Bill Text: IA SF404 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the certification and regulation of shorthand reporters. (Formerly SSB 1089.) Effective 7-1-15.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-01 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 962. [SF404 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-SF404-Enrolled.html
Senate File 404 - Enrolled
SENATE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
(SUCCESSOR TO SSB
1089)
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A BILL FOR
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Senate File 404
AN ACT
RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATION AND REGULATION OF SHORTHAND
REPORTERS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section 602.3105, Code 2015, is amended to read
as follows:
602.3105 Applications.
Applications for certification shall be on forms prescribed
and furnished by the board and the board shall not require that
the application contain a photograph of the applicant. An
applicant shall not be denied certification because of age,
citizenship, sex, race, religion, marital status, or national
origin although the application may require citizenship
information. The board may consider the past felony record of
an applicant. Character references may be required, but shall
not be obtained from certified shorthand reporters.
Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 602.3108 Certification.
The board may issue a certificate to a person of good
moral character and fitness who makes application on a form
prescribed and furnished by the board and who satisfies the
education, experience, and examination requirements of this
article and rules prescribed by the supreme court pursuant to
this article. The board may consider the applicant's past
record of any felony conviction and the applicant's past
record of disciplinary action with respect to certification
as a shorthand reporter in any jurisdiction. The board
may deny certification if the board finds the applicant has
committed any of the acts listed in section 602.3203 or has
made a false statement of material fact on the application for
certification.
Sec. 3. Section 602.3203, Code 2015, is amended by adding
the following new subsection:
NEW SUBSECTION. 8. Noncompliance with section 602.3204.
Sec. 4. NEW SECTION. 602.3204 Transcript integrity.
A certified shorthand reporter taking a deposition, or any
other person with whom the certified shorthand reporter has a
principal=agent or employer=employee relationship, shall not
enter into an agreement for reporting services that requires
the certified shorthand reporter to relinquish control of an
original deposition transcript and copies of the transcript
before it is certified and delivered to the custodial attorney.
Sec. 5. NEW SECTION. 602.3205 Audio recordings.
1. Except as provided in subsection 2 or 3, a certified
shorthand reporter's audio recordings used solely for the
purpose of providing a verbatim written transcript of a court
proceeding or a proceeding conducted in anticipation of use in
a court proceeding shall be considered the personal property
and private work product of the certified shorthand reporter.
2. An audio recording of a certified shorthand reporter
appointed under section 602.6603 shall be provided to the
presiding judge or chief judge for an in=camera review upon
court order for good cause shown.
3. a. An audio recording of a certified shorthand reporter
shall be provided to the board upon request by the board if
a disciplinary proceeding is pending regarding the certified
shorthand reporter who is a respondent under the provisions
of section 602.3203 or the rules of the board of examiners of
shorthand reporters, Iowa court rules, ch. 46.
b. The audio recordings provided in this subsection shall
be kept confidential by the board in a manner as provided in
section 272C.6, subsection 4.
PAM JOCHUM
President of the Senate
KRAIG PAULSEN
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 404, Eighty=sixth General Assembly.
MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
Secretary of the Senate
Approved , 2015
TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor
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