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House Journal: Page 603: Thursday, March 7, 1996

The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared
to have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
IMMEDIATE MESSAGE
Siegrist of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent
that House File 2409 be immediately messaged to the Senate.
The House stood at ease at 10:32 a.m., until the fall of the
gavel.

The House resumed session at  11:17 a.m., Rants of Woodbury in
the chair.
ADOPTION OF HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 116
Grundberg of Polk called up for consideration House Concurrent
Resolution 116, a concurrent resolution designating March 1996
as Iowa Women's History Month and moved its adoption.
The motion prevailed and the resolution was adopted.
IMMEDIATE MESSAGE
Siegrist of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent
that House Concurrent Resolution 116 be immediately messaged to
the Senate.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
In celebration of "March Women's History Month - 150 Years of
Iowa Women", the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women, the
Iowa Department of Education and the State Historical Society of
 Iowa sponsored a "Write Women Back Into History" essay contest.
Holveck of Polk presented the following winners of the contest:
Sixth and Seventh Grade Category
First Place - Amanda Jo  Miller, Red Oak Community Middle
School, Red Oak, for her essay about Gladys Cooper, a
nineteenth-century doctor.
Second Place - Emily Salsbery, St. Augustin School, Des Moines,
for her essay about her mother Patricia Shoff.
Third Place - Megan Bradfield, Wilton Elementary School, Wilton,
for her essay about her great-grandmother Lela Whitmer Norton.
Eighth and Ninth Grade Category
First Place - Rene Kafka, Heelan High School, Sioux City, for
her essay on the "Common Woman."
Second Place - Dia Carpenter, Charles City Middle School,
Charles City, for her essay on Carrie Chapman Catt.
Third Place - Erin Orozco, Keokuk Middle School, Keokuk, for her
essay on Janet Fife.

Iowa General Assembly

Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 2)

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