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Twenty-third Calendar Day - Sixteenth Session Day
Hall of the House of Representatives
Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, February 4, 1997
The House met pursuant to adjournment at 8:45 a.m., Speaker pro
tempore Van Maanen of Marion in the chair.
Prayer was offered by the Honorable Joseph Kremer, state
representative from Buchanan County.
The Journal of Monday, February 3, 1997 was approved.
PETITION FILED
The following petition was received and placed on file:
By Wise and Larkin of Lee, from sixty-two constituents opposing
House Study Bill 12, legislation relating to state employee pay
and health benefits.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
House File 144, by Nelson, Greiner, Kremer, Dinkla, Hahn,
Eddie, Teig, Arnold, Doderer, Foege, Whitead, Chiodo, May,
Mascher, Burnett, Taylor, Jacobs, Thomson, Larson, and Jochum, a
bill for an act creating a board of dental hygiene examiners.
Read first time and referred to committee on state government.
House File 145, by Wise, Cohoon, Foege, and Frevert, a bill
for an act relating to retirement incentive programs the board
of directors of a school district may offer and the age range of
the employees to whom the board may offer the program and
providing an applicability provision.
Read first time and referred to committee on state government.
House File 146, by Wise, Cataldo, Larkin, May, and
Warnstadt, a bill for an act relating to a reduction in aid to a
recipient of the family investment program for continued truancy
by a recipient's child, defining truancy as a delinquent act in
certain cases and providing a penalty, establishing a penalty
for providing aid, support, or shelter to a runaway, and
providing for a civil penalty for truancy and a conditional
effectiveness provision.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 147, by Weidman, a bill for an act increasing the
minimum value of property damage required for the filing of a
motor vehicle accident report.
Read first time and referred to committee on transportation.
House File 148, by Millage, a bill for an act relating to
schools that may be placed on a special accredited list of
college preparatory schools.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 149, by Koenigs, Scherrman, Osterhaus, Frevert,
Bukta, Foege, Myers, Drees, May, Connors, Schrader, Moreland,
Chiodo, Fallon, Reynolds-Knight, Mascher, Dotzler, Witt,
Richardson, Chapman, Kinzer, Murphy, Burnett, Taylor, and
Weigel, a bill for an act regulating animal feeding operations
located within agricultural drainage well basins and making
penalties applicable.
Read first time and referred to committee on agriculture.
House File 150, by Witt, Huseman, Thomas, and Klemme, a bill
for an act relating to the protection of blufflands by creating
a blufflands protection revolving fund, by empowering the soil
conservation division of the department of agriculture and land
stewardship to establish a blufflands protection program, by
making an appropriation for the provision of loans to certain
nonprofit conservation organizations, and by providing for other
properly related matters.
Read first time and referred to committee on natural resources.
On motion by Siegrist of Pottawattamie, the House was recessed
at 8:53 a.m., until 1:00 p.m.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The House reconvened at 1:00 p.m., Speaker Corbett in the chair.
QUORUM CALL
A non-record roll call was requested to determine that a quorum
was present. The vote revealed seventy-eight members present,
twenty-two absent.
The House stood at ease at 1:04 p.m., until the fall of the
gavel.
The House resumed session at 1:44 p.m., Speaker pro tempore Van
Maanen of Marion in the chair.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Leave of absence was granted as follows:
O'Brien of Boone on request of Mertz of Kossuth.
CONSIDERATION OF BILLS
Ways and Means Calendar
Senate File 35, a bill for an act eliminating the inheritance
tax on property passing to parents, grandparents,
great-grandparents, and other lineal ascendants, children
including legally adopted children and biological children
entitled to inherit under the laws of this state, stepchildren,
and grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and other lineal
descendants of the decedent and providing an applicability date
provision, was taken up for consideration.
Millage of Scott asked and received unanimous consent to
withdraw amendment H-1005 filed by him on January 30, 1997.
Shoultz of Black Hawk asked and received unanimous consent to
withdraw amendment H-1004 filed by him on January 30, 1997.
Shoultz of Black Hawk asked and received unanimous consent to
withdraw amendment H-1007 filed by him on February 3, 1997.
Huser of Polk offered the following amendment H-1006 filed by
her and Frevert of Palo Alto and moved its adoption:
H-1006
1 Amend Senate File 35, as passed by the Senate, as
2 follows:
3 1. Page 2, by striking lines 30 and 31 and
4 inserting the following:
5 "Sec. ___. This Act, being deemed of immediate
6 importance, takes effect upon enactment and applies to
7 estates of decedents dying on or after the effective
8 date."
Roll call was requested by Shoultz of Black Hawk and Siegrist of
Pottawattamie.
On the question "Shall amendment H-1006 be adopted?"
(S.F. 35)
The ayes were, 43:
Bell Brand Bukta Burnett
Cataldo Chapman Chiodo Cohoon
Connors Doderer Dotzler Drees
Falck Foege Ford Frevert
Holveck Huser Jochum Kinzer
Koenigs Kreiman Larkin Mascher
May Mertz Moreland Mundie
Murphy Myers Osterhaus Reynolds-Knight
Richardson Scherrman Schrader Shoultz
Taylor Thomas Warnstadt Weigel
Whitead Wise Witt
The nays were, 55:
Arnold Barry Blodgett Boddicker
Boggess Bradley Brauns Brunkhorst
Carroll Churchill Corbett, Spkr. Cormack
Dinkla Dix Dolecheck Drake
Eddie Fallon Garman Gipp
Greig Greiner Gries Grundberg
Hahn Hansen Heaton Holmes
Houser Huseman Jacobs Jenkins
Klemme Kremer Lamberti Larson
Lord Martin Metcalf Meyer
Millage Nelson Rants Rayhons
Siegrist Sukup Teig Thomson
Tyrrell Van Fossen Vande Hoef Veenstra
Weidman Welter Van Maanen
Presiding
Absent or not voting, 2:
Bernau O'Brien
Amendment H-1006 lost.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Leave of absence was granted as follows:
Bernau of Story on request of Brand of Tama.
Blodgett of Cerro Gordo moved that the bill be read a last time
now and placed upon its passage which motion prevailed and the
bill was read a last time.
On the question "Shall the bill pass?" (S.F. 35)
The ayes were, 96:
Arnold Barry Bell Blodgett
Boddicker Boggess Bradley Brand
Brauns Brunkhorst Bukta Burnett
Carroll Cataldo Chapman Chiodo
Churchill Cohoon Connors Corbett, Spkr.
Cormack Dinkla Dix Dolecheck
Dotzler Drake Drees Eddie
Falck Foege Ford Frevert
Garman Gipp Greig Greiner
Gries Grundberg Hahn Hansen
Heaton Holmes Holveck Houser
Huseman Huser Jacobs Jenkins
Jochum Kinzer Klemme Koenigs
Kreiman Kremer Lamberti Larkin
Larson Lord Martin Mascher
May Mertz Metcalf Meyer
Millage Moreland Mundie Murphy Myers
Nelson Osterhaus Rants Rayhons
Reynolds-Knight Richardson Scherrman Schrader
Shoultz Siegrist Sukup Taylor
Teig Thomas Thomson Tyrrell
Van Fossen Vande Hoef Veenstra
Warnstadt Weidman Weigel Welter
Whitead Wise Witt Van Maanen
Presiding
The nays were, 2:
Doderer Fallon
Absent or not voting, 2:
Bernau O'Brien
The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared
to have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
IMMEDIATE MESSAGE
Siegrist of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent
that Senate File 35 be immediately messaged to the Senate.
COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED
The following communications were received and filed in the
office of the Chief Clerk:
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Commission on the Status of Women
The 25th Annual Report, pursuant to Chapter 216A.149, Code of
Iowa.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
An Executive Summary on fiscal year 1996 Iowa Healthy Family
Program, pursuant to Chapter 135.77, Code of Iowa.
The PRIMECARRE Annual Report, pursuant to Chapter 135.107, Code
of Iowa.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
The 1996 Iowa Airport Sufficiency Ratings, pursuant to Chapter
328.12(11), Code of Iowa.
TREASURER OF STATE
The Linked Investments for Tomorrow Annual Report for the Year
1996, pursuant to Chapter 12.38, Code of Iowa.
The Linked Investment Annual Report for the Year 1996 for
targeted small businesses, main street, horticulture and
alternative crops, and rural small business transfer, pursuant
to Chapter 12.38, Code of Iowa.
CERTIFICATES OF RECOGNITION
MR. SPEAKER: The Chief Clerk of the House respectfully reports
that certificates of recognition have been issued as follows.
ELIZABETH A. ISAACSON
Chief Clerk of the House
1997\77 Amby Johnson, Clinton - For acting heroically in the
rescue of Grace and Dixie Hyde from their burning home.
1997\78 Keith May, Clinton - For acting heroically in the rescue
of Grace and Dixie Hyde from their burning home.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
House File 62
Judiciary: Boddicker, Chair; Chapman and Greiner.
House File 94
Judiciary: Greiner, Chair; Doderer and Kremer.
House File 98
Commerce-Regulation: Jacobs, Chair; Chapman and Dix.
House File 101
Judiciary: Veenstra, Chair; Bell and Lamberti.
House File 111
Labor and Industrial Relations: Sukup, Chair; Dotzler and
Millage.
House File 112
Commerce-Regulation: Churchill, Chair; Chapman and Dix.
House File 115
Commerce-Regulation: Sukup, Chair; Cataldo and Hansen.
House File 118
Labor and Industrial Relations: Sukup, Chair; Dix and Murphy.
House File 122
Education: Boddicker, Chair; Bukta and Metcalf.
House File 123
Education: Grundberg, Chair; Brand and Thomson.
House File 124
Commerce-Regulation: Bradley, Chair; Dix and Wise.
House File 133
Commerce-Regulation: Jacobs, Chair; Bradley, Hansen, Koenigs and
Weigel.
House File 136
Transportation: Cormack, Chair; Brauns and Scherrman.
House File 137
Local Government: Weidman, Chair; Mundie and Van Maanen.
House File 141
Education: Rants, Chair; Gries and Wise.
House File 142
Natural Resources: Eddie, Chair; Dolecheck and Mertz.
House File 143
Local Government: Martin, Chair; Richardson and Van Maanen.
HOUSE STUDY BILL SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
House Study Bill 39
Judiciary: Lamberti, Chair; Larson and Moreland.
House Study Bill 42
Labor and Industrial Relations: Dix, Chair; Kremer and Taylor.
House Study Bill 43
Education: Gries, Chair; Brand and Thomson.
House Study Bill 44
Education: Metcalf, Chair; Grundberg and Mascher.
House Study Bill 45
Education: Grundberg, Chair; Thomas and Thomson.
House Study Bill 57
Education: Rants, Chair; Foege and Lord.
House Study Bill 62
Human Resources: Vande Hoef, Chair; Thomas and Veenstra.
House Study Bill 64
Natural Resources: Klemme, Chair; Huseman and O'Brien.
House Study Bill 65
Natural Resources: Arnold, Chair; Brauns and Frevert.
House Study Bill 68
Labor and Industrial Relations: Boddicker, Chair; Falck and
Klemme.
House Study Bill 73
Judiciary: Sukup, Chair; Churchill and Kreiman.
House Study Bill 74
Judiciary: Sukup, Chair; Churchill and Kreiman.
House Study Bill 75
Judiciary: Sukup, Chair; Churchill and Kreiman.
House Study Bill 76
Judiciary: Sukup, Chair; Churchill and Kreiman.
House Study Bill 77
Judiciary: Sukup, Chair; Churchill and Kreiman.
House Study Bill 78
Judiciary: Sukup, Chair; Churchill and Kreiman.
HOUSE STUDY BILL COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
H.S.B. 79 Local Government
Relating to the joint financing of public works and facilities.
H.S.B. 80 Local Government
Relating to discarding solid waste and providing a penalty.
H.S.B. 81 Local Government
Relating to the determination of annual salaries for deputy
sheriffs.
H.S.B. 82 Local Government
Relating to mobile home tenant eviction restrictions.
H.S.B. 83 Labor and Industrial Relations
Relating to subject matter under the regulatory authority of the
labor commissioner, including the construction contractors law,
and making nonsubstantive Code corrections relating to the child
labor law.
H.S.B. 84 Local Government
Establishing a county issuance of motor vehicle licenses study
and providing effective dates.
H.S.B. 85 Appropriations
Relating to and making appropriations to state agencies whose
responsibilities relate to transportation including allocation
and use of moneys from the road use tax fund and primary road
fund and making appropriations to various agencies for capital
projects.
H.S.B. 86 Appropriations
Relating to and making appropriations to certain state
departments, agencies, funds, and certain other entities,
providing for regulatory authority, transferring lottery
revenues to the general fund of the state, and other properly
related matters and providing effective dates.
H.S.B. 87 Appropriations
Relating to appropriations for the department of human services,
prevention of disabilities policy council, and state foster care
review board, and including other provisions and appropriations
involving human services and health care.
H.S.B. 88 Labor and Industrial Relations
Relating to workers' compensation benefits for permanent
disabilities concerning the employer's liability for an
employee's preexisting injury, condition, or illness.
H.S.B. 89 Labor and Industrial Relations
Relating to workers' compensation benefits for professional
athletes and providing an effective date.
H.S.B. 90 Labor and Industrial Relations
Relating to state government personnel procedures including job
classifications, pay plans, employee recall from layoff, and
abolishing the personnel commission.
H.S.B. 91 Human Resources
Prohibiting the performance of partial-birth abortions,
establishing a cause of action for violation of the prohibition,
and providing penalties.
H.S.B. 92 Commerce-Regulation
Relating to the availability of a map indicating the location of
electric transmission lines related to the extension of a
franchise.
H.S.B. 93 Local Government
Relating to state reimbursement of county costs for certain
prisoners after entry of judgment in a criminal case.
H.S.B. 94 Local Government
Relating to sanitary district elections.
H.S.B. 95 Commerce-Regulation
Amending the uniform securities Act relating to the registration
of securities and the registration of broker-dealers and agents,
establishing fees, and providing an effective date.
H.S.B. 96 Human Resources
Relating to the establishment of a domestic abuse death review
team including providing for membership, duties, immunity for
members acting in their official capacity, and providing
confidentiality provisions.
H.S.B. 97 Education
Relating to tuition and fees charged by public school districts
and to tuition and fee waiver rules for indigent families, and
providing an immediate effective date.
AMENDMENTS FILED
H_1009 H.F. 108 Taylor of Linn
H_1010 H.F. 108 Kinzer of Scott
H_1011 H.F. 126 Chapman of Linn
On motion by Siegrist of Pottawattamie, the House adjourned at
3:07 p.m., until 8:45 a.m., Wednesday, February 5, 1997.
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