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House Journal: Wednesday, January 24, 1996

Seventeenth Calendar Day - Twelfth Session Day

Hall of the House of Representatives
Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, January 24, 1996
The House met pursuant to adjournment, Speaker Corbett in the
chair.
Prayer was offered by Reverend David Splett, St. Paul Lutheran
Church, Eldora.
The Journal of Tuesday, January 23, 1996 was approved.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Prior to reconvening, the House, in recognition of Arts Day at
the Capitol, was entertained by the Pioneer String Quartet.
Members of the quartet were: Alice Vermeer, Linda Pfund, violin;
Charles Miranda, viola; and Joseph Rodgers, cello. They are also
members of the Des Moines Symphony.
The House rose and expressed its appreciation.
PETITIONS FILED
The following petitions were received and placed on file:
By Gries of Crawford from the Carroll Community School District
Board of Directors, favoring maintaining the current level of
funding for special needs programs.
By Gries of Crawford from the Western Hills Area Education
Agency, favoring changes in the Iowa Public Employees Retirement
System which will facilitate its being made competitive with
other retirement programs for educators nationally.
By Meyer of Sac from the Eastwood Community School District
Board of Directors favoring maintaining the current level of
funding for special needs programs.
By Meyer of Sac from the Anthon-Oto Community School Board of
Directors favoring changes in the Iowa Public Employees
Retirement System which will facilitate its being made
competitive with other retirement programs for educators
nationally.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
House File 2096, by Bradley and Moreland, a bill for an act
providing for the establishment of a lien by licensed
professionals against damages collected by an injured patient.
Read first time and referred to committee on commerce -
regulation.
House File 2097, by Halvorson, a bill for an act relating to
postconviction release bonds.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
House File 2098, by Grundberg, a bill for an act relating to
a sales tax exemption for certain aircraft and providing an
immediate effective date.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
House File 2099, by Ollie, Mascher, Myers, and Doderer, a
bill for an act relating to the nonconsensual termination of or
serious injury to a human pregnancy, and providing penalties.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
House File 2100, by Rants, a bill for an act exempting from
the sales tax motor vehicles purchased solely for installation
and assembly of heavy duty equipment.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
House File 2101, by Kremer, a bill for an act relating to
windshield wiper operation and lighted headlamps, and making a
penalty applicable.
Read first time and referred to committee on transportation.
House File 2102, by Burnett, a bill for an act relating to
the dates on which city hospital or health care facility
trustees take and depart from office.
Read first time and referred to committee on state government.
House File 2103, by Fallon, a bill for an act relating to
the provision of a copy of records of services provided by a
member of a licensed or certified profession to a person named
in the record upon the request of the named person.
Read first time and referred to committee on human resources.

SPONSOR ADDED
(House File 2063)
Warnstadt of Woodbury requested to be added as a sponsor of
House File 2063.
EXPLANATIONS OF VOTE
I was necessarily absent from the House chamber on the morning
of January 23, 1996.  Had I been present, I would have voted
"aye" on
 House Files 16, 121, amendment H_5005 to house File 121, House
File 329, 2001, 2065 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 103.
MORELAND of Wapello
I was necessarily absent from the House chamber on January 23,
1996. Had I been present, I would have voted "aye" on House
Files 16, 121, 329, 2001 and 2065, and Senate Concurrent
Resolution 103. 
 VEENSTRA of Sioux
COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED
The following communications were received and filed in the
office of the Chief Clerk:
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
The "Truancy Report for the 1994-1995 School Year," pursuant to
Chapter 218.1(1), 1995 Acts of the Seventy-sixth General
Assembly.
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT
The Targeted Small Business and Contract Compliance Report,
pursuant to Chapter 19B.7, Code of Iowa.
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
The 1996 Iowa Comprehensive Energy Plan, pursuant to Chapter
473.7, Code of Iowa.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
The 1996-2000 Transportation Improvement Report, pursuant to
Chapter 307A.2(12), Code of Iowa.
The1995 Iowa Airport Sufficiency Ratings, pursuant to Chapter
328.12, Code of Iowa.
IOWA INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
A report on health care coverage costs for mental health and
substance abuse treatment services under the basic and standard
health benefit plans, pursuant to Chapter 73.1(2), 1995 Acts of
the Seventy-sixth General Assembly.
CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION
MR. SPEAKER: The Chief Clerk of the House respectfully reports
that certificate of recognition have been issued as follows.
ELIZABETH A. ISAACSON
Chief Clerk of the House      
1996\49	Major Charles Vollmer, Chief Deputy Scott County
Sheriff's Department, Davenport - For his Thirty-one years of
distinguished law enforcement service to the citizens of Scott
County.  
                   SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS               
House File 2056 Reassigned
Judiciary: Millage, Chair; Grubbs and Holveck.
House File 2081
Commerce-Regulation: Churchill, Chair; Larson and Wise.
House File 2087
Commerce-Regulation: Nutt, Chair; Holveck and Renken.

HOUSE STUDY BILL SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
House Study Bill 526
Appropriations: Millage, Chair; Gipp and Murphy.
HOUSE STUDY BILL COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
H.S.B. 527  Transportation
Relating to the establishment of an anatomical gift awareness
and transplantation fund to be administered by and an anatomical
gift advisory committee to be established within the Iowa
department of public health.
H.S.B. 528  Commerce-Regulation 
Relating to the delay of the repeal for the exemption of certain
multiple employer welfare arrangements from regulation by the
insurance division and providing an effective date.
H.S.B. 529  State Government
Relating to setting the compensation for publication of certain
notices by the superintendent of printing.
H.S.B. 530   Human Resources
Relating to the payment by third parties of physician assistants
and advanced registered nurse practitioners.
H.S.B. 531  Ways and Means 
Relating to industrial machinery, computers and equipment for
purposes of sales and property taxation and providing an
effective date and applicability date.
H.S.B. 532  Agriculture
Providing for the organizational of cooperative corporations,
providing for fees, and providing for penalties.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
MR. SPEAKER: The Chief Clerk of the House respectfully reports
that the following committee recommendations have been received
and are on file in the office of the Chief Clerk.
ELIZABETH A. ISAACSON
Chief Clerk of the House
COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
House File 2061, a bill for an act relating to the immunity from
civil liability for health care peer review committee members.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass January 23, 1996.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 2060), a bill for an act
relating to the testing of records requirements regarding human
immunodeficiency virus-related tests and making existing
remedies applicable.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass January 23, 1996.
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
House File 526, a bill for an act to permit the court to require
victim-offender reconciliation under certain circumstances.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass with amendment H-5009 January 23,
1996.
House Concurrent Resolution 28, a concurrent resolution
requesting that the united States Congress repeal the
decriminalization of status offenses mandate contained in the
federal Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974.
Fiscal note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass and laid over under Rule 25 January 23, 1996.
COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT
House Joint Resolution 2003, a joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa to limit the
number of terms for members of the Senate and the House of
Representatives, and to limit the number of terms of Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State,
Auditor of State, and Treasurer of State.
Fiscal note is not required.
Recommend Do Pass January 24, 1996.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
House File 2066, a bill for an act relating to the operation of
motor vehicles in border cities and providing an effective date.
Fiscal note is not required.
Recommend Do Pass January 23, 1996.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 515), a bill for an
act providing for a permanent registration plate for motor
trucks and truck-tractors licensed pursuant to multistate
registration.
Fiscal Note is required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass January 23, 1996.
COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
Senate File 2030, a bill for an act relating to state and county
mental health and developmental disability funding provisions
and including an applicability provision and an effective date.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass with amendment H-5008 January 23,
1996.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 509), a bill for an
act relating to taxation within the state by changing the
computation of the inflation factor for the tax brackets of the
state individual income tax, the method for the computation of
state income tax on shareholders of corporations whose income is
taxed directly to its shareholders, exemptions from the state
inheritance tax, and appropriating moneys to a special taxpayer
relief account for purposes of providing tax relief and
providing effective and retroactive and other applicability date
provisions.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass January 22, 1996.
Committee Bill (Formerly Study Bill 518), a bill for an act
relating to the percentage of actual value at which residential
property is assessed for valuations determined during the 1995
and 1996 assessment years and providing an effective and
retroactive applicability date provision.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass January 22, 1996.
AMENDMENTS FILED

H_5008	S.F.	2030			Committee on 
					Ways and Means
H_5009	H.F.	526			Committee on 
					Judiciary
On motion by Siegrist of Pottawattamie, the House adjourned at
9:08 a.m., until 8:45 a.m., Thursday, January 25, 1996.

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