Bill Text: IA HF2457 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to appropriations to the judicial branch.
Sponsorship: Committee Bill
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2016-05-04 - Sent to Governor. H.J. 999. [HF2457 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-HF2457-Enrolled.html
House File 2457 - Enrolled
HOUSE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON
APPROPRIATIONS
(SUCCESSOR TO LSB
5016HB)
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A BILL FOR
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House File 2457
AN ACT
RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS TO THE JUDICIAL BRANCH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. 2015 Iowa Acts, chapter 134, section 6, is
amended to read as follows:
SEC. 6. JUDICIAL BRANCH.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
to the judicial branch for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
2016, and ending June 30, 2017, the following amounts, or so
much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
designated:
a. For salaries of supreme court justices, appellate court
judges, district court judges, district associate judges,
associate juvenile judges, associate probate judges, judicial
magistrates and staff, state court administrator, clerk of the
supreme court, district court administrators, clerks of the
district court, juvenile court officers, board of law examiners
and board of examiners of shorthand reporters and judicial
qualifications commission; receipt and disbursement of child
support payments; reimbursement of the auditor of state for
expenses incurred in completing audits of the offices of the
clerks of the district court during the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 2016; and maintenance, equipment, and miscellaneous
purposes:
.................................................. $ 85,743,306
178,686,612
b. For deposit in the revolving fund created pursuant to
section 602.1302, subsection 3, for jury and witness fees,
mileage, costs related to summoning jurors, costs and fees for
interpreters and translators, and reimbursement of attorney
fees paid by the state public defender:
.................................................. $ 1,550,000
3,100,000
2. The judicial branch, except for purposes of internal
processing, shall use the current state budget system, the
state payroll system, and the Iowa finance and accounting
system in administration of programs and payments for services,
and shall not duplicate the state payroll, accounting, and
budgeting systems.
3. The judicial branch shall submit monthly financial
statements to the legislative services agency and the
department of management containing all appropriated accounts
in the same manner as provided in the monthly financial status
reports and personal services usage reports of the department
of administrative services. The monthly financial statements
shall include a comparison of the dollars and percentage
spent of budgeted versus actual revenues and expenditures on
a cumulative basis for full=time equivalent positions and
dollars.
4. The judicial branch shall focus efforts upon the
collection of delinquent fines, penalties, court costs, fees,
surcharges, or similar amounts.
5. It is the intent of the general assembly that the offices
of the clerks of the district court operate in all 99 counties
and be accessible to the public as much as is reasonably
possible in order to address the relative needs of the citizens
of each county.
6. In addition to the requirements for transfers under
section 8.39, the judicial branch shall not change the
appropriations from the amounts appropriated to the judicial
branch in this division of this Act, unless notice of the
revisions is given prior to their effective date to the
legislative services agency. The notice shall include
information on the branch's rationale for making the changes
and details concerning the workload and performance measures
upon which the changes are based.
7. The judicial branch shall submit a semiannual update
to the legislative services agency specifying the amounts of
fines, surcharges, and court costs collected using the Iowa
court information system since the last report. The judicial
branch shall continue to facilitate the sharing of vital
sentencing and other information with other state departments
and governmental agencies involved in the criminal justice
system through the Iowa court information system.
8. The judicial branch shall provide a report to the general
assembly by January 1, 2017, concerning the amounts received
and expended from the enhanced court collections fund created
in section 602.1304 and the court technology and modernization
fund created in section 602.8108, subsection 7, during the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016,
and the plans for expenditures from each fund during the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2016, and ending June 30, 2017. A copy
of the report shall be provided to the legislative services
agency.
9. The judicial branch shall emphasize the expansion of
family treatment courts on a statewide basis.
Sec. 2. ENHANCED COURT COLLECTIONS FUND AND COURT
TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNIZATION FUND. Notwithstanding section
602.1304, subsection 2, paragraph "c", and section 602.8108,
subsection 9, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, and
ending June 30, 2017, in addition to the purposes specified
in section 602.1304, subsection 2, paragraph "c", and in
section 602.8108, subsection 9, the moneys in the funds may be
used by the judicial branch for operational costs and other
miscellaneous purposes and duties.
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 2457, Eighty=sixth General Assembly.
CARMINE BOAL
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved , 2016
TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor
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