Another year, another Iowa Legislative Session and a possible run at legislative action to protect sports officials. In the Senate, it’s called SF50 or Senate File 50, and the House has their version of the bill called HF52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Senate will hold a subcommittee meeting on Wed. 1\/22\/2025 at 3:00 p.m. in the Senate Lounge at the State Capitol. Anyone may attend or speak at this hearing to give public comment, a Zoom link will be available to attend or comment remotely on the Senate version, but not in the House (I’m trying to find the link for this to attend via Zoom). This subcommittee is lead by Senators Jeff Reichman (R of Keokuk), Herman Quirmbach (D of Ames) and Scott Webster (R of Bettendorf).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This bill essentially adds the title “sports official” to a long list of others, making this assault a felony. It says, “A person who commits an assault against a peace officer, jailer, corrections officer, …with the intent to inflict serious injury is guilty of a class “D” felony. They’re also guity of another class “D” felony if that person uses or displays a dangerous weapon in connection with the assault. But in certain cases, this crime could also be classified as a serious misdemeanor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you follow this link<\/a> and really want to get into the weeds, you’ll see which lobbyists groups have declared For, Against, or Undecided on this matter. You’ll also see their definition of a sports official and other details, such as potential limits to liability for injuries a player might incur in any contest we officiate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ll update this post with any new developments, such as whether the senate committee recommends this for floor discussion and a possible vote. In previous years this topic has not made it past the funnell week or essentially died due to lack of interest or treated as less of a priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please get involved and contact your State Senator or Representative to let them know if you have an opinion here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another year, another Iowa Legislative Session and a possible run at legislative action to protect sports officials. In the Senate, it’s called SF50 or Senate File 50, and the House has their version of the bill called HF52. The Senate will hold a subcommittee meeting on Wed. 1\/22\/2025 at 3:00 p.m. in the Senate Lounge… Read More »New Bill State Lawmakers May Consider for Ref Protections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,30],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-legal-protection","tag-state-laws"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmoinesofficials.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}