Bill Text: IA HF530 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to state mandates on counties, including provisions related to county medical examiner fees and the publication of county resolutions. (Formerly HSB 159) (See Cmte. Bill HF 2446)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-11 - Withdrawn. H.J. 624. [HF530 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF530-Introduced.html

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House File 530 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON STATE
                                     GOVERNMENT

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 159)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to state mandates on counties, including
  2    provisions related to county medical examiner fees and the
  3    publication of county resolutions.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 331.802, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code
  1  2 2015, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    b.  Except as provided in section 218.64 or as otherwise
  1  4 provided by law, for each preliminary investigation and the
  1  5 preparation and submission of the required reports, the county
  1  6 medical examiner shall receive from the county of appointment
  1  7  the decedent's residence a fee determined by the board plus
  1  8 the examiner's actual expenses. The fee and expenses paid
  1  9 by shall be submitted by the county medical examiner as an
  1 10 invoice to the county of appointment which shall be reimbursed
  1 11 to the county of appointment by the county of the person's
  1 12 residence forward the county medical examiner's invoice to the
  1 13 decedent's county of residence for payment. However, if If the
  1 14 person's death is caused by a defendant for whom a judgment of
  1 15 conviction and sentence is rendered under section 707.2, 707.3,
  1 16 707.4, 707.5, or 707.6A, the county of the person's residence
  1 17 may recover from the defendant the fee and expenses.
  1 18    Sec. 2.  Section 349.16, subsection 1, Code 2015, is amended
  1 19 to read as follows:
  1 20    1.  The proceedings of the board of supervisors, as furnished
  1 21 by the county auditor, excluding from the publication of said
  1 22 proceedings, its canvass of the various elections, as provided
  1 23 by law; witness fees of witnesses before the grand jury and in
  1 24 the district court in criminal cases.
  1 25    Sec. 3.  Section 349.18, subsection 3, Code 2015, is amended
  1 26 to read as follows:
  1 27    3.  The county auditor shall furnish a copy of the
  1 28 proceedings to be published, within one week following the
  1 29 adjournment of the board.  The county auditor shall include
  1 30 either a summary of all resolutions or the complete text of
  1 31 resolutions adopted by the board in the furnished copy of the
  1 32 proceedings.  As used in this subsection, "summary" means a
  1 33 narrative description of the resolution setting forth the main
  1 34 points of the resolution in a manner calculated to inform
  1 35 the public in a clear and understandable manner the meaning
  2  1 of the resolution and to provide the public with sufficient
  2  2 notice of the policy stated or action to be taken, as resolved
  2  3 by the board in the resolution.  The narrative description
  2  4 shall include the title of the resolution, an accurate and
  2  5 intelligible synopsis of the essential elements of the
  2  6 resolution, a statement that the description is a summary, the
  2  7 location and the normal business hours of the office where the
  2  8 full text of the resolution may be inspected, and the effective
  2  9 date of the resolution.  Legal descriptions of property
  2 10 set forth in a resolution shall be described in full.  The
  2 11 narrative description shall be written in a clear and coherent
  2 12 manner and shall, to the extent possible, avoid the use of
  2 13 technical or legal terms not generally familiar to the public.
  2 14 When necessary to use technical or legal terms not generally
  2 15 familiar to the public, the narrative description shall include
  2 16 definitions of those terms.
  2 17                           EXPLANATION
  2 18 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  2 19 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  2 20    This bill relates to state mandates on counties, including
  2 21 provisions related to county medical examiner fees and the
  2 22 publication of county resolutions.
  2 23    Relating to county medical examiner fees, the bill requires
  2 24 that a county medical examiner's office receive a fee and
  2 25 certain expenses for conducting a preliminary investigation of
  2 26 a death affecting the public interest, as specified in current
  2 27 law, from a decedent's county of residence.  The bill requires
  2 28 that the fee and expenses be submitted by the county medical
  2 29 examiner to the county of appointment in an invoice, and that
  2 30 the county of appointment shall forward that invoice to the
  2 31 decedent's county of residence for payment.
  2 32    Relating to the publication of county resolutions, current
  2 33 law requires that all proceedings of each regular, adjourned,
  2 34 or special meeting of a board of supervisors be published
  2 35 immediately after the adjournment of the meeting and that the
  3  1 county auditor, serving as clerk to the board, furnish a copy
  3  2 of the proceedings to the board for publication within one week
  3  3 following the adjournment of the board. The bill requires that
  3  4 the county auditor include either a summary of all resolutions
  3  5 or the complete text of resolutions adopted by the board, for
  3  6 the purposes of furnishing such proceedings for publication.
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