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House Journal: Page 2064: Friday, April 28, 1995

H-4033

 1     Amend House File 519, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the House, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
 4   following:
 5     "Sec. ___.  Section 13.13, subsection 2, Code 1995,
 6   is amended to read as follows:
 7     2.  The farm assistance program coordinator shall
 8   contract with a nonprofit organization chartered in
 9   this state to provide mediation services as provided
10   in chapters 654A and 654B.  The contract shall be
11   awarded to the organization by July 1, 1990.  The
farm
12   assistance program coordinator shall contract with a
13   nonprofit organization to provide mediation services
14   as provided in chapter 654C based upon a designation
15   forwarded by the organic nutrient management board.  A
16   contract may be terminated by the coordinator upon
17   written notice and for good cause.  The coordinator
18   shall notify the board six months prior to the
19   expiration of a contract or ten days prior to the
20   termination of a contract involving a nonprofit
21   organization providing mediation services as provided
22   in chapter 654C.  The coordinator shall select an
23   organization to provide mediation services under
24   chapter 654C, if the coordinator does not receive the
25   board's selection in writing within thirty days
26   following the board's receipt of the notice of
27   expiration or termination of the contract.  An
28   organization awarded the contract is designated as the
29   farm mediation service for the chapter for which the
30   organization is to provide mediation services, for the
31   duration of the contract.  The An organization may,
32   upon approval by the coordinator, provide mediation
33   services other than as provided by law.  The farm
34   mediation service is not a state agency for the
35   purposes of chapters 19A, 20, and 669.
36     Sec. ___.  Section 13.14, subsections 1 and 2, Code
37   1995, are amended to read as follows:
38     1.  Meetings of the a farm mediation service are
39   closed meetings and are not subject to chapter 21.
40     2.  Verbal or written information relating to the
41   mediation process and transmitted between a party to a
42   dispute and the a farm mediation service, including
a
43   mediator or the mediation staff, or any other person
44   present during any stage of the mediation process
45   conducted by the a service, whether reflected in
46   notes, memoranda, or other work products in the case
47   files, is a confidential communication.  Mediators and
48   staff members shall not be examined in any judicial or
49   administrative proceeding regarding confidential
50   communications and are not subject to judicial or

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