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House Journal: Page 499: Wednesday, February 22, 1995

Absent or not voting, 5:
Brammer        	Drees          	Greiner        	Nelson, L.      
	Van Fossen     	
Amendment H-3146 lost.
Siegrist of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent
that House File 2 be deferred. 
(Amendment H-3109, as amended, pending)
On motion by Siegrist of Pottawattamie, the House was recessed
at 12:22 p.m., until 1:30 p.m.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The House reconvened at 1:32 p.m., Rants of Woodbury in the
chair.
CONSIDERATION OF BILLS
Regular Calendar
The House resumed consideration of  House File 2, a bill for an
act applying the death penalty or life imprisonment, by
establishing the offense of capital murder, by providing a
minimum age for imposition of a death sentence, by providing for
review of death sentences, by providing for execution by lethal
injection, by amending the rules of criminal procedure, and by
providing for the Act's applicability, previously deferred, and
the committee amendment H-3109, as amended, pending.
Doderer of Johnson offered the following amendment H-3138, to
the committee amendment H-3109, filed by Doderer, Jochum,
Connors, Bernau, Mascher and Burnett from the floor and moved
its adoption:
H-3138
 1     Amend the amendment, H-3109, to House File 2 as
 2   follows:
 3     1.  Page 3, line 22, by striking the words "life
 4   imprisonment" and inserting the following:
 5   "imprisonment until death".
 6     2.  Page 3, by inserting after line 40 the
 7   following:
 8     "Sec. ___.  Section 818.14, Code 1995, is amended
 9   to read as follows:
10     818.14  BAIL.
11     Unless the crime with which the prisoner is charged
12   is shown to be an offense punishable by death or life
13   imprisonment until death under the laws of the
14   demanding state, a judge or magistrate in the asylum
15   state may admit the person arrested to bail by bond
16   with sufficient sureties, and in such sum as the judge

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