Amendment H-8447 to SF 639
Creating a specialty business court, and including effective date provisions
Adopted · May 2, 2026
Filed April 30, 2026 in the House by
What it changes
- Page 6, before line 6 by inserting: “Sec. ___. REPORT. On or before January 1, 2029, the judicial branch shall submit a report to the general assembly on the performance of the business court established under section 602.6801, as enacted in this Act. The report must include but is not limited to all of the following:
- The average number of days from filing to final disposition of business court cases.
- A side-by-side comparison of the number of days from filing to final disposition of business court cases with the number of days from filing to final disposition of comparable commercial civil litigation on the district court docket.
- The total number of cases filed in, transferred away from, dismissed from, or retained on the business court docket as provided in section 602.6804, as enacted in this Act.
- A detailed accounting of all personnel costs, including judicial salaries, clerk support, and administrative overhead of the business court.
- An estimate of the cost savings, if any, of district courts due to the operations of the business court.
- The total amount of court fees collected for cases in the business court.
- The percentage of time, if any, that business court judges spend on non-business-court civil litigation cases in district court.
- Anonymized survey data from legal counsel and other litigants regarding the perceived expertise, fairness, efficiency, and predictability of the business court.
- The number and outcome of appeals of business court decisions compared to the general reversal rate for civil litigation case decisions.”
- Page 6, line 7, by striking “2025” and inserting “2026”
- By renumbering as necessary.