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PAG LIN 1 1 SENATE FILE 2329 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 RELATING TO CRIME VICTIMS, BY EXPANDING THE COMPENSATION 1 5 AVAILABLE FROM THE CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION PROGRAM TO 1 6 VICTIMS OF CRIME AND THEIR FAMILIES AND PROVIDING A CODE 1 7 EDITOR DIRECTIVE. 1 8 1 9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 10 1 11 Section 1. Section 912.6, Code 1997, is amended to read as 1 12 follows: 1 13 912.6 COMPUTATION OF COMPENSATION. 1 14 The department shall award compensation, as appropriate, 1 15 for any of the following economic losses incurred as a direct 1 16 result of an injury to or death of the victim: 1 17 1. Reasonable charges incurred for medical care not to 1 18 exceed ten thousand five hundred dollars. Reasonable charges 1 19 incurred for mental health care not to exceed three thousand 1 20 dollars which includes services provided by a psychologist 1 21 licensed under chapter 154B, a person holding at least a 1 22 master's degree in social work or counseling and guidance, or 1 23 a victim counselor as defined in section 236A.1. 1 24 2. Loss of income from work the victim would have 1 25 performed and for which the victim would have received 1 26 remuneration if the victim had not been injured, not to exceed 1 27 six thousand dollars. 1 28 3. Reasonable replacement value of clothing that is held 1 29 for evidentiary purposes not to exceed one hundred dollars. 1 30 4. Reasonable funeral and burial expenses not to exceed 1 31fiveseven thousand five hundred dollars. 1 32 5. Loss of support for dependents resulting from death or 1 33 a period of disability of the victim of sixty days or more not 1 34 to exceed two thousand dollars per dependentor a total of six1 35thousand dollars. 2 1 6. In the event of a victim's death, reasonable charges 2 2 incurred for counseling the victim's spouse, children, 2 3 parents, siblings, or persons cohabiting with or related by 2 4 blood or affinity to the victim if the counseling services are 2 5 provided by a psychologist licensed under chapter 154B, a 2 6 victim counselor as defined in section 236A.1, subsection 1, 2 7 or an individual holding at least a master's degree in social 2 8 work or counseling and guidance, and reasonable charges 2 9 incurred by such persons for medical care counseling provided 2 10 by a psychiatrist licensed under chapter 147 or 150A. The 2 11 allowable charges under this subsection shall not exceed three 2 12 thousand dollars per personor a total of six thousand dollars2 13per victim death. 2 14 7. In the event of a victim's death, reasonable charges 2 15 incurred for health care for the victim's spouse, children, 2 16 parents, siblings, or persons related by blood or affinity to 2 17 the victim not to exceed three thousand dollars per survivor. 2 18 8. In the event of a victim's death, loss of income from 2 19 work that, but for the death of the victim, would have been 2 20 earned by the victim's spouse, child, parent, sibling, or 2 21 person cohabiting with or related by blood or affinity to the 2 22 victim, not to exceed six thousand dollars. 2 238.9. Reasonable expenses incurred for cleaning the scene 2 24 of a homicide, if the scene is a residence, not to exceed one 2 25 thousand dollars. 2 269.10. Reasonable charges incurred for mental health care 2 27 for secondary victims which includes the services provided by 2 28 a psychologist licensed under chapter 154B, a person holding 2 29 at least a master's in social work, counseling, or a related 2 30 field, a victim counselor as defined in section 236A.1, or a 2 31 psychiatrist licensed under chapter 147, 148, or 150A. The 2 32 allowable charges under this subsection shall not exceed one 2 33 thousand dollars per secondary victimor a total of six2 34thousand dollars. 2 35 Sec. 2. PREVAILING AMENDMENTS AND CODE EDITOR DIRECTIVE. 3 1 1. Any amendments to section 232A.4, section 232.28, 3 2 subsections 10 and 11, sections 232.28A, 709.10, and 709.17, 3 3 section 904.108, subsection 6, and chapters 709B, 910A, and 3 4 912, Code and Code Supplement, enacted in any Acts of the 3 5 Seventy-seventh General Assembly, 1998 Session, shall prevail 3 6 over the repeal of those provisions in 1998 Iowa Acts, House 3 7 File 2527, as the reenactment of those provisions in new Code 3 8 chapter 915 in that Act is intended to be a continuation of 3 9 the prior statutes but is not intended to preclude further 3 10 amendment of those provisions. 3 11 2. The Code editor is therefore directed to apply and 3 12 harmonize any amendments enacted during the 1998 Session of 3 13 the Seventy-seventh General Assembly to section 232A.4, 3 14 section 232.28, subsections 10 and 11, sections 232.28A, 3 15 709.10, and 709.17, section 904.108, subsection 6, and 3 16 chapters 709B, 910A, and 912, Code and Code Supplement, to the 3 17 appropriate corresponding provisions of new Code chapter 915, 3 18 as enacted in 1998 Iowa Acts, House File 2527. 3 19 3. If amendments in other 1998 Iowa Acts to any of the 3 20 repealed sections and chapters or partially stricken sections 3 21 cannot easily be applied and harmonized to corresponding 3 22 provisions in new Code chapter 915, the amendments may be 3 23 included in a Code editor's bill to be submitted to the 3 24 general assembly which convenes in January 1999. 3 25 4. Notwithstanding subsection 1, the repeal of section 3 26 232.28A in section 81 of 1998 Iowa Acts, House File 2527, is 3 27 intended to prevail over the amendment of section 232.28A in 3 28 section 62 of that Act. 3 29 3 30 3 31 3 32 MARY E. KRAMER 3 33 President of the Senate 3 34 3 35 4 1 4 2 RON J. CORBETT 4 3 Speaker of the House 4 4 4 5 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and 4 6 is known as Senate File 2329, Seventy-seventh General Assembly. 4 7 4 8 4 9 4 10 MARY PAT GUNDERSON 4 11 Secretary of the Senate 4 12 Approved , 1998 4 13 4 14 4 15 4 16 TERRY E. BRANSTAD 4 17 Governor
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