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SF 2235Died when the session ended · February 9, 2022

Relating to excuse from jury service for persons at least seventy-two years of age

Sponsored by the Senate Judiciary Committee

Topics:Courts & civil law

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 9, 2022
  2. Skipped: SubcommitteeSkipped
  3. Done: Senate committeeFebruary 9, 2022
  4. Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  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 automatic excuses from jury service. The bill provides that a person shall be excused from jury service if the person is at least years of age and notifies the court that the person is at least years of age and wishes to be exempted from jury service.

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

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§607A.5

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

Lobbying

1 for · 2 against · 3 undecided · Who →

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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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.

  • HF 108 Relating to excuse from jury service for persons at least seventy-two years of age
    88th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same title
    Cleared committee
  • SF 344 Relating to excuse from jury service for persons at least seventy-two years of age
    88th General Assembly · Passed Senate · same title
    Passed a chamber

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.