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Relating to tampering with witnesses or jurors, and providing penalties
Sponsored by the Senate Judiciary Committee
Topics:Courts & civil law
Same legislation: SF 166
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 30, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 31, 2023
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 15, 2023
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
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 public offense that shall be classified and punished as an offense one degree higher than the underlying offense. In no case shall the public offense be classified and punished lower than an aggravated misdemeanor.
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 11, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Fiscal note
Cost: up to $64,000 Compare with other bills
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
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 · 6 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
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.