Iowa courthouses will close an additional eight days between now and June 30 if the $3.8-million cut to the judicial system approved Thursday by the Iowa House is also approved by the Senate and signed by the governor, State Court Administrator David Boyd told a panel of lawmakers this week.

That's twice a month, or once a pay period, Boyd told the legislature's joint justice-system budget subcommittee. Beginning in March, the courts would close on each day that the state's 1,600 clerks of court and other judicial employees take a furlough, or unpaid day off, for a savings of $335,000 a day.