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1 1 Amend Senate File 2331 as follows:
1 2 #1. By striking everything after the enacting
1 3 clause and inserting the following:
1 4 "Section 1. NEW SECTION. 715A.6A PROHIBITIONS
1 5 RELATING TO FALSE ACADEMIC DEGREES, GRADES, OR HONORS.
1 6 1. As used in this section, "academic degree"
1 7 means a diploma, certificate, license, transcript, or
1 8 other document which signifies or purports to signify
1 9 completion of the academic requirements of a
1 10 secondary, postsecondary, professional, or
1 11 governmental program of study.
1 12 2. A person commits a serious misdemeanor if the
1 13 person, knowingly and willingly, does any of the
1 14 following:
1 15 a. Falsely makes or alters, procures to be falsely
1 16 made or altered, or assists in falsely making or
1 17 altering, an academic degree.
1 18 b. Uses, offers, or presents as genuine, a falsely
1 19 made or altered academic degree.
1 20 c. Sells, gives, purchases, or obtains, procures
1 21 to be sold, given, purchased, or obtained, or assists
1 22 in selling, giving, buying, or obtaining, a false
1 23 academic degree.
1 24 d. Makes a false written representation relating
1 25 to the person's academic grades, honors, or awards, or
1 26 makes a false written representation that the person
1 27 has received an academic degree from a specific
1 28 secondary, postsecondary, professional institution, or
1 29 governmental program of study, in an application for
1 30 any of the following:
1 31 (1) Employment.
1 32 (2) Admission to an educational program.
1 33 (3) An award or other recognition.
1 34 (4) The issuance of an academic degree to the
1 35 person."
1 36 #2. Title page, by striking lines 1 through 3 and
1 37 inserting the following: "An Act prohibiting certain
1 38 uses and false representations relating to academic
1 39 degrees, grades, or honors, and providing a penalty."
1 40
1 41
1 42
1 43 DONALD B. REDFERN
1 44 SF 2331.302 76
1 45 kah/cf
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