Bill Text: IA HF2284 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the statute of limitations period for executing judgments on claims for rent. (Formerly HSB 542.)

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-14 - Senate amendment H-8263 filed. H.J. 591. [HF2284 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF2284-Amended.html

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House File 2284 - Reprinted




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 542)
       (As Amended and Passed by the House March 7, 2018)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the statute of limitations period for
  2    executing judgments on claims for rent.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 615.1A, Code 2018, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    615.1A  Execution on judgment == claim for rent.
  1  4    After the expiration of a period of five ten years from the
  1  5 date of entry of judgment of a court not of record, or twenty
  1  6 years from the date of entry of judgment of a court of record,
  1  7  in an action on a claim for rent, exclusive of any time during
  1  8 which execution on the judgment was stayed pending a bankruptcy
  1  9 action or order of court, such judgment shall be null and void,
  1 10 all liens shall be extinguished, and no execution shall be
  1 11 issued. However, in the event that the judgment or the right
  1 12 to collect thereon is sold or otherwise assigned for value to
  1 13 a third party other than a state or federally chartered bank
  1 14 or credit union, such judgment shall be null and void, all
  1 15 liens shall be extinguished, and no execution shall be issued
  1 16 after the expiration of two years from the date of entry of the
  1 17 judgment, exclusive of any time during which execution on the
  1 18 judgment was stayed pending a bankruptcy action or order of
  1 19 court.
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