by the district department.
f. For the sixth judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $16,755,370
It is the intent of the general assembly that the sixth
judicial district department of correctional services maintains
the drug court operated by the district department.
g. For the seventh judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $10,362,851
It is the intent of the general assembly that the seventh
judicial district department of correctional services maintains
the drug court operated by the district department.
-8- h. For the eighth judicial district department of
correctional services:
.................................................. $9,238,778
2. Each judicial district department of correctional
services, within the moneys available, shall continue programs
and plans established within that district to provide for
intensive supervision, sex offender treatment, diversion of
low-risk offenders to the least restrictive sanction available,
job development, and expanded use of intermediate criminal
sanctions.
3. Each judicial district department of correctional
services shall provide alternatives to prison consistent with
chapter 901B. The alternatives to prison shall ensure public
safety while providing maximum rehabilitation to the offender.
A judicial district department of correctional services may
also establish a day program.
4. The office of drug control policy of the department
of public safety shall consider federal grants made to the
department of corrections for the benefit of each of the eight
judicial district departments of correctional services as local
government grants, as defined pursuant to federal regulations.
5. The department of corrections shall continue to contract
with a judicial district department of correctional services to
provide for the rental of electronic monitoring equipment which
shall be available statewide.
6. The public safety assessment shall not be utilized in
pretrial hearings when determining whether to detain or release
a defendant before trial until such time the use of the public
safety assessment has been specifically authorized by the
general assembly.
Sec. 6. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS — REALLOCATION OF
APPROPRIATIONS. Notwithstanding section 8.39, within the
moneys appropriated in this division of this Act to the
department of corrections, the department may reallocate the
moneys appropriated and allocated as necessary to best fulfill
-9-the needs of the correctional institutions, administration
of the department, and the judicial district departments of
correctional services. However, in addition to complying with
the requirements of sections 904.116 and 905.8 and providing
notice to the legislative services agency, the department
of corrections shall also provide notice to the department
of management, prior to the effective date of the revision
or reallocation of an appropriation made pursuant to this
section. The department of corrections shall not reallocate an
appropriation or allocation for the purpose of eliminating any
program.
Sec. 7. INTENT — REPORTS.
1. The department of corrections, in cooperation with
townships, the Iowa cemetery associations, and other nonprofit
or governmental entities, may use inmate labor during the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, to restore or preserve
rural cemeteries and historical landmarks. The department, in
cooperation with the counties, may also use inmate labor to
clean up roads, major water sources, and other water sources
around the state.
2. By January 15, 2024, the department shall provide an
annual status report regarding private-sector employment to
the general assembly. The report shall include the number
of offenders employed in the private sector, the combined
number of hours worked by the offenders, the total amount of
allowances, and the distribution of allowances pursuant to
section 904.702, including any moneys deposited in the general
fund of the state.
Sec. 8. ELECTRONIC MONITORING REPORT. The department of
corrections shall submit a report on electronic monitoring
to the general assembly by January 15, 2024. The report
shall specifically address the number of persons being
electronically monitored and break down the number of persons
being electronically monitored by offense committed. The
report shall also include a comparison of any data from the
-10-prior fiscal year with the current fiscal year.
Sec. 9. STATE AGENCY PURCHASES FROM PRISON INDUSTRIES.
1. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise
requires, “state agency” means the government of the state
of Iowa, including but not limited to all executive branch
departments, agencies, boards, bureaus, and commissions, the
judicial branch, the general assembly and all legislative
agencies, institutions within the purview of the state board of
regents, and any corporation whose primary function is to act
as an instrumentality of the state.
2. State agencies are encouraged to purchase products from
Iowa state industries, as defined in section 904.802, when
purchases are required and the products are available from
Iowa state industries. State agencies shall obtain bids from
Iowa state industries for purchases of office furniture during
the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, exceeding $5,000 or
in accordance with applicable administrative rules related to
purchases for the agency.
Sec. 10. IOWA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the
state to the Iowa law enforcement academy for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following
amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the
purposes designated:
a. For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, including jailer training and technical assistance,
and for not more than the following full-time equivalent
positions:
.................................................. $1,238,504
............................................... FTEs30.25
b. The Iowa law enforcement academy may temporarily exceed
and draw more than the amount appropriated in this subsection
and incur a negative cash balance as long as there are
receivables equal to or greater than the negative balance and
the amount appropriated in this subsection is not exceeded at
-11-the close of the fiscal year.
2. The Iowa law enforcement academy may select at least
five automobiles of the department of public safety, division
of state patrol, prior to turning over the automobiles to
the department of administrative services to be disposed
of by public auction, and the Iowa law enforcement academy
may exchange any automobile owned by the academy for each
automobile selected if the selected automobile is used in
training law enforcement officers at the academy. However, any
automobile exchanged by the academy shall be substituted for
the selected vehicle of the department of public safety and
sold by public auction with the receipts being deposited in the
depreciation fund maintained pursuant to section 8A.365 to the
credit of the department of public safety, division of state
patrol.
3. The Iowa law enforcement academy shall provide training
for domestic abuse and human trafficking-related issues
throughout the state. The training shall be offered at no
cost to the attendees and the training shall not replace any
existing domestic abuse or human trafficking training offered
by the academy.
Sec. 11. STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
to the office of the state public defender of the department
of inspections, appeals, and licensing for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following
amounts, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the
purposes designated:
a. For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, and for not more than the following full-time
equivalent positions:
.................................................. $30,718,203
............................................... FTEs241.00
b. For payments on behalf of eligible adults and juveniles
from the indigent defense fund, in accordance with section
-12-815.11:
.................................................. $44,046,374
2. Moneys received by the office of the state public
defender pursuant to Tit.IV-E of the federal Social Security
Act remaining unencumbered and unobligated at the end of the
fiscal year shall not revert but shall be transferred to the
Tit.IV-E juvenile justice improvement fund created in 2022
Iowa Acts, chapter 1146, section 11, subsection 3, to remain
available for expenditure by the office of the state public
defender in succeeding fiscal years for the purposes allowed by
Tit.IV-E of the federal Social Security Act.
Sec. 12. BOARD OF PAROLE. There is appropriated from the
general fund of the state to the board of parole for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the
following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
used for the purposes designated:
For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, and for not more than the following full-time
equivalent positions:
.................................................. $1,517,894
............................................... FTEs11.00
Sec. 13. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC DEFENSE.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the
state to the department of public defense, for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following
amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the
purposes designated:
For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, and for not more than the following full-time
equivalent positions:
.................................................. $6,963,037
............................................... FTEs248.00
2. The department of public defense may temporarily exceed
and draw more than the amount appropriated in this section and
incur a negative cash balance as long as there are receivables
-13-of federal funds equal to or greater than the negative balance
and the amount appropriated in this section is not exceeded at
the close of the fiscal year.
Sec. 14. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
to the department of homeland security and emergency management
for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30,
2024, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary,
to be used for the purposes designated:
For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes, and for not more than the following full-time
equivalent positions:
.................................................. $2,439,389
............................................... FTEs25.44
2. The department of homeland security and emergency
management may temporarily exceed and draw more than the amount
appropriated in this section and incur a negative cash balance
as long as there are receivables of federal funds equal to or
greater than the negative balance and the amount appropriated
in this section is not exceeded at the close of the fiscal
year.
Sec. 15. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. There is appropriated
from the general fund of the state to the department of public
safety for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending
June 30, 2024, the following amounts, or so much thereof as is
necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
1. For administrative functions, including salaries and the
adjustment of salaries throughout the department, the criminal
justice information system, and for not more than the following
full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $5,920,476
............................................... FTEs47.00
2. For the division of criminal investigation, including
the state’s contribution to the peace officers’ retirement,
-14-accident, and disability system provided in chapter 97A in the
amount of the state’s normal contribution rate, as defined in
section 97A.8, multiplied by the salaries for which the moneys
are appropriated, to meet federal fund matching requirements,
and for not more than the following full-time equivalent
positions:
.................................................. $19,712,633
............................................... FTEs180.00
3. For the criminalistics laboratory fund created in
section 691.9:
.................................................. $650,000
Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this
subsection that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close
of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available
for expenditure for the purposes designated until the close of
the succeeding fiscal year.
4. a. For the division of narcotics enforcement, including
the state’s contribution to the peace officers’ retirement,
accident, and disability system provided in chapter 97A in the
amount of the state’s normal contribution rate, as defined in
section 97A.8, multiplied by the salaries for which the moneys
are appropriated, to meet federal fund matching requirements,
and for not more than the following full-time equivalent
positions:
.................................................. $8,613,894
............................................... FTEs67.00
The division of narcotics enforcement is authorized an
additional 1.00 full-time equivalent position pursuant to
this lettered paragraph that is in excess of the number of
full-time equivalent positions authorized for the previous
fiscal year only if the division of narcotics enforcement
receives sufficient federal moneys to maintain employment
for the additional full-time equivalent position during the
current fiscal year. The division of narcotics enforcement
shall only employ the additional full-time equivalent position
-15-in succeeding fiscal years if sufficient federal moneys are
received during each of those succeeding fiscal years.
b. For the division of narcotics enforcement for undercover
purchases:
.................................................. $209,042
5. For the division of state fire marshal, for fire
protection services as provided through the state fire service
and emergency response council as created in the department,
and for the state’s contribution to the peace officers’
retirement, accident, and disability system provided in chapter
97A in the amount of the state’s normal contribution rate,
as defined in section 97A.8, multiplied by the salaries for
which the moneys are appropriated, and for not more than the
following full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $3,230,743
............................................... FTEs21.00
6. For the division of state patrol, for salaries, support,
maintenance, workers’ compensation costs, and miscellaneous
purposes, including the state’s contribution to the peace
officers’ retirement, accident, and disability system provided
in chapter 97A in the amount of the state’s normal contribution
rate, as defined in section 97A.8, multiplied by the salaries
for which the moneys are appropriated, and for not more than
the following full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $87,066,931
............................................... FTEs613.00
It is the intent of the general assembly that members of the
state patrol be assigned to patrol the highways and roads in
lieu of assignments for inspecting school buses for the school
districts.
7. For deposit in the sick leave benefits fund established
in section 80.42 for all departmental employees eligible to
receive benefits for accrued sick leave under the collective
bargaining agreement:
.................................................. $279,517
-16- 8. For costs associated with the training and equipment
needs of volunteer fire fighters:
.................................................. $1,075,520
Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this
subsection that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close
of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available
for expenditure for the purposes designated in this subsection
until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.
9. For the public safety interoperable and broadband
communications fund established in section 80.44:
.................................................. $115,661
10. For the office to combat human trafficking established
pursuant to section 80.45, including salaries, support,
maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than
the following full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $200,742
............................................... FTEs2.00
11. For department-wide duties, including operations,
costs, and miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $6,456,270
12. For deposit in the public safety equipment fund
established in section 80.48 for the purchase, maintenance, and
replacement of equipment used by the department:
.................................................. $2,500,000
13. For the office of drug control policy, for salaries,
support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, including
statewide coordination of the drug abuse resistance education
(D.A.R.E) programs or other similar programs, and for not more
than the following full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $249,219
............................................... FTEs4.00
Notwithstanding section 8.39, the department of public
safety may reallocate moneys appropriated in this section
as necessary to best fulfill the needs provided for in the
appropriation. However, the department shall not reallocate
-17-moneys appropriated to the department in this section unless
notice of the reallocation is given to the legislative services
agency and the department of management prior to the effective
date of the reallocation. The notice shall include information
regarding the rationale for reallocating the moneys. The
department shall not reallocate moneys appropriated in this
section for the purpose of eliminating any program.
Sec. 16. GAMING ENFORCEMENT.
1. There is appropriated from the gaming enforcement
revolving fund created in section 80.43 to the department of
public safety for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and
ending June 30, 2024, the following amount, or so much thereof
as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
For any direct support costs for agents and officers of
the division of criminal investigation’s excursion gambling
boat, gambling structure, and racetrack enclosure enforcement
activities, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following
full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $10,778,483
............................................... FTEs65.00
2. For each additional license to conduct gambling games on
an excursion gambling boat, gambling structure, or racetrack
enclosure issued during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023,
there is appropriated from the gaming enforcement revolving
fund to the department of public safety for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, an additional
amount of not more than $300,000 to be used for full-time
equivalent positions.
3. The department of public safety, with the approval of the
department of management, may employ no more than three special
agents for each additional riverboat or gambling structure
regulated after July 1, 2024, and three special agents for
each racing facility which becomes operational during the
fiscal year which begins July 1, 2024. Positions authorized
-18-in this subsection are in addition to the full-time equivalent
positions otherwise authorized in this section.
Sec. 17. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT. There is appropriated from the 911 emergency
communications fund created in section 34A.7A to the department
of homeland security and emergency management for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the
following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
used for the purposes designated:
For implementation, support, and maintenance of the
functions of the administrator and program manager under
chapter 34A and to employ the auditor of the state to perform
an annual audit of the 911 emergency communications fund:
.................................................. $300,000
Sec. 18. CONSUMER EDUCATION AND LITIGATION — FARM
MEDIATION AND PROSECUTIONS, APPEALS, AND CLAIMS.
Notwithstanding section 714.16C, there is appropriated from the
consumer education and litigation fund to the department of
justice for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending
June 30, 2024, the following amounts, or so much thereof as is
necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
1. For farm mediation services as specified in section
13.13, subsection 2:
.................................................. $300,000
2. For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
purposes for criminal prosecutions, criminal appeals, and
performing duties pursuant to chapter 669:
.................................................. $2,000,000
DIVISION II
INDIGENT DEFENSE and representation
Sec. 19. Section 815.7, subsections 6 and 7, Code 2023, are
amended to read as follows:
6. For appointments made on or after July 1, 2021, through
June 30, 2022, the reasonable compensation shall be calculated
on the basis of seventy-six dollars per hour for class “A”
-19-felonies, seventy-one dollars per hour for class “B” felonies,
and sixty-six dollars per hour for all other cases.
7. For appointments made on or after July 1, 2022, through
June 30, 2023, the reasonable compensation shall be calculated
on the basis of seventy-eight dollars per hour for class
“A” felonies, seventy-three dollars per hour for class “B”
felonies, and sixty-eight dollars per hour for all other cases.
Sec. 20. Section 815.7, Code 2023, is amended by adding the
following new subsection:
NEW SUBSECTION. 7A. For appointments made on or after July
1, 2023, the reasonable compensation shall be calculated on the
basis of eighty-three dollars per hour for class “A” felonies,
seventy-eight dollars per hour for class “B” felonies, and
seventy-three dollars per hour for all other cases.
Sec. 21. NEW SECTION. 815.7A Travel time for attorney or
guardian ad litem.
1. Compensation for time spent by an attorney or guardian
ad litem traveling outside of the attorney’s or guardian ad
litem’s county of domicile is payable when the travel is
reasonable and necessary to represent the indigent client and
shall be calculated at a rate of thirty-five dollars per hour.
Compensation for travel for a court proceeding other than a
trial or other contested proceeding shall only be paid if the
attorney or guardian ad litem files a motion for a remote
hearing and the motion is denied. This section does not affect
any allowable compensation for time spent traveling already
compensated pursuant to any other applicable provision of law.
2. Compensation for travel for an arraignment, pretrial
conference, scheduling conference, or any other uncontested or
nontestimonial judicial proceeding, for which a request for a
remote hearing was denied, paid to the attorney or guardian ad
litem from the indigent defense fund created in section 815.11
shall be reimbursed by the judicial branch.
3. For purposes of this section, “county of domicile” means
the address the attorney or guardian ad litem has on file with
-20-the office of the state public defender.
DIVISION III
ATTORNEY GENERAL — ANTITRUST FUND — CONSUMER EDUCATION AND
LITIGATION FUND
Sec. 22. 2014 Iowa Acts, chapter 1138, section 21, as
amended by 2016 Iowa Acts, chapter 1137, section 18, 2017 Iowa
Acts, chapter 167, section 24, 2019 Iowa Acts, chapter 163,
section 26, and 2021 Iowa Acts, chapter 166, section 23, is
amended to read as follows:
SEC. 21. CONSUMER EDUCATION AND LITIGATION
FUND. Notwithstanding section 714.16C, for each fiscal
year of the period beginning July 1, 2014, and ending June
30, 2023 2025, the annual appropriations in section 714.16C,
are increased from $1,125,000 to $1,875,000, and $75,000 to
$125,000 respectively.
Sec. 23. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LITIGATION
FUNDS. Notwithstanding sections 553.19 and 714.16C,
for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June
30, 2023, and beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30,
2024, any moneys not otherwise appropriated from the antitrust
fund created in section 553.19 and the consumer education and
litigation fund created in section 714.16C are appropriated to
the department of justice for salaries, support, maintenance,
and miscellaneous purposes necessary to perform the duties
described in section 13.2.
Sec. 24. EFFECTIVE DATE. The following, being deemed of
immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment:
The section of this division of this Act regarding the use of
moneys not otherwise appropriated from the antitrust fund and
the consumer education and litigation fund.
Sec. 25. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. The following applies
retroactively to July 1, 2022:
The section of this division of this Act regarding the use of
moneys not otherwise appropriated from the antitrust fund and
the consumer education and litigation fund.
-21-DIVISION IV
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Sec. 26. Section 904.317, Code 2023, is amended to read as
follows:
904.317 Director may buy and sell real estate — options.
1. The director, subject to the approval of the board, may
secure options to purchase real estate and acquire and sell
real estate for the proper uses of the institutions. Real
estate shall be acquired and sold upon terms and conditions
the director recommends subject to the approval of the board.
Upon sale of the real estate, the proceeds shall be deposited
with the treasurer of state and credited to the general fund
of the state in a corrections capital reinvestment fund, which
is established in the state treasury under the purview of
the department. There is appropriated from the general fund
of the state to the department a sum equal to the proceeds,
so deposited and credited to the general fund of the state
which may be used to purchase other real estate or for capital
improvements upon property under the director’s supervision.
Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the fund that remain
unencumbered or unobligated at the close of a fiscal year shall
not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the
purposes designated. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection
2, interest or earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited
to the fund.
2. The costs incident to the securing of options and
acquisition and sale of real estate including, but not limited
to, appraisals, invitations for offers, abstracts, and other
necessary costs, may be paid from moneys appropriated for
support and maintenance to the institution at which the real
estate is located. The fund funding source for these costs
shall be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale.
Sec. 27. TRANSFER. Moneys remaining in the general
fund of the state on June 30, 2023, from the sale of real
estate pursuant to section 904.317, that are available to the
-22-department of corrections are transferred to the corrections
capital reinvestment fund established in section 904.317, as
amended in this division of this Act.
Sec. 28. EFFECTIVE DATE. This division of this Act takes
effect June 30, 2023.
DIVISION V
IOWA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY study
Sec. 29. IOWA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY INTERIM STUDY
COMMITTEE.
1. The legislative council is requested to establish an Iowa
law enforcement academy interim study committee to do all of
the following:
a. Review and evaluate minimum entrance requirements, the
course of study, attendance requirements, and the sufficiency
of current equipment and facilities.
b. Review and evaluate minimum basic training requirements.
c. Review and evaluate minimum standards of physical,
mental, educational, and moral fitness.
d. Consider additional locations for law enforcement
training schools and current and future facility needs.
2. The committee shall include all of the following members:
a. Ten members of the general assembly, including five
members of the senate, three of whom shall be appointed by
the majority leader of the senate and two of whom shall be
appointed by the minority leader of the senate, and five
members of the house of representatives, three of whom shall be
appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and
two of whom shall be appointed by the minority leader of the
house of representatives.
b. The director of the Iowa law enforcement academy or the
director’s designee.
c. A member of the Iowa law enforcement academy council.
d. A sheriff of a county with a population of fifty thousand
or more who is a member of the Iowa state sheriffs and deputies
association.
-23- e. A sheriff of a county with a population of less than
fifty thousand who is a member of the Iowa state sheriffs and
deputies association.
f. A police chief of a city with a population of fifty
thousand or more who is a member of the Iowa police chiefs
association.
g. A police chief of a city with a population of less
than fifty thousand who is a member of the Iowa police chiefs
association.
h. A police officer who is a member of a police department
of a city with a population of fifty thousand or more who is a
member of the Iowa peace officers association.
i. A police officer who is a member of a police department
of a city with a population of less than fifty thousand who is a
member of the Iowa peace officers association.
j. The commissioner of the department of public safety or
the commissioner’s designee.
k. A member of the Iowa county attorneys association.
l. The attorney general or the attorney general’s designee.
m. The governor or the governor’s designee.
3. Members of the committee other than members of the
general assembly shall be nonvoting members.
4. The committee shall issue a report, including findings
and recommendations, to the governor and the general assembly
no later than December 15, 2023.
DIVISION VI
HUMAN TRAFFICKING STUDY
Sec. 30. HUMAN TRAFFICKING INTERIM STUDY COMMITTEE.
1. The legislative council is requested to establish a human
trafficking interim study committee to do all of the following:
a. Identify current initiatives to eliminate the human
trafficking of minors in the state.
b. Identify current services available in the state for
minor victims of human trafficking.
c. Identify and investigate the laws of other states that
-24-focus on minor victims of human trafficking, concentrating on
those states that border Iowa, to determine if another state’s
model would be effective in Iowa. Recommendations shall
include funding needs for any services or programs.
d. Research and recommend a model of rehabilitative
services for minor victims of human trafficking that includes
input from law enforcement, social services organizations, the
judicial system, and mental health professionals.
e. Identify barriers that prevent minor victims of human
trafficking from seeking legal assistance or medical attention.
f. Create a procedure to be followed by all law enforcement
officers statewide if a law enforcement officer encounters a
minor who may be a victim of human trafficking.
g. Investigate the efficacy of safe harbor laws.
h. Investigate and identify potential routes to eliminate
human trafficking of minors in the state.
i. Make recommendations on appropriate human
trafficking-related training for law enforcement officers,
county attorneys, and juvenile service officers.
j. Identify funding needs based upon recommendations made
by the committee.
2. The committee shall include all of the following members:
a. Three members of the senate, two of whom shall be
appointed by the majority leader of the senate, and one of whom
shall be appointed by the minority leader of the senate.
b. Three members of the house of representatives, two
of whom shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of
representatives, and one of whom shall be appointed by the
minority leader of the house of representatives.
c. A representative of the department of public safety.
d. A representative of the office to combat human
trafficking.
e. A representative of the attorney general’s office.
f. A representative of the department of health and human
services.
-25- g. A representative of juvenile court services.
h. The chief of police or head law enforcement official of
a city in this state with a population of two hundred thousand
or more as determined by the most recent population estimates
issued by the United States bureau of census.
i. The chief of police or head law enforcement official of
a city in this state with a population of less than two hundred
thousand as determined by the most recent federal decennial
census.
j. A county sheriff.
k. Up to two county attorneys who serve on child protection
assistance teams under section 915.35, subsection 4, paragraph
“a”.
l. Up to two members of the public who are former human
trafficking victims.
m. Up to two criminal defense attorneys with experience in
human trafficking cases.
n. A representative from the Iowa network against human
trafficking.
3. Members of the committee other than members of the
general assembly shall be nonvoting members.
4. The committee shall issue a report, including findings
and recommendations, to the governor and the general assembly
no later than December 15, 2023.
DIVISION VII
DIRECTIVE — department of public safety
Sec. 31. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY — PEACE OFFICERS’
RETIREMENT, ACCIDENT, AND DISABILITY SYSTEM. For the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the
department of public safety shall pay to the peace officers’
retirement, accident, and disability system created in chapter
97A, from moneys appropriated in this Act to the department
of public safety for the division of state patrol, the amount
sufficient to fund the actuarial cost of the remaining transfer
identified in 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 513, after the
-26-trustee-to-trustee lump sum transfer required by that Act has
been performed.
Sec. 32. CONTINGENT EFFECTIVE DATE. This division of this
Act takes effect July 1, 2023, if 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File
513, is enacted.
______________________________
AMY SINCLAIRPresident of the Senate______________________________
PAT GRASSLEYSpeaker of the House I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and is known as Senate File 562, Ninetieth General Assembly.______________________________
W. CHARLES SMITHSONSecretary of the SenateApproved _______________, 2023______________________________
KIM REYNOLDSGovernoras/ns/mb