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IA SF57

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/16/2025

Primary Sponsor

Lynn Evans

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Origin

Senate

91st General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Requires the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to reimburse counties at a rate of $50 per day when a sexually violent predator (SVP) under civil commitment is transferred to a county jail after committing a public offense

  • County reimbursement applies both during temporary holding while criminal proceedings are pending and during any subsequent sentence of confinement served at the county jail

  • HHS must fund reimbursements using appropriations designated for treatment and commitment of sexually violent predators at the state mental health institute at Cherokee, or through funds transferred under Code section 218.6

  • Amends Section 229A.5C, subsection 2 of the Iowa Code governing procedures when civilly committed SVPs commit new offenses

Legislative Description

A bill for an act requiring the department of health and human services to reimburse a county for the temporary holding of, or confinement of, a sexually violent predator who commits a public offense while subject to an order of civil commitment.(See SF 623.)

Last Action

Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 623. S.J. 801.

4/15/2025

Committee Referrals

Appropriations2/10/2025
Health and Human Services1/16/2025

Full Bill Text

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