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Senate Amendment 5720

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  1  1    Amend the House amendment, S-5690, to Senate File
  1  2 2114, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate,
  1  3 as follows:
  1  4    #1.  Page 1, line 3, by striking the figure "25."
  1  5 and inserting the following:  "25 and inserting the
  1  6 following:
  1  7    "Section 1.  Section 708.3A, Code Supplement 1995,
  1  8 as amended by 1996 Iowa Acts, Senate File 2167,
  1  9 section 1, is amended to read as follows:
  1 10    708.3A  ASSAULTS ON PEACE OFFICERS, FIRE FIGHTERS,
  1 11 AND HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS.
  1 12    1.  A person who commits an assault, as defined in
  1 13 section 708.1, against a peace officer, whether on-
  1 14 duty or not, health care provider, or fire fighter,
  1 15 whether paid or volunteer, with the knowledge that the
  1 16 person against whom the assault is committed is a
  1 17 peace officer, health care provider, or fire fighter
  1 18 and with the intent to inflict a serious injury upon
  1 19 the peace officer, health care provider, or fire
  1 20 fighter, is guilty of a class "D" felony.
  1 21    2.  A person who commits an assault, as defined in
  1 22 section 708.1, against a peace officer, whether on-
  1 23 duty or not, health care provider, or fire fighter,
  1 24 whether paid or volunteer, who knows that the person
  1 25 against whom the assault is committed is a peace
  1 26 officer, health care provider, or fire fighter and who
  1 27 uses or displays a dangerous weapon in connection with
  1 28 the assault, is guilty of a class "D" felony.
  1 29    3.  A person who commits an assault, as defined in
  1 30 section 708.1, against a peace officer, whether on-
  1 31 duty or not, health care provider, or fire fighter,
  1 32 whether paid or volunteer, who knows that the person
  1 33 against whom the assault is committed is a peace
  1 34 officer, health care provider, or fire fighter, and
  1 35 who causes bodily injury or disabling mental illness,
  1 36 is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor.
  1 37    4.  Any other assault, as defined in section 708.1,
  1 38 committed against a peace officer, whether on-duty or
  1 39 not, health care provider, or fire fighter, whether
  1 40 paid or volunteer, by a person who knows that the
  1 41 person against whom the assault is committed is a
  1 42 peace officer, health care provider, or fire fighter,
  1 43 is a serious misdemeanor.
  1 44    5.  As used in this section, "health care provider"
  1 45 means an emergency medical care provider as defined in
  1 46 chapter 147A or a person licensed or registered under
  1 47 chapter 148, 148C, 148D, 150, 150A, or 152 who is
  1 48 providing or who is attempting to provide emergency
  1 49 medical services, as defined in section 147A.1, or who
  1 50 is providing or who is attempting to provide health
  2  1 services as defined in section 135.61 in a hospital.
  2  2 A person who commits an assault under this section
  2  3 against a health care provider in a hospital, or at
  2  4 the scene or during out-of-hospital patient
  2  5 transportation in an ambulance, is presumed to know
  2  6 that the person against whom the assault is committed
  2  7 is a health care provider.""
  2  8    #2.  Page 1, by inserting after line 20 the
  2  9 following:
  2 10    "#   .  Page 2, by inserting after line 34 the
  2 11 following:
  2 12    "Sec.    .  REPEAL.  1996 Iowa Acts, Senate File
  2 13 2080, section 62, is repealed.""
  2 14    #3.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  2 15 
  2 16 
  2 17                              
  2 18 MICHAEL E. GRONSTAL
  2 19 SF 2114.204 76
  2 20 mk/jj
     

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