Relating to tampering with witnesses or jurors, and providing penalties

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 30, 2023
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   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 31, 2023
3. ✓
   Done: Senate committeeFebruary 15, 2023
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

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What’s in it

This bill relates to tampering with witnesses or jurors, and provides penalties. Current law provides that a person who tampers with a witness or juror commits an aggravated misdemeanor. 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. The bill provides that a person who tampers with a witness or juror commits a class “B” felony. A class “B” felony is punishable by confinement for no more than years.

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

Senate subcommittee

Named January 31, 2023. On February 9, 2023 it recommended amendment and passage. [].

• Sen. Jeff Reichman REmail
• Sen. Tony Bisignano DEmail
• Sen. Mike Bousselot REmail

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Fiscal note

Senate File 287 is estimated to increase costs to the DOC by approximately $64,000 per group of individuals who are admitted to DOC supervision each year for this offense, as shown in

• Intimidation of Witnesses · February 21, 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

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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 2226 Relating to tampering with witnesses or jurors, and providing penalties
  89th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 2472 · same title
  Cleared committee
• HF 2472 Relating to tampering with witnesses or jurors, and providing penalties
  89th General Assembly · Passed House · 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.