Bill Text: IA HF483 | 2023-2024 | 90th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to an application for a reprieve, pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fines or forfeitures, or restoration of the rights of citizenship made to the board of parole.(See HF 637.)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-06 - Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 637. [HF483 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2023-HF483-Introduced.html
House File 483 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 483 BY GUSTOFF A BILL FOR An Act relating to an application for a reprieve, pardon, 1 commutation of sentence, remission of fines or forfeitures, 2 or restoration of the rights of citizenship made to the 3 board of parole. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 2378YH (3) 90 as/rh
H.F. 483 Section 1. Section 914.3, subsection 1, Code 2023, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 1. a. Except as otherwise provided in section 902.2 , the 3 board of parole shall periodically review all applications by 4 persons convicted of criminal offenses and shall recommend to 5 the governor the reprieve, pardon, commutation of sentence, 6 remission of fines or forfeitures, or restoration of the rights 7 of citizenship for persons who have by their conduct given 8 satisfactory evidence that they will become or continue to be 9 law-abiding citizens. 10 b. The board of parole shall acknowledge an application for 11 a reprieve, pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fines 12 or forfeitures, or restoration of the rights of citizenship 13 received from a person convicted of a criminal offense within 14 thirty days of receipt of the application. 15 c. The board of parole shall make a recommendation to the 16 governor concerning whether an application for a reprieve, 17 pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fines or 18 forfeitures, or restoration of the rights of citizenship should 19 be granted within three hundred sixty-five days of receipt of 20 the application. 21 EXPLANATION 22 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 23 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 24 This bill relates to an application for a reprieve, pardon, 25 commutation of sentence, remission of fines or forfeitures, or 26 restoration of the rights of citizenship made to the board of 27 parole. 28 The bill provides that the board of parole shall acknowledge 29 an application for a reprieve, pardon, commutation of sentence, 30 remission of fines or forfeitures, or restoration of the rights 31 of citizenship received from a person convicted of a criminal 32 offense within 30 days of receipt of the application, and shall 33 make a recommendation to the governor concerning whether an 34 application should be granted within 365 days of receipt of the 35 -1- LSB 2378YH (3) 90 as/rh 1/ 2
H.F. 483 application. 1 -2- LSB 2378YH (3) 90 as/rh 2/ 2
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