| LAWS OF THE 2001 REGULAR SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA |
Section 1. Section 232.68, subsection 2, Code 2001, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
NEW PARAGRAPH. g. The commission of bestiality in the presence of a minor under section 717C.1 by a person who resides in a home with a child, as a result of the acts or omissions of a person responsible for the care of the child.
Sec. 2. Section 704.8, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
704.8 ESCAPE FROM PLACE OF CONFINEMENT.
A correctional officer or peace officer is justified in using reasonable force,
including deadly force, which is necessary to prevent the escape of any person from any jail,
penal institution, correctional facility, or similar place of confinement, or place of trial or
other judicial proceeding, or to prevent the escape from custody of any person who is being
transported from any such place of confinement, trial or judicial proceeding to any other
such place, except that deadly force may not be used to prevent the escape of one who the
correctional officer or peace officer knows
or should know
is confined on a charge or conviction
of any class of misdemeanor.
Sec. 3. NEW SECTION. 717C.1 BESTIALITY.
1. For purposes of this section:
a. "Animal" means any nonhuman vertebrate, either dead or alive.
b. "Sex act" means any sexual contact between a person and an animal by penetration of the penis into the vagina or anus, contact between the mouth and genitalia, or by contact between the genitalia of one and the genitalia or anus of the other.
2. A person who performs a sex act with an animal, is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor.
3. Upon a conviction for a violation of this section, and in addition to any sentence authorized by law, the court shall require the person to submit to a psychological evaluation and treatment at the person's expense.
Sec. 4. Section 904.202, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
904.202 INTAKE AND CLASSIFICATION CENTER.
The director may provide facilities and personnel for a diagnostic intake and
classification center. The work of the center shall include a scientific study of each inmate,
the inmate's career and life history, the causes of the inmate's criminal acts and
recommendations for the inmate's custody, care, training, employment, and counseling with a view
to rehabilitation and to the protection of society. To facilitate the work of the center and to
aid in the rehabilitation of the inmates, the trial judge, prosecuting attorney, and
presentence investigators shall furnish the director
upon request
with any previously authorized
presentence investigation report and a full statement of facts and circumstances attending
the commission of the offense so far as known or believed by them. If the department
develops and utilizes an inmate classification system, it must, within a reasonable time,
present evidence from independent experts as to the effectiveness and validity of the
classification system.
Sec. 5. NEW SECTION. 904.303A TRAINING FUND.
A training fund is established under the control of the department. The director shall provide training to all new officers or employees of the department free of charge. The department shall also offer in-service training which shall include classes for officers and employees in the areas of safety, first aid, emergency preparedness, and any other appropriate class determined by the director. Employees of a judicial district may also attend any in-service training offered by the department. The department may recover from the correctional institution or judicial district, the actual costs of planning and conducting the training classes, if an employee of the institution or judicial district attends an in-service training class. The costs that may be recovered by the department include the costs of course development, training materials, equipment and facility rental, instruction, and administration. Moneys received as reimbursement of the costs shall be deposited in the training fund for use in conducting future training classes. All cost reimbursement moneys, grants, or appropriations related to training shall be deposited in the fund. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys remaining in the training fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund of the state. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, interest and earnings deposited in the training fund shall be credited to the training fund.
Sec. 6. Section 904.310, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
904.310 CANTEENS.
The director may maintain a canteen at an institution under the director's jurisdiction
for the sale to persons confined in the institution of items such as toilet articles, candy,
tobacco products, notions, and other sundries, and may provide the necessary facilities, equipment, personnel,
and merchandise for the canteen. The director shall specify the items to be sold in the canteen. The department
may establish and maintain a permanent operating fund for each canteen. The fund shall consist of the receipts
from the sale of commodities at the canteen and donations designated by inmates for reimbursement of victims'
travel expenses. Any money in the fund over the amount needed to do normal business transactions,
and
to reimburse any accounts which have subsidized the canteen
fund, and to reimburse victims' travel
expenses, shall be considered profit. This money may remain in the canteen fund and be used for any purchase which
the superintendent approves that will directly and collectively benefit the inmates of the institution
or to reimburse victims' travel expenses.
Sec. 7. Section 904.405, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
904.405 TRANSCRIPT OF TESTIMONY.
The director shall cause the testimony taken at the investigation to be
transcribed and
recorded. The recording of the testimony shall not be transcribed unless the testimony
is part of a case that is appealed or an interested party requests a transcript and pays the
cost of preparing the transcript. The recording of the testimony, or the transcription
thereof, shall be filed and maintained in the director's office at the seat of government
within ten days after the testimony is taken, or as soon as practicable, and when filed the
testimony shall be open for the inspection of any
person
for at least five years from the date
the testimony is taken or the date of a final decision in a case involving the testimony,
whichever is later. However, a recording of testimony involving any employee of the
department shall continue to be filed and maintained until the employee no longer is employed by
the department.
Approved May 16, 2001
Updated: 29-Oct-2001 01:26 PM
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