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Relating to tampering with witnesses or jurors, and providing penalties
Topics:Courts & civil law
Same legislation: HF 399
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 9, 2023
- Done: House committeeFebruary 21, 2023
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 399
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
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What’s in it
This bill relates to tampering with witnesses or jurors. Current law provides that a person who offers a bribe, makes threats, or improperly detains or restrains another person who the person believes has been or will be summoned as a witness or juror in any judicial or arbitration proceeding or legislative hearing for the purpose of influencing or preventing the other person’s testimony or preventing the other person from serving as a juror on the case, commits an aggravated misdemeanor. The bill increases the penalty for tampering with a witness or juror to a class “C” felony.
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An aggravated misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than two years and a fine of at least $855 but not more than $8,540. A class “C” felony is punishable by confinement for no more than years and a fine of at least $1,370 but not more than $13,660.
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, 2023. On February 15, 2023 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 2-1.
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Fiscal note
House File 399 is estimated to increase costs to the DOC by at least $151,000 per group of individuals admitted to DOC supervision each year for this offense, as shown in Table 1. This cost is incurred across the entire LOS. Table 1 represents the cost of all individuals admitted to DOC supervision for this offense in one year. This cost would recur for each annual group of admissions.
- Witness Tampering, Penalties · February 27, 2023
Nonpartisan cost estimates from the Legislative Services Agency’s Fiscal Services Division. The newest is first. Reading a fiscal note
Iowa Code it changes
Amends§720.4
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 · 1 against · 2 undecided · Who →
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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 2226 Relating to tampering with witnesses or jurors, and providing penalties89th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 2472 · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2472 Relating to tampering with witnesses or jurors, and providing penalties89th General Assembly · Passed House · same titlePassed a chamber
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