Bill Text: IA HF2446 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to county medical examiner fees. (Formerly HF 530) (Formerly HSB 159)

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2016-05-04 - Sent to Governor. H.J. 999. [HF2446 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF2446-Enrolled.html

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House File 2446 - Enrolled




                              HOUSE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND
                                  MEANS

                              (SUCCESSOR TO HF 530)
                              (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 159)
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                                   A BILL FOR
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                                        House File 2446

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER FEES.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 331.802, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code
 2016, is amended to read as follows:
    b.  (1)  Except as provided in section 218.64 or as otherwise
 provided by law, for each preliminary investigation and the
 preparation and submission of the required reports, the county
 medical examiner and medical examiner investigator shall
 receive from the county of appointment or the decedent's county
 of residence a fee determined by the board of the county of
 appointment plus the examiner's and investigator's actual
 expenses.
    (2)  The fee and expenses paid by shall be submitted by the
 county medical examiner and the medical examiner investigator
 as a joint invoice to the county of appointment shall be
 reimbursed to the county of appointment by the county of the
 person's residence which may immediately pay the invoice. If
 the county of appointment pays the invoice, the county of
 appointment shall seek reimbursement from the decedent's county
 of residence.
    (3)  If the county of appointment elects not to pay an
 invoice under subparagraph (2), the county shall forward
 the joint invoice to the decedent's county of residence for
 payment to the county medical examiner and the medical examiner
 investigator. If the county medical examiner and medical
 examiner investigator do not receive payment from the county
 of the decedent's residence within sixty days of receiving the
 joint invoice, the county of appointment shall pay the invoice.
    (4)  However, if If the person's death is caused by a
 defendant for whom a judgment of conviction and sentence
 is rendered under section 707.2, 707.3, 707.4, 707.5, or
 707.6A, the county of the person's residence or the county of
 appointment, as applicable, may recover from the defendant the
 fee and expenses.


                                                             
                               LINDA UPMEYER
                               Speaker of the House


                                                             
                               PAM JOCHUM
                               President of the Senate
    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
 is known as House File 2446, Eighty=sixth General Assembly.


                                                             
                               CARMINE BOAL
                               Chief Clerk of the House
 Approved                , 2016


                                                             
                               TERRY E. BRANSTAD
                               Governor

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