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Relating to city civil service employees and related procedures and including effective date provisions
Sponsored by the Senate Local Government (successor To Sf 231) Committee
Topics:Cities & counties
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 13, 2023
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 28, 2023
- Done: Passes the SenateMarch 4, 202437–9
- Done: House committeeMarch 12, 2024
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: To the Governor
- 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 relates to city civil service. The bill prohibits a city with a civil service commission established under Code chapter 400 from adopting, enforcing, or otherwise administering an ordinance, motion, resolution, or amendment, or using any other means, to establish a board or other entity for the purpose of citizen review of the conduct of police officers. The bill strikes language authorizing a city council to establish, by ordinance, the number of civil service commissioners at not less than three in a city having a population of more than 70,000.
Read the full explanation
The bill requires a city council in a city having a population of more than 50,000 to establish, by ordinance, the number of civil service commissioners at not less than five and not more than seven. The bill modifies standards and procedures for the removal, discharge, demotion, or suspension of a city civil service employee. The bill modifies standards and procedures for appeals of such actions to a city civil service commission, including procedures and standards for hearings on such appeals and procedures applicable before such hearings are held. The bill also modifies standards and procedures for appeal of such decisions by a city civil service commission to the district court, including modifying the applicable scope of review and providing for reasonable attorney fees, expert fees, and costs and expenses to be awarded to a city civil service employee who substantially prevails in such an appeal. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
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 March 6, 2024. On March 7, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 2-1.
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Fiscal note
The potential fiscal impact of the Bill is illustrated in Figure 1, which shows a range based on the number of annual trials statewide attributed to the Bill.
- Civil Service · March 20, 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
Creates§400.22A
Amends§364.3§400.1§400.18§400.19§400.23§400.24§400.26§400.27
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Lobbying
4 for · 11 against · 14 undecided · Who →
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Similar bills
- HSB 82 Relating to city civil service employees and related procedures and including effective da…91st General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 641Nearly identical
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