Bill Text: IA HF130 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act concerning the release of certain military personnel records. (See HF 308.)

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-22 - Withdrawn. H.J. 451. [HF130 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF130-Introduced.html

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House File 130 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  OURTH and HOLT

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act concerning the release of certain military personnel
  2    records.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 331.608, subsection 6, paragraph b, Code
  1  2 2017, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    b.  To a person requesting to examine or copy a record when
  1  4 the event that resulted in the record being made occurred more
  1  5 than seventy=five sixty=two years prior to the request.
  1  6                           EXPLANATION
  1  7 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1  8 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1  9    This bill concerns the release of military personnel records
  1 10 maintained by a county recorder under Code section 331.608.
  1 11 The bill allows a person to request a copy of a record that
  1 12 would otherwise be confidential if the event that resulted in
  1 13 the record being made occurred more than 62 years prior to the
  1 14 request.  Current law requires the event to have occurred more
  1 15 than 75 years prior to the request.
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