Bill Text: IA HF2495 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to appropriations to the judicial branch. (Formerly HSB 693.) Effective 7-1-18.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-06-01 - NOBA: Graybook [HF2495 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF2495-Enrolled.html

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House File 2495 - Enrolled




                              HOUSE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON
                                  APPROPRIATIONS

                              (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 693)
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                                   A BILL FOR
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                                        House File 2495

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS TO THE JUDICIAL BRANCH.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  2017 Iowa Acts, chapter 166, section 9, is
 amended to read as follows:
    SEC. 9.  JUDICIAL BRANCH.
    1.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
 to the judicial branch for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
 2018, and ending June 30, 2019, 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, 2018; and maintenance, equipment, and miscellaneous
 purposes:
 .................................................. $ 87,843,306
                                                     177,574,797
    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, 2019, 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 9, during the
 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018,
 and the plans for expenditures from each fund during the fiscal
 year beginning July 1, 2018, and ending June 30, 2019. A copy
 of the report shall be provided to the legislative services
 agency.


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            CHARLES SCHNEIDE


                                                                                            CARMINE BOAL


                                                                                            KIM REYNOLDS

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