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House Journal: Page 934: Tuesday, April 1, 1997

Burnett        	Cataldo        	Chapman        	Chiodo        
	Cohoon         	Connors        	Dinkla         	Doderer       
	Dotzler        	Drees          	Falck          	Fallon        
	Foege          	Ford           	Frevert        	Holveck       
	Huser          	Jochum         	Kinzer         	Koenigs       
	Kreiman        	Larkin         	Mascher        	Moreland      
	Mundie         	Murphy         	Myers          	O'Brien       
	Osterhaus      	Reynolds-Knight	Richardson     	Scherrman     
	Schrader       	Shoultz        	Taylor         	Thomas        
	Warnstadt      	Weigel         	Whitead        	Wise          
	Witt           	
Absent or not voting, 1:
Blodgett       	
Amendment H-1480, as amended, was adopted.
Bradley of Clinton offered amendment H-1481 filed by Bradley,   
 et al., as follows:

H-1481

 1     Amend House File 693 as follows:
 2     1.  Page 4, by inserting before line 11 the
 3   following:
 4     "Sec. ___.  Section 614.1, subsection 9, Code 1997,
 5   is amended to read as follows:
 6     9.  MALPRACTICE.
 7     a.  Those Except as provided in paragraph "b",
 8   those founded on injuries to the person or wrongful
 9   death against any physician and surgeon, osteopath,
10   osteopathic physician and surgeon, dentist, podiatric
11   physician, optometrist, pharmacist, chiropractor,
12   physician assistant, or nurse, licensed under chapter
13   147, or a hospital licensed under chapter 135B,
14   arising out of patient care, within two years after
15   the date on which the claimant knew, or through the
16   use of reasonable diligence should have known, or
17   received notice in writing of the existence of, the
18   injury or death for which damages are sought in the
19   action, whichever of the dates occurs first, but in no
20   event shall any action be brought more than six years
21   after the date on which occurred the act or omission
22   or occurrence alleged in the action to have been the
23   cause of the injury or death unless a foreign object
24   unintentionally left in the body caused the injury or
25   death.
26     b.  An action subject to paragraph "a" and brought
27   on behalf of a minor who was under the age of six
28   years when the act, omission, or occurrence alleged in
29   the action occurred, shall be commenced no later than
30   the minor's eighth birthday.

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Index: House Journal (77th General Assembly: Session 1)

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