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Senate File 280

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  1  1                                         SENATE FILE 280
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 PROVIDING IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY FOR AN EMPLOYER OR
  1  5    EMPLOYER'S REPRESENTATIVE WHO ACTS REASONABLY IN 
  1  6    PROVIDING WORK-RELATED INFORMATION ABOUT A CURRENT OR 
  1  7    FORMER EMPLOYEE OF THE EMPLOYER.  
  1  8 
  1  9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 
  1 10 
  1 11    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  91B.2  INFORMATION PROVIDED BY
  1 12 EMPLOYERS ABOUT CURRENT OR FORMER EMPLOYEES – IMMUNITY.
  1 13    1.  An employer or an employer's representative who, upon
  1 14 request by or authorization of a current or former employee or
  1 15 upon request made by a person who in good faith is believed to
  1 16 be a representative of a prospective employer of a current or
  1 17 former employee, provides work-related information about a
  1 18 current or former employee, is immune from civil liability
  1 19 unless the employer or the employer's representative acted
  1 20 unreasonably in providing the work-related information.
  1 21    2.  For purposes of this section, an employer acts
  1 22 unreasonably if any of the following are present:
  1 23    a.  The work-related information violates a civil right of
  1 24 the current or former employee.
  1 25    b.  The work-related information knowingly is provided to a
  1 26 person who has no legitimate and common interest in receiving
  1 27 the work-related information.
  1 28    c.  The work-related information is not relevant to the
  1 29 inquiry being made, is provided with malice, or is provided
  1 30 with no good faith belief that it is true.
  1 31    3.  For purposes of this section, "employer" and "employee"
  1 32 are defined as provided in section 91A.2.  
  1 33 
  1 34 
  1 35                                                             
  2  1                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2  2                               President of the Senate
  2  3 
  2  4 
  2  5                                                             
  2  6                               RON J. CORBETT
  2  7                               Speaker of the House
  2  8 
  2  9    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
  2 10 is known as Senate File 280, Seventy-seventh General Assembly.
  2 11 
  2 12 
  2 13                                                             
  2 14                               MARY PAT GUNDERSON
  2 15                               Secretary of the Senate
  2 16 Approved                , 1997
  2 17 
  2 18 
  2 19                         
  2 20 TERRY E. BRANSTAD
  2 21 Governor
     

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