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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 2483: Creating specialty probate courts

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 it does

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.

Sponsors

Judiciary committee

Cost

Cost: up to $687,000

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.

Lobbying · 4 for, 0 against

For: AARP Iowa; Iowa State Bar Association; Personal Interest -Bill Gustoff; The Iowa Academy of Trust and Estate Counsel

In plain words

  1. February 18, 2022Filed in the House
  2. February 28, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/HF2483