Bill Text: IA HF2304 | 2023-2024 | 90th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act prohibiting quotas for traffic stops by peace officers.(Formerly HF 2010.)
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-07 - Subcommittee recommends passage. []. [HF2304 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2023-HF2304-Introduced.html
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BY
COMMITTEE
ON
PUBLIC
SAFETY
(SUCCESSOR
TO
HF
2010)
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
prohibiting
quotas
for
traffic
stops
by
peace
officers.
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BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
321.492A,
Code
2024,
is
amended
to
read
1
as
follows:
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321.492A
Quotas
on
for
stops
and
citations
prohibited.
3
A
political
subdivision
or
agency
of
the
state
shall
not
4
order,
mandate,
require,
or
in
any
other
manner,
directly
5
or
indirectly,
suggest
to
a
peace
officer
employed
by
the
6
political
subdivision
or
agency
that
the
peace
officer
shall
7
stop
a
certain
number
of
persons
committing
an
alleged
traffic
8
violation
or
issue
a
certain
number
of
traffic
citations,
9
police
citations,
memorandums
of
traffic
violations,
or
10
memorandums
of
faulty
equipment
on
a
daily,
weekly,
monthly,
11
quarterly,
or
yearly
basis.
12
EXPLANATION
13
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
14
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
15
Current
law
prohibits
a
political
subdivision
or
agency
of
16
Iowa
that
employs
peace
officers
from
imposing
a
quota
on
the
17
number
of
citations
issued
by
the
officers.
This
bill
also
18
prohibits
imposing
a
quota
for
the
number
of
stops
of
persons
19
committing
alleged
traffic
violations,
regardless
of
whether
a
20
citation
or
memorandum
is
issued.
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