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House File 743 - Enrolled
                                                      House File 743
                                  AN ACT
     PROVIDING FOR REPRESENTATION OF ADOPTIVE PARENTS BY LOCAL
        PUBLIC DEFENDERS.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
 1      Section 1. Section 13B.9, subsection 1, paragraph b, Code
 2   2021, is amended to read as follows:
 3      b. Represent an indigent party, upon order of the court,
 4   in child in need of assistance, family in need of assistance,
 5   delinquency, and termination of parental rights proceedings
 6   pursuant to chapter 232 when designated by the state public
 7   defender to represent the indigent party in the type of case
 8   for that county. The local public defender shall counsel and
 9   represent an indigent party in all proceedings pursuant to
10   chapter 232 to which the local public defender is appointed
11   and prosecute before or after judgment any appeals or other
12   remedies which the local public defender considers to be in
13   the interest of justice unless other counsel is appointed to
14   the case. A local public defender office shall represent in
15   a subsequent adoption proceeding an indigent party who files
16   an adoption petition pursuant to section 600.3 to adopt a
17   child who was the subject of a termination of parental rights
18   proceeding pursuant to chapter 232 in which the local public
19   defender office was involved as provided under this paragraph.
20   If a conflict of interest arises, the representation shall be
21   provided through referral of the indigent party to outside
22   counsel with whom the state public defender has contracted,
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23 subject to the fees for legal services incorporated in the
24 contract.
   ______________________________     ______________________________
   PAT GRASSLEY                       JAKE CHAPMAN
   Speaker of the House               President of the Senate
      I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
   is known as House File 743, Eighty-ninth General Assembly.
                                      ______________________________
                                      MEGHAN NELSON
                                      Chief Clerk of the House
   Approved _______________, 2021     ______________________________
                                      KIM REYNOLDS
                                      Governor
Statutes affected: 
Introduced: 13B.9
Enrolled: 13B.9