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1 1 Amend Senate File 2280 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 6, by inserting after line 32 the
1 3 following:
1 4 "g. The department shall establish a task force to
1 5 evaluate current infectious disease laws in the state
1 6 and the extent to which they provide, or fail to
1 7 provide, a framework and foundation for promoting
1 8 public health. The task force shall conduct an
1 9 evaluation of the effectiveness of the infectious
1 10 disease laws, with the goal of making recommendations
1 11 for a comprehensive communicable disease statute
1 12 intended to improve local and state department of
1 13 public health responsiveness to needs for infectious
1 14 disease prevention, treatment, and education.
1 15 The task force shall be organized and administered
1 16 by the Iowa department of public health, and shall be
1 17 comprised of representatives from the department,
1 18 directors or representatives of county health
1 19 departments or boards, faculty members at the state
1 20 university of Iowa and the university of osteopathic
1 21 medicine and surgery who instruct or conduct research
1 22 in the area of infectious disease and public health,
1 23 physicians specializing in the identification and
1 24 treatment of infectious disease, members of the
1 25 general public, and additional members as determined
1 26 to be appropriate by the department. Four members of
1 27 the general assembly, one each from the majority and
1 28 minority parties, respectively, of each house of the
1 29 general assembly, shall be designated by the division
1 30 to serve as nonvoting ex officio members. The ex
1 31 officio members shall receive per diem and expenses
1 32 pursuant to section 2.12. Based on the
1 33 recommendations of the task force, the department
1 34 shall submit a report for the proposed contents of a
1 35 comprehensive communicable disease statute to the
1 36 governor and general assembly by January 1, 2000."
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1 40 PATRICIA HARPER
1 41 SF 2280.311 77
1 42 rn/cf/28
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