Iowa legislation · 91st General Assembly
Iowa SF362: A BILL FOR An Act relating to administrative investigations under the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, civil service disciplinary hearings and appeals, and communications in professional confidence, and including effective date provisions
Status: In committee, March 4, 2025
An Act relating to administrative investigations under the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, civil service disciplinary hearings and appeals, and communications in professional confidence, and including effective date provisions.
What the bill says
A bill FOR An Act relating to administrative investigations under the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, civil service disciplinary hearings and appeals, and communications in professional confidence, and including effective date provisions.
From the introduced text, February 18, 2025:
A BILL FOR An Act relating to administrative investigations under the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, civil service disciplinary hearings and appeals, and communications in professional confidence, and including effective date provisions. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 2457XS (4) as/js S.F. Section 1. Section 80F.1, subsection 1, paragraphs c, e, and f, Code 2025, are amended to read as follows: c. "Formal administrative investigation" means an investigative process ordered by a commanding officer of an agency or commander's designee during which the questioning of an officer is intended to gather evidence to determine to investigate the merit of a complaint, including by questioning the complainant or witnesses, or conducting an interview of the officer subject to the complaint, and identifying and gathering evidence narrowly tailored to the complaint, which may be the basis for seeking administrative charges and the removal, discharge, or suspension, or other disciplinary action against the officer. e. "Interview" means the questioning of an officer who is the subject of a complaint pursuant to the formal administrative investigation procedures of the investigating agency, if such a complaint may be the basis for seeking removal, discharge, or suspension, or other disciplinary action against the officer. "Interview" does not include questioning as part of any informal …