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. ✕
   Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. 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

Fiscal note

Cost: up to $687,000 Compare with other bills

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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