815.7A Travel time for attorney or guardian ad litem. 1. Compensation for time spent by an attorney or guardian ad litem traveling outside of the attorney’s or guardian ad litem’s county of domicile is payable when the travel is reasonableand necessary to represent the indigent client and shall be calculated at a rate of thirty-fivedollars per hour. Compensation for travel for a court proceeding other than a trial or othercontested proceeding shall only be paid if the attorney or guardian ad litem files a motionfor a remote hearing and the motion is denied. This section does not affect any allowablecompensation for time spent traveling already compensated pursuant to any other applicableprovision of law. 2. Compensation for travel for an arraignment, pretrial conference, scheduling conference, or any other uncontested or nontestimonial judicial proceeding, for which arequest for a remote hearing was denied, paid to the attorney or guardian ad litem from theindigent defense fund created in section 815.11 shall be reimbursed by the judicial branch. 3. For purposes of this section, 'county of domicile' means the address the attorney or guardian ad litem has on file with the office of in section 815.11 shall be reimbursed by the judicial branch. 3. For purposes of this section, 'county of domicile' means the address the attorney or guardian ad litem has on file with the office of the state public defender. 2023 Acts, ch 113, §21NEW section Sat Dec 23 12:35:10 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 815.7A (0, 0)
Iowa Legal Code