Bill Text: IA HF2035 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the status of employees of the judicial district departments of correctional services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-18 - Introduced, referred to Judiciary. H.J. 113. [HF2035 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF2035-Introduced.html

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House File 2035 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  PRICHARD

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the status of employees of the judicial
  2    district departments of correctional services.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 905.2, Code 2018, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    905.2  District departments established.
  1  4    There is established in each judicial district in this state
  1  5 a public agency to be known as the "........ judicial district
  1  6 department of correctional services."  Each district department
  1  7 shall furnish or contract for those services necessary to
  1  8 provide a community=based correctional program which meets
  1  9 the needs of that judicial district. The district department
  1 10 is under the direction of a board of directors, selected as
  1 11 provided in section 905.3, and shall be administered by a
  1 12 director employed by the board. A district department is a
  1 13 state agency for purposes of chapter 669, and the employees of
  1 14 each district shall be considered employees of the state and
  1 15 shall be covered by the merit system provisions of chapter 8A,
  1 16 subchapter IV, or under the appropriate collective bargaining
  1 17 agreement.
  1 18                           EXPLANATION
  1 19 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 20 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 21    This bill relates to the employees of the judicial district
  1 22 department of correctional services (district department). The
  1 23 bill specifies that the employees of each district department
  1 24 shall be considered employees of the state and shall be covered
  1 25 by the state merit system or under the appropriate collective
  1 26 bargaining unit.
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