Monday, April 16, 2007
Governor Culver Signed The Following Legislation Today
(DES MOINES) Governor Chet Culver today signed the following legislation. These eleven bills are in addition to Senate File 480, which was signed in a ceremony earlier today.
Senate File 41: SF 41 relates to the disposition of unclaimed property concerning minerals.
Senate File 42: SF 42 is a Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board bill that changes the deadline requirements for campaign disclosure reports, exempts not-for-profit organizations from the ban on “expressly advocating” for elections within its own membership, and directs the Board to investigate “sham newspapers”.
Senate File 140: SF 140 deals with the time period for which peace officers’ investigative reports and specific portions of electronic mail and telephone billing records are to be kept confidential.
Senate File 161: Senate File 161 relates to the confidentiality of security procedures or emergency preparedness information discussed at a meeting of a governmental body and providing an effective date.
Senate File 200: SF 200 provides for habitual trespass when livestock trespass from the land where they are kept onto the same neighbor’s land or the same public road on three or more occasions within a 12-month period.
Senate File 351: SF 351 requires a political committee expressly advocating the passage of a ballot issue to file five disclosure reports in an election year.
Senate File 477: SF 477 increases the nonresident any-sex special deer tags from 25 per year to 75 per year.
House File 298: HF 298 eliminates, only when dealing through a power of attorney, the requirement that the married spouse of a person who conveys or encumbers a homestead must, in the conveyance instrument or through a power of attorney, set out the legal description of the homestead.
House File 314: HF 314 relates to a peace officer's statements to a person operating a noncommercial motor vehicle and holding a commercial driver's license who has been requested to submit to a chemical test in an operating-while-intoxicated case.
House File 610: House File 610 updates Iowa Code Chapter 141A, AIDS. The majority of the revisions are technical changes to update language to reflect current terminology and accurately reflect current protocols.
House File 777: HF 777 is a Judicial Branch bill that relates to practices and procedures dealing with adoption petitions, clerk of the district court duties, and recordkeeping.