IA HF2719

State commissioner of elections must collect and publish performance data on all district court judges, including district associate judges, juvenile judges, and probate judges, expressed as unadjusted numbers and adjusted percentile ranks.

Required metrics include bond-setting practices compared to schedules, frequency of releasing defendants on own recognizance for violent vs. nonviolent offenses, sentences lower than statutory or prosecutor recommendations, and grants of deferred judgments or suspended sentences.

Appellate reversal rates due to abuse of discretion or legal error must be tracked, along with average time from motion filing to ruling and case disposition rates compared to outstanding docket size.

Judicial branch must provide the state elections commissioner read-only access to Iowa court information system data within one year, with the state court administrator annually certifying accuracy between November 1 and December 31.

All performance data must be publicly downloadable in machine-readable format, with metrics based on small sample sizes required to display a boldface "RELIABILITY WARNING" notice.