Relating to the penalty for public employees and public officials taking money from a public employer

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 29, 2024
2. –
   Skipped: SubcommitteeSkipped
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeFebruary 14, 2024
4. ✓
   Done: Passes the HouseFebruary 29, 202495–0
5. ✓
   Done: Senate committeeMarch 14, 2024
6. ✕
   Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill prohibits a sentencing court from deferring the judgment or deferring the sentence of a defendant if the defendant was a public employee or public official at the time of the offense and the amount of money taken by the public employee or public official in connection with the offense exceeded $7,500. The bill prohibits a sentencing court from suspending the sentence of a defendant if the defendant was a public employee or public official at the time of the offense and the amount of money taken by the public employee or public official in connection with the offense exceeded $7,500 unless the defendant establishes, by clear and convincing evidence, and the sentencing court finds and states specifically on the record, that mitigating circumstances exist warranting a departure from the otherwise mandatory minimum term of incarceration.

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

Minimal Compare with other bills

House File 2453 is estimated to have a minimal fiscal impact to the State.

• Theft, Enhanced Penalties · February 28, 2024
• Theft of Public Funds · February 26, 2024

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§907.3

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

• HF 2436 Relating to the penalty for public employees and public officials taking money from a publ…
  88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same title
  Cleared committee

Similar bills this General Assembly

• HF 2574 Relating to the penalty for public employees and public officials taking money from a publ…
  91st General Assembly · Approved by committee
  Very similar

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