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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend Senate File 515 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 20, by inserting after line 23 the 1 3 following: 1 4 "Sec. ___. Section 622.10, unnumbered paragraph 1, 1 5 Code 1997, is amended to read as follows: 1 6 A practicing attorney, counselor, physician, 1 7 surgeon, physician assistant, mental health 1 8 professional, or the stenographer or confidential 1 9 clerk of any such person, who obtains information by 1 10 reason of the person's employment, or a member of the 1 11 clergy shall not be allowed, in giving testimony, to 1 12 disclose any confidential communication properly 1 13 entrusted to the person in the person's professional 1 14 capacity, and necessary and proper to enable the 1 15 person to discharge the functions of the person's 1 16 office according to the usual course of practice or 1 17 discipline. The prohibition does not apply to cases 1 18 where the person in whose favor the prohibition is 1 19 made waives the rights conferred; nor does the 1 20 prohibition apply to physicians or surgeons, 1 21 physician's assistants, mental health professionals, 1 22 or to the stenographer or confidential clerk of any 1 23 physicians or surgeons, physician's assistants, or 1 24 mental health professionals, in a civil action in 1 25 which the condition of the person in whose favor the 1 26 prohibition is made is an element or factor of the 1 27 claim or defense of the person or of any party 1 28 claiming through or under the person. The prohibition 1 29 also does not apply to cases in which the 1 30 communication pertains to chemical test results of 1 31 specimens of a person's blood, breath, or urine which 1 32 are obtained under chapter 321J. The evidence is 1 33 admissible upon trial of the action only as it relates 1 34 to the condition alleged." 1 35 #2. Title page 1, line 4, by inserting after the 1 36 word "dramshop" the following: "and other alcohol- 1 37 related". 1 38 #3. By numbering and renumbering and changing 1 39 internal references as necessary. 1 40 1 41 1 42 1 43 TOM FLYNN 1 44 SF 515.204 77 1 45 lh/jj/28
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