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The Legislature adjourned for the summer on June 30. The Senate Democratic Research staff has compiled a review to help you sort through the highlights, low-lights and missed opportunities of the 2011 legislative session. (Updated 8/1/11)
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Cathy Engel SF 236 – Department of Public Safety Bill FLOOR ACTION: SF 236 is a Department of Public Safety bill that the Senate passed previously in the session. It came back to the Senate from the House with an amendment. The bill makes a number of Code changes intended to strike unnecessary [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Cathy Engel SF 326 – Appointment of Judicial Officers and Senior Judges FLOOR ACTION: SF 326 is a Judicial Branch bill which the Senate approved on March 10th. The bill was amended by the House and sent back to the Senate. It does the following: **Allows the chief justice of the Iowa Supreme [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Cathy Engel HF 321 – County Attorney Duties Relating to Schools and Extradition HF 565 – Service Upon Foreign Corporations and Names of Limited Liability Companies FLOOR ACTION: HF 321 strikes provisions requiring a county attorney to bring an action against a debtor who owes money to the permanent school fund created in [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Cathy Engel HF 243 – Instruments Used to Update the County Transfer Books HF 271 – Bail for Criminal Defendants and Credit for Time Served in Municipal Holding Facilities HF 321 – County Attorney Duties HF 565 – Service Upon Foreign Corporations and Names of Limited Liability Companies FLOOR ACTION: HF 243 rewrites [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Cathy Engel HF 245 – Posthumously Conceived and Born Children FLOOR ACTION: HF 245 changes Iowa law so that a child who is conceived using genetic material (e.g., sperm, eggs, embryos) from the child’s parent after that parent has died will be considered the legitimate child of that person but only under very [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Cathy Engel SF 326 – Appointment of Judicial Officers and Senior Judges SF 365 – Youthful Offenders SF 400 – Conveyance of a Homestead and Spousal Rights SF 456 – Mental Health Commitments and Firearms Prohibitions SF 462 – Synthetic Marijuana SF 474 – Non-Substantive Code Editor’s Bill SF 475 – Substantive Code [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Cathy Engel SF 93 – Enhanced Penalties for Domestic Abuse Strangulation SF 124 – Electronic Contraband in Prisons and Jails SF 177 – Appointment of Iowa Law Enforcement Academy Director and Council Membership SF 236 – Department of Public Safety Cleanup Bill SF 244 – Release and Satisfaction of Judgments SF 259 – [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Cathy Engel SF 155 – In Rem Forfeiture Proceedings SF 291 – Privileged Mental Health Records in a Criminal Proceeding SSB 1010 –Judicial Branch Bill Relating to Appointment of Judicial Officers SSB 1043 – Youthful Offenders SSB 1056 – Relating to Permits to Carry Weapons SSB 1057 – Child with mental Illness or [...]
Read the full story >>STAFF CONTACT: Cathy Engel SF 165 – Setting Aside Conviction for a Traffic Offense/Injury or Death SSB 1094 – Privileged Mental Health Records in a Criminal Proceeding (Cashen Decision) COMMITTEE ACTION: SF 165 – Iowa law provides that if someone is seriously injured or dies as a result of another person committing one of a [...]
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