Bill Text: IA SF149 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the administration of combined guardianship and conservatorship proceedings. (Formerly SSB 1024.)

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-24 - Withdrawn. S.J. 363. [SF149 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF149-Introduced.html

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Senate File 149 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                     1024)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the administration of combined guardianship
  2    and conservatorship proceedings.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 633.27A, Code 2015, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    633.27A  Docketing guardianship and conservatorship
  1  4 proceedings == applicability of separate reporting requirements.
  1  5    When a petition is filed for a conservatorship or
  1  6 guardianship, or a combined petition as provided in section
  1  7 633.627, the administration thereof shall be treated as a
  1  8 separate one proceeding, with a separate one docket number,
  1  9 from the date of the filing of the petition.  The separate
  1 10 reporting requirements for conservatorships and guardianships
  1 11 shall continue to apply in a combined petition. The clerk
  1 12 shall clearly indicate on the docket whether the proceedings
  1 13 are voluntary or involuntary and whether a guardianship, a
  1 14 conservatorship, or combined.
  1 15                           EXPLANATION
  1 16 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 17 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 18    Under current law, the administration of a combined petition
  1 19 for a conservatorship and a guardianship is treated as separate
  1 20 proceedings with separate docket numbers. This bill amends
  1 21 current law so that a combined petition for a conservatorship
  1 22 and a guardianship is treated as one proceeding, with
  1 23 one docket number. The bill also provides that while a
  1 24 combined petition for a conservatorship and a guardianship is
  1 25 administered in the same proceeding, the separate reporting
  1 26 requirements applicable to conservatorships and guardianships
  1 27 each apply.
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