House File 530 -H-1065 ReprintedAmend HOUSEHouse FILEFile 530 BYas COMMITTEEfollows: ON PUBLIC SAFETY (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 166) (As Amended and Passed by the House March 12, 2025) A BILL FOR An Act authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or an assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons.

BE1. IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

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Section___. 724.6, subsection 1, paragraphs b, c, and d, HF 530 (5) 91 -1- sb/js/md 1/3 H.F.

530 Code 2025, are amended to read as follows:

b.

The permit shall be on a form prescribed and published by the commissioner of public safety, shall identify the holder, and shall state the nature of the employment requiring the holder to go armed.

A permit so issued, other than to a member of the general assembly, peace officer, judicial officer, county attorney, or assistant county attorney, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general, shall authorize the person to whom it is issued to go armed anywhere in the state, only while engaged in the employment, and while going to and from the place of the employment.

c.

A permit issued to a member of the general assembly, certified peace officer, judicial officer, county attorney, or assistant county attorney, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general shall authorize that member of the general assembly, peace officer, judicial officer, county attorney, or assistant county attorney, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general to go armed anywhere in the state at all times, including on the grounds of a school.

d.

Permits shall expire twelve months after the date when issued except that permits issued to members of the general assembly, peace officers, judicial officers, county attorneys, assistant county attorneys, the attorney general, deputy attorneys general, assistant attorneys general, and correctional officers are valid through the holder of the permit’s period of employment unless otherwise canceled.

When the employment is terminated, the holder of the permit shall surrender it the permit to the issuing officer for cancellation.

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4.

Notwithstanding any other provision in this section, a court may choose to prohibit a person issued a permit to carry weapons under this section from HF 530530.853 (5)(1) 91 -2--1- sb/js/mdsb/js 2/31/2 H.F.carrying weapons inside a courtroom, except for peace officers or correctional officers fulfilling the duties of their employment.

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5.______________________________ GOSA of Scott HF 530.853 (1) 91 -2- sb/js 2/2

Section 724.6, subsection 3, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:

3.

For purposes of this section, “emergency medical care provider”:

a.

“Emergency medical care provider” means the same as defined in section 147A.1.

b.