Relating to judicial officer salaries, and including effective date provisions

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 13, 2025
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   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 13, 2025
3. ✕
   Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

_____ This bill relates to judicial officer salaries. Under current law, the general assembly determines the salaries of judicial officers by enacting the salaries in annual appropriations bills. The bill instead creates a formula to calculate judicial officer salaries. The bill requires the judicial officer salaries to be paid from the moneys appropriated to the judicial branch in a given fiscal year.6402 (additional magistrate allowed); and a senior judge, percent. The bill allows the supreme court to provide lower salaries for judicial officers if the supreme court decides that the moneys appropriated in a given fiscal year are not sufficient to provide the full allowable salaries for judicial officers, or if other good cause exists.

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 February 13, 2025. On February 20, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Brian K. Lohse REmail
• Rep. Steven C. Holt REmail
• Rep. Rick L. Olson DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§602.1501§602.9104§602.9204

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works