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Senate Amendment 3213

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  1  1    Amend House File 335, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 1, by inserting after line 14 the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  125.83A  PLACEMENT IN
  1  6 CERTAIN FEDERAL FACILITIES.
  1  7    If upon completion of the commitment hearing, the
  1  8 court finds that the contention that the respondent is
  1  9 a chronic substance abuser has been sustained by clear
  1 10 and convincing evidence, and the court is furnished
  1 11 evidence that the respondent is eligible for care and
  1 12 treatment in a facility operated by the veterans
  1 13 administration or another agency of the United States
  1 14 government and that the facility is willing to receive
  1 15 the respondent, the court may so order.  The
  1 16 respondent, when so placed in a facility operated by
  1 17 the veterans administration or another agency of the
  1 18 United States government within or outside of this
  1 19 state, shall be subject to the rules of the veterans
  1 20 administration or other agency, but shall not lose any
  1 21 procedural rights afforded the respondent by this
  1 22 chapter.  The chief officer of the facility shall
  1 23 have, with respect to the respondent so placed, the
  1 24 same powers and duties as the chief medical officer of
  1 25 a hospital in this state would have in regard to
  1 26 submission of reports to the court, retention of
  1 27 custody, transfer, convalescent leave or discharge.
  1 28 Jurisdiction is retained in the court to maintain
  1 29 surveillance of the respondent's treatment and care,
  1 30 and at any time to inquire into the respondent's
  1 31 condition and the need for continued care and custody.
  1 32    2.  Upon receipt of a certificate stating that a
  1 33 respondent placed under this chapter is eligible for
  1 34 care and treatment in a facility operated by the
  1 35 veterans administration or another agency of the
  1 36 United States government which is willing to receive
  1 37 the respondent without charge to the state of Iowa or
  1 38 any county in the state, the chief medical officer may
  1 39 transfer the respondent to that facility.  Upon so
  1 40 doing, the chief medical officer shall notify the
  1 41 court which ordered the respondent's placement in the
  1 42 same manner as would be required in the case of a
  1 43 transfer under section 125.86, subsection 2, and the
  1 44 respondent transferred shall be entitled to the same
  1 45 rights as the respondent would have under that
  1 46 subsection.  No respondent shall be transferred under
  1 47 this section who is confined pursuant to conviction of
  1 48 a public offense or whose placement was ordered upon
  1 49 contention of incompetence to stand trial by reason of
  1 50 mental illness, without prior approval of the court
  2  1 which ordered that respondent's placement.
  2  2    3.  A judgment or order of commitment by a court of
  2  3 competent jurisdiction of another state or the
  2  4 District of Columbia, under which any person is
  2  5 hospitalized or placed in a facility operated by the
  2  6 veterans administration or another agency of the
  2  7 United States government, shall have the same force
  2  8 and effect with respect to that person while the
  2  9 person is in this state as the judgment or order would
  2 10 have if the person were in the jurisdiction of the
  2 11 court which issued it.  That court shall be deemed to
  2 12 have retained jurisdiction of the person so placed for
  2 13 the purpose of inquiring into that person's condition
  2 14 and the need for continued care and custody, as do
  2 15 courts in this state under this section.  Consent is
  2 16 given to the application of the law of the state or
  2 17 district in which the court is situated which issued
  2 18 the judgment or order as regards authority of the
  2 19 chief officer of any facility, operated in this state
  2 20 by the veterans administration or another agency of
  2 21 the United States government, to retain custody,
  2 22 transfer, place on convalescent leave or discharge the
  2 23 person so committed."
  2 24    #2.  Title page, line 2, by inserting after the
  2 25 word "statistics," the following:  "chemical substance
  2 26 abuse,".
  2 27    #3.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  2 28 
  2 29 
  2 30                               
  2 31 MICHAEL E. GRONSTAL
  2 32 HF 335.202 77
  2 33 pf/jj/28
     

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