Creating specialty probate courts

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 4, 2022
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 9, 2022
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeFebruary 16, 2022
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Became HF 2483 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 2483 What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to probate proceedings and instructs the Iowa supreme court to create specialty probate courts. One probate court shall be in the largest populated county, one in an eastern county, and the third one in a western county. Under current law, the probate code (Code chapter 633) allows a full-time associate probate judge to be appointed, but only one county is currently utilizing the option. The bill requires the establishment of two more probate courts that have a designated probate judge.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

House subcommittee

Named February 9, 2022. On February 15, 2022 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.

• Rep. Dustin D. Hite R
• Rep. Jon Jacobsen R
• Rep. Todd Prichard D

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Fiscal note

House File 2483 is estimated to have a cost of $516,000 to the Judicial Branch in FY 2023 and a cost of $687,000 each fiscal year after, as shown in Table 1 below. The Judicial Branch is funded from the State General Fund.

• Specialty Probate Courts · February 28, 2022

Nonpartisan cost estimates from the Legislative Services Agency’s Fiscal Services Division. The newest is first. Reading a fiscal note

Iowa Code it changes

Creates§602.6109

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Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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