HSB 635

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 29, 2024
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 30, 2024
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeFebruary 8, 2024
4. –
   Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 2453
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Became HF 2453 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 2453 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.

Full bill text¹

House subcommittee

Named January 30, 2024. On February 6, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.

• Rep. Bobby Kaufmann REmail
• Rep. Megan L. Srinivas DEmail
• Rep. John H. Wills REmail

Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part

Fiscal note

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

Reading a fiscal note²

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§907.3

How the Code works³

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Tried before

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

• HSB 601 HSB 601
  89th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · very similar
  Cleared committee

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• SSB 1017 SSB 1017
  90th General Assembly · In committee
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• 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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