Relating to the collection of delinquent judgments owed to a county or city, and including effective date provisions

This bill relates to the collection of judgment debt owed to a county or city. Under current law, a penalty or forfeiture collected by a court for a county or city infraction is remitted to the respective county or city. A city may contract with a private collection designee for the collection of a judgment debt days after the judgment debt in a case is deemed delinquent. The bill allows a county attorney or the county attorney’s designee to collect judgment debt that has not been paid days after the judgment debt has been deemed delinquent. The bill also allows a county or city to establish a debt collection setoff procedure for purposes of collecting delinquent judgment debt.65 (setoff procedures —— department of revenue) takes effect on the effective date of the rules, other than transitional rules, adopted by the department of revenue pursuant to Code chapter 17A implementing 2020 Iowa Acts, chapter 1064.