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House Journal: Page 1325: Wednesday, April 3, 1996

Speaker pro tempore Van Maanen of Marion in the chair at 8:58
a.m.

CONSIDERATION OF BILLS
Unfinished Business Calendar
The House resumed consideration of  Senate File 2438, a bill for
an act relating to the terminology used to describe persons with
certain mental and physical conditions, previously deferred and
planced on the unfinished business calendar.
Grundberg of Polk offered the following amendment H-5528 filed
by her and moved its adoption:

H-5528

 1     Amend Senate File 2438, as passed by the Senate, as
 2   follows:
 3     1.  Page 1, lines 6 and 7, by striking the words
 4   "of unsound mind" and inserting the following:  "of
 5   unsound mind with any type of mental disease or
mental
 6   disorder, except that mental illness does not refer to
 7   mental retardation as defined in section 222.2, or to
 8   insanity, diminished responsibility, or mental
 9   incompetency as defined and used in the Iowa criminal
10   code or in the rules of criminal procedure, Iowa court
11   rules, 3d ed".
12     2.  Page 41, lines 29 and 30, by striking the
13   words "WITH MENTAL ILLNESS" and inserting the
14   following:  "UNDER LEGAL INCOMPETENCY".
15     3.  Page 41, by striking lines 31 and 32 and
16   inserting the following:
17     "The vote of any person who is a minor, mentally
18   ill, or under other legal incompetency shall be".
19     4.  Page 42, line 3, by striking the words "with
20   mental illness or other" and inserting the following:
21   "under".
22     5.  Page 45, by striking lines 2 and 3 and
23   inserting the following:
24     "No marriage A dissolution of marriage
granted d ue
25   to the mental illness of when one of the spouses
has
26   mental illness shall not relieve the".
27     6.  Page 46, by striking lines 18 through 20 and
28   inserting the following:
29     "a.  One who is under legal incompetency or is a
30   mental retardate, mentally ill, a chronic alcoholic,
31   or a spendthrift."
32     7.  Title page, line 2, by inserting after the
33   word "conditions" the following:  ", and providing for
34   related matters concerning persons with mental
35   illness".
Amendment H-5528 was adopted.

Iowa General Assembly

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