Iowa General Assembly Banner


Previous Day: Monday, April 3Next Day: Wednesday, April 5
Senate Journal: Index House Journal: Index
Legislation: Index Bill History: Index

Previous Page: 1207Today'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 Journal: Page 1208: Tuesday, April 4, 1995

HOUSE FILES  WITHDRAWN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 3Next Day: Wednesday, April 5
Senate Journal: Index House Journal: Index
Legislation: Index Bill History: Index

Return To Home Iowa General Assembly

index Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 1)

© 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