House File 195 - EnrolledAn Actrelating to requests for notice of probate proceedings.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
   Section 1.  Section 633.42, Code 2017, is amended to read as
follows:
   633.42  Requests for notice.
  1.  At any time after the issuance of letters testamentary or
of administration upon a decedent’s estate
 of appointment, any
 interested person interested in the estate proceeding may file
with the clerk a written request, in triplicate, for notice of
the time and place of all hearings in such estate proceeding
for which notice is required by law, by rule of court, or by
an order in such estate proceeding. The request for notice
shall state the name, electronic mail address, and post office
address of such person the requester and of the requester’s
and the name and post office address of the attorney, if
any, for the party requesting the notice and the reason the
requester is an interested person in the proceeding
. The clerk
shall docket the request, and transmit the duplicates to the
personal representative of the estate of the decedent and to
the personal representative’s attorney of record, if any
.
Thereafter, the personal representative shall, unless otherwise
ordered by the court, the fiduciary shall serve, by ordinary
 or electronic mail, a notice of each hearing upon such person,
or
 requester and the person’s requestor’s attorney, if any, a
notice of each hearing
.
   2.  A person does not gain standing by filing a request for
notice under this section.
______________________________
LINDA UPMEYERSpeaker of the House
______________________________
JACK WHITVERPresident of the Senate
   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 195, Eighty-seventh General Assembly.______________________________
CARMINE BOALChief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2017______________________________
TERRY E. BRANSTADGovernor
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