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Senate Amendment 3547

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend the amendment, S-3477, to House File 698, as
  1  2 amended, passed, and reprinted by the House, as
  1  3 follows:
  1  4    #1.  Page 2, by inserting after line 42 the
  1  5 following:
  1  6    "c.  Any written record made by the department or
  1  7 an employee of the department in an investigation or
  1  8 assessment of a report of a child abuse."
  1  9    #2.  Page 10, by inserting after line 40 the
  1 10 following:
  1 11    "Sec. ___.  Section 235A.20, Code 1997, is amended
  1 12 to read as follows:
  1 13    235A.20  CIVIL REMEDY.
  1 14    Any aggrieved person may institute a civil action
  1 15 for damages under chapter 669 or 670 or to restrain
  1 16 the dissemination of child abuse information in
  1 17 violation of this chapter, and any person, agency or
  1 18 other recipient proven to have disseminated or to have
  1 19 requested and received child abuse information in
  1 20 violation of this chapter, or any employee of the
  1 21 department who destroys investigation or assessment
  1 22 data except in accordance with rule as established by
  1 23 the department for retention of child abuse
  1 24 information under section 235A.18 shall be liable for
  1 25 actual damages and exemplary damages for each
  1 26 violation and shall be liable for court costs,
  1 27 expenses, and reasonable attorney's fees incurred by
  1 28 the party bringing the action.  In no case shall the
  1 29 award for damages be less than one hundred dollars.
  1 30    Sec. ___.  Section 235A.21, subsection 1, Code
  1 31 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1 32    1.  Any person who willfully requests, obtains, or
  1 33 seeks to obtain child abuse information under false
  1 34 pretenses, or who willfully communicates or seeks to
  1 35 communicate child abuse information to any agency or
  1 36 person except in accordance with sections 235A.15 and
  1 37 235A.17, or any person connected with any research
  1 38 authorized pursuant to section 235A.15 who willfully
  1 39 falsifies child abuse information or any records
  1 40 relating thereto to child abuse information, or any
  1 41 employee of the department who destroys investigation
  1 42 or assessment data except in accordance with rule as
  1 43 established by the department for retention of child
  1 44 abuse information under section 235A.18 is guilty of a
  1 45 serious misdemeanor.  Any person who knowingly, but
  1 46 without criminal purposes, communicates or seeks to
  1 47 communicate child abuse information except in
  1 48 accordance with sections 235A.15 and 235A.17 shall be
  1 49 guilty of a simple misdemeanor.""
  1 50    #3.  By renumbering as necessary.  
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  2  3                               
  2  4 STEVE KING 
  2  5 HF 698.301 77
  2  6 jp/cf/28
     

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