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SF 615Signed with item vetoes · May 22, 2019

Relating to appropriations to the justice system, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. Item vetoed. Various effective dates; see sections 23, 30, 33, and 37 of bill

Sponsored by the Senate Appropriations Committee

Topics:State budget

Same legislation: SSB 1255

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedApril 8, 2019
  2. Skipped: SubcommitteeSkipped
  3. Done: Senate committeeApril 8, 2019
  4. Done: Passes the SenateApril 15, 201932–18
  5. Done: House committeeApril 18, 2019
  6. Done: Passes the HouseApril 23, 2019
  7. Done: To the GovernorMay 6, 2019
  8. Done: Signed into lawMay 22, 2019

Signed with item vetoes Became law, with some items vetoed by the Governor. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary This bill provides funding for several state agencies, including the departments of justice, corrections, and public safety. It gives the attorney general new rules for reporting money won in court settlements and increases funding to fight consumer fraud. Additionally, it creates a new fund for fire service training and extends a program that lets people who cannot afford a lawyer choose their own attorney.1

Read the official explanation

This bill relates to and makes appropriations to the justice system. The bill is organized by divisions. FY 2019-2020 APPROPRIATIONS. The bill makes appropriations from the general fund of the state for fiscal year 2019-2020 to the departments of justice, corrections, public defense, public safety, and homeland security and emergency management, and the Iowa law enforcement academy, office of the state public defender, board of parole, Iowa state civil rights commission, and the criminal and juvenile justice planning division of the department of human rights. The bill appropriates moneys from the department of commerce revolving fund to the office of consumer advocate of the department of justice for fiscal year 2019-2020. The bill also appropriates moneys from the gaming enforcement revolving fund to the department of public safety for fiscal year 2019-2020. The bill appropriates moneys from the wireless E911 emergency communications fund to the department of homeland security and emergency management for fiscal year 2019-2020. The bill appropriates moneys from the consumer education and litigation fund to the department of justice for farm mediation services and salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes for criminal prosecuting, criminal appeals, and performing duties for fiscal year 2019-2020. SUPPLEMENTAL AND MISCELLANEOUS APPROPRIATIONS. The bill appropriates moneys to the state public defender and the Iowa law enforcement academy for the fiscal year 2018-2019. The division is effective upon enactment. ATTORNEY GENERAL. The bill provides that the attorney general shall report to the legislative services agency and the department of management all money settlements and court money awards which were awarded to the state of Iowa. The bill provides that the attorney general shall report which funds are designated to receive the moneys and under what legal authority the designation is being made.2, subsection 1, paragraph “g”, by striking the paragraph, which required a condition of the attorney general report shall be provided to the governor.6C.16 and federal consumer laws. It also increases the annual appropriations from $75,000 to $125,000 from the consumer education and litigation fund to the department of justice to be used for investigation, prosecution, and consumer education relating to consumer and criminal fraud committed against older Iowans. FIRE SERVICE TRAINING REVOLVING FUND. The bill creates a fire service training revolving fund and appropriates moneys in the fund to the department of public safety and provides that the moneys shall be under the control of the state fire marshal. The division is effective upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2018. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS. The bill provides that the department of corrections may use general fund resources appropriated to the department for fiscal year 2018-2019 for the resolution of the settlement agreement with the division of labor services to remedy the citation by providing adequate means of communication for employees to summon assistance during violent attacks. The division is effective upon enactment. INDIGENT DEFENSE. The bill provides for the extension of the state public defender pilot project allowing an indigent person to choose an eligible attorney to represent the person in the person’s case that requires such representation, extending the completion date of that project from June 30, 2019, to June 30, 2022. The division is effective upon enactment.

Changed since by amendments H-1271, S-3159; see Amendments.

Full bill text · What changed before it passed2

House subcommittee

Named April 17, 2019. On April 17, 2019 it recommended amendment and passage.

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Iowa Code it changes

Creates§13.12

Amends§100B.4

Repeals§7A.6

How the Code works3

Lobbying

4 for · 1 against · 34 undecided · Who →

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