Previous Day: Monday, April 3 | Next Day: Wednesday, April 5 |
Senate Journal: Index | House Journal: Index |
Legislation: Index | Bill History: Index |
Previous Page: 1207 | Today's Journal Page |
This file contains UNDERSCORE. If you cannot see the UNDERSCORE attribute or would like to change how this attribute is displayed, please use the following form to make the desired change.
HOUSE FILES WITHDRAWN Nelson of Marshall asked and received unanimous consent to withdraw House File 174 from further consideration by the House. Warnstadt of Woodbury asked and received unanimous consent to withdraw House File 386 from further consideration by the House. Metcalf of Polk asked and received unanimous consent to withdraw House File 347 from further consideration by the House. CONSIDERATION OF BILLS Regular Calendar House File 337, a bill for an act to amend the criteria necessary to establish that a person is seriously mentally impaired for purposes of involuntary hospitalization, with report of committee recommending passage, was taken up for consideration. Wise of Lee offered the following amendment H-3548 filed by Wise, et. al., and moved its adoption: H-3548 1 Amend House File 337 as follows: 2 1. Page 1, by inserting after line 7 the 3 following: 4 "Sec. ___. Section 229.22, subsection 2, Code 5 1995, is amended to read as follows: 6 2. In the circumstances described in subsection 1, 7 any peace officer who has reasonable grounds to 8 believe that a person is mentally ill, and because of 9 that illness is likely to physically injure the 10 person's self or others if not immediately detained, 11 may without a warrant take or cause that person to be 12 taken to the nearest available facility as defined in 13 section 229.11, subsections 2 and 3. A person 14 believed mentally ill, and likely to injure the 15 person's self or others if not immediately detained, 16 may be delivered to a hospital by someone other than a 17 peace officer. Upon delivery of the person believed 18 mentally ill to the hospital, the chief medical 19 officer may order treatment of that person, including 20 chemotherapy, but only to the extent necessary to 21 preserve the person's life or to appropriately control 22 behavior by the person which is likely to result in 23 physical injury to that person or others if allowed to 24 continue. The peace officer who took the person into 25 custody, or other party who brought the person to the 26 hospital, shall describe the circumstances of the 27 matter to the chief medical officer. If the chief 28 medical officer finds that there is reason to believe
Next Page: 1209 | |
Previous Day: Monday, April 3 | Next Day: Wednesday, April 5 |
Senate Journal: Index | House Journal: Index |
Legislation: Index | Bill History: Index |
© 1995 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa
Comments? hjourn@legis.iowa.gov.
Last update: Sun Jan 14 21:05:02 CST 1996
URL: /DOCS/GA/76GA/Session.1/HJournal/01200/01208.html
jhf