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Sixtieth Calendar Day - Forty-first Session Day
Hall of the House of Representatives
Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, March 13, 1997
The House met pursuant to adjournment at 8:53 a.m., Speaker pro
tempore Van Maanen of Marion in the chair.
Prayer was offered by Paul von Ebers, Churches United of Des
Moines, Des Moines.
The Journal of Wednesday, March 12, 1997 was approved.
PETITIONS FILED
By Bernau of Story, from thirty-one constituents of the 62nd
District favoring "Enrich Iowa: Fund Libraries."
By Bernau of Story, from fifty-four constituents of the 62nd
District opposing the death penalty.
By Shoultz of Black Hawk, from four hundred thirty-one bus
patrons and drivers favoring adequate funding for mass transit.
By Wise of Lee, from fifty-two constituents of the 98th District
favoring the "Enrich Iowa: Fund Libraries."
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
House File 595, by Sukup, a bill for an act concerning
compliance with the terms of an employee pension plan and
providing a penalty.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
House File 596, by committee on commerce-regulation, a bill for
an act authorizing the utilities board to issue certificates of
public convenience and necessity to municipal telecommunications
utilities, regulating certain municipal utilities as competitive
local exchange service providers, and including effective date
and retroactive applicability provisions.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 597, by committee on education, a bill for an act
relating to school attendance and interagency efforts to address
children's problems by applying school attendance requirements
under the family investment program, providing for interagency
agreements, and providing a civil penalty for truancy.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 598, by committee on education, a bill for an act
establishing the enrich Iowa program for eligible public
libraries and making an appropriation.
Read first time and referred to committee on appropriations.
House File 599, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act
relating to dispositional orders pertaining to certain
delinquent children by expanding the criteria for state training
school placements and providing for extension of dispositional
orders to allow completion of sexual abusers treatment programs.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 600, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act
relating to notification of school officials of citations of
juveniles for certain criminal offenses.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 601, by committee on natural resources, a bill for an
act relating to the development and use of certain public lands
for multipurpose trails.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 602, by Reynolds-Knight, a bill for an act relating
to the profession of naturopathy and making penalties applicable.
Read first time and referred to committee on state government.
House File 603, by Mertz, a bill for an act relating to the
state sales tax exemption for the purchase of horses.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
House File 604, by Nelson, a bill for an act relating to the
renewal and suspension or revocation of liquor control licenses
and wine and beer permits by local authorities.
Read first time and referred to committee on local government.
House File 605, by Witt, a bill for an act providing for
mandatory licensure for marital and family therapists and mental
health counselors.
Read first time and referred to committee on state government.
House File 606, by Doderer, a bill for an act defining
domestic abuse to include acts of harassment, and permitting the
issuance of no-contact orders for acts of harassment in domestic
abuse circumstances.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
House File 607, by Heaton, a bill for an act relating to the
process for creation of aviation authorities.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
House File 608, by Greig, a bill for an act relating to the
appraisal of land and real estate being negotiated for purchase
by the department of natural resources.
Read first time and referred to committee on natural resources.
House File 609, by Fallon, a bill for an act relating to
joint tenancy for real property owned by spouses.
Read first time and referred to committee on commerce-regulation.
House File 610, by Fallon, a bill for an act relating to the
liability for unpaid rates or charges of a city utility or
enterprise service for water, sewage, and solid waste services.
Read first time and referred to committee on commerce-regulation.
House File 611, by committee on commerce-regulation, a bill
for an act relating to permissible charges which may be
contracted for and received with respect to open-end credit.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 612, by committee on human resources, a bill for
an act relating to child support recovery, providing penalties,
and providing effective dates.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 613, by committee on commerce-regulation, a bill
for an act relating to linked deposit investment programs.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 614, by committee on local government, a bill for
an act relating to the issuance of marriage licenses by county
registrars and providing an effective date.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 615, by committee on natural resources, a bill
for an act relating to abandoned coal mines expenditures,
including reclamation of land and drainage abatement.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 616, by committee on local government, a bill for
an act relating to instruments filed or recorded with the county
recorder.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 617, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act
relating to the possession of curio or relic firearms by members
of certain organizations.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 618, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act
relating to state reimbursement for expenses of attorneys
provided to indigent persons in juvenile court.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 619, by Reynolds-Knight, a bill for an act
providing for the exemption of barber and beauty services from
the tax imposed on gross taxable services.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
House File 620, by Larson, a bill for an act relating to
establishing a prepaid tuition program that provides for
individual savings accounts to be used for higher education
tuition expenses, providing income tax exemptions for earnings
of the account, and including an effective and retroactive
applicability date provision.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
House File 621, by Larson, a bill for an act relating to an
exemption from the sales, services, and use taxes for nonprofit
hospitals licensed in the state.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
House File 622, by Rayhons and Bukta, a bill for an act
prohibiting the scheduling of extracurricular activities after a
certain hour on Wednesday evenings and providing an
applicability date.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 623, by Mundie, a bill for an act providing for
the levy of assessments and related tax deductibility, and the
creation and administration of a fund to support the financing
of improvements within drainage districts.
Read first time and referred to committee on agriculture.
House File 624, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act
appropriating funds to the judicial department to establish a
pilot court information project.
Read first time and referred to committee on appropriations.
House File 625, by committee on education, a bill for an act
relating to the activities of the department of education,
vocational education, community colleges, special educational
programs provided by area education agencies, payment of claims
for nonpublic school pupil transportation, the school budget
review committee, the enrollment of certain students, and annual
audits of school districts.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 626, by committee on local government, a bill for
an act relating to the property tax levy allowed certain fire
districts.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
House File 627, by Falck, a bill for an act relating to loan
reimbursement payments to a person who teaches in a designated
teacher shortage area.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 628, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act
relating to corporations by providing for the call of special
meetings of shareholders, for the combination of a corporation
and certain shareholders, and for certain merger and share
acquisitions.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 629, by Taylor, a bill for an act relating to
drug testing of certain employees and applicants for employment,
providing for employer reporting of testing, and making remedies
applicable.
Read first time and referred to committee on labor and
industrial relations.
CONSIDERATION OF BILLS
Appropriations Calendar
Senate File 82, a bill for an act relating to energy
conservation including making appropriations of petroleum
overcharge funds, was taken up for consideration.
Sukup of Franklin 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. 82)
The ayes were, 98:
Arnold Barry Bell Bernau
Blodgett Boddicker Boggess Bradley
Brand Brauns Brunkhorst Bukta Burnett
Carroll Cataldo Chapman Churchill
Cohoon Connors Corbett, Spkr. Cormack
Dinkla Dix Doderer Dolecheck
Dotzler Drake Drees Eddie
Falck Fallon 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
O'Brien Osterhaus Rants Rayhons
Reynolds-Knight Richardson Scherrman Schrader
Shoultz Siegrist Sukup Taylor
Teig Thomas Tyrrell Van Fossen
Vande Hoef Veenstra Warnstadt Weidman
Weigel Welter Whitead Wise
Witt Van Maanen,
Presiding
The nays were, none.
Absent or not voting, 2:
Chiodo Thomson
The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared
to have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
Regular Calendar
House File 370, a bill for an act relating to workers'
compensation benefits for professional athletes and providing an
effective date, was taken up for consideration.
Lamberti of Polk offered the following amendment H-1157 filed by
him and moved its adoption:
H-1157
1 Amend House File 370 as follows:
2 1. Page 1, by striking lines 9 through 10 and
3 inserting the following: "performed."
4 2. Page 1, by striking lines 28 through 31.
Amendment H-1157 was adopted.
Lamberti of Polk asked and received unanimous consent to
withdraw amendment H-1134 filed by him on March 4, 1997.
Lamberti of Polk offered the following amendment H-1139 filed by
him and moved its adoption:
H-1139
1 Amend House File 370 as follows:
2 1. Page 1, line 14, by striking the words "this
3 section" and inserting the following: "subsection 2,
4 paragraph "u"".
Amendment H-1139 was adopted.
Lamberti of Polk 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?" (H.F. 370)
The ayes were, 99:
Arnold Barry Bell Bernau Blodgett
Boddicker Boggess Bradley
Brand Brauns Brunkhorst Bukta Burnett
Carroll Cataldo Chapman
Chiodo Churchill Cohoon Connors Corbett,
Spkr. Cormack Dinkla Dix
Doderer Dolecheck Dotzler Drake
Drees Eddie Falck Fallon
Foege Ford Frevert Garman
Gipp Greig Greiner Gries
Grundberg Hahn Hansen Heaton
Holmes Holveck Houser Huseman
Huser Jacobs Jenkins Jochum
Kinzer Klemme Koenigs Kreiman
Lamberti Larkin Larson Lord
Martin Mascher May Mertz
Metcalf Meyer Millage Moreland
Mundie Murphy Myers Nelson
O'Brien 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, none.
Absent or not voting, 1:
Kremer
The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared
to have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
HOUSE FILE 198 WITHDRAWN
Siegrist of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent
to withdraw House File 198 from further consideration by the
House.
IMMEDIATE MESSAGES
Siegrist of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent
that the following bills be immediately messaged to the Senate:
Senate File 82 and House File 370.
House File 320, a bill for an act increasing the exceptions to
the registration requirements for postsecondary schools, and
eliminating an exemption for nondegree specialty vocational
training programs from the accreditation requirement for
postsecondary schools, was taken up for consideration.
Metcalf of Polk 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?" (H.F. 320)
The ayes were, 99:
Arnold Barry Bell Bernau
Blodgett Boddicker Boggess Bradley
Brand Brauns Brunkhorst Bukta Burnett
Carroll Cataldo Chapman Chiodo
Churchill Cohoon Connors Corbett,
Spkr. Cormack Dinkla Dix Doderer
Dolecheck Dotzler Drake Drees
Eddie Falck Fallon
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 Myers Nelson O'Brien
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, none.
Absent or not voting, 1:
Murphy
The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared
to have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
House File 384, a bill for an act to include certain products
containing ephedrine as schedule V controlled substances, was
taken up for consideration.
Veenstra of Sioux 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?" (H.F. 384)
The ayes were, 100:
Arnold Barry Bell Bernau
Blodgett Boddicker Boggess Bradley
Brand Brauns Brunkhorst Bukta Burnett
Carroll Cataldo Chapman Chiodo
Churchill Cohoon Connors Corbett,
Spkr. Cormack Dinkla Dix Doderer
Dolecheck Dotzler Drake Drees
Eddie Falck Fallon 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 O'Brien 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, none.
Absent or not voting, none.
The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared
to have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
IMMEDIATE MESSAGES
Siegrist of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent
that the following bills be immediately messaged to the Senate:
House Files 320 and 384.
HOUSE FILE 516 REREFERRED
The Speaker announced that House File 516, previously referred
to committee on human resources was rereferred to committee on
local government.
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Osterhaus of Jackson presented to the House, Mr. and Mrs. John
Ware from Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Ware is the Past National
President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and the
present Director Regional of Continuing Pharmacy Education of
the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
Mr. Lee Ping Koh, the National Manager of Retail Services for
the Faulding Healthcare Services Party Limited, from Adelaid,
Australia, addressed the House.
In celebration of "March Women's History Month", the Iowa
Commission on the Status of Women, the Iowa Department of
Education and the State Historical Society of Iowa sponsored a
"Write Women Back Into History" essay contest. Grundberg of Polk
presented the following winners of the contest:
Sixth and Seventh Grade Category
First Place _ Abby Cox, Sidney Community School, Sidney, for her
essay about Evelyn Birkby a popular radio personality from
Shenandoah.
Second Place _ Asche Rider, Harmony Middle School, Farmington,
for her essay about her great-grandmother, Mary Nancy Lanman
who championed the education of girls, women-owned businesses
and the right for women to vote.
Third Place _ Kimberly Park, Eisenhower Middle School, Dubuque,
for her essay about Pamela Park, her mother who is a breast
cancer survivor who voluntarily counsels women who have been
diagnosed with breast cancer.
Eighth and Ninth Grade Category
First Place _ Jeannette Neumann, Central Academy, Des Moines,
for her essay about her grandmother, Phoebe Jackson Montgomery,
who devised nutritional standards for a children's home in Cedar
Rapids and helped start the local school lunch program.
Second Place _ Nathan Uelner, Jefferson Junior High School,
Dubuque, for his essay about Nancy Van Milligan, who after being
a foster parent for nearly ten years helped by volunteering on
the Iowa Citizen's Foster Care Review Board.
Third Place _ Amanda Jo Miller, Red Oak Middle School, Red Oak,
for her essay about Flossie Jacks who dedicated her life to
helping others. She volunteered for the American Red Cross for
24 years.
The Edith Rose Murphy Sackett Award-Brynne Leah Howard of Van
Meter, for her essay about Sister Gwen Hennessey who worked with
migrant farm workers on peace and justice issues.
Also: David White, Central Academy, Des Moines for his essay on
Nadean Hamilton who served on the board of the League of Women
Voters of Iowa and has been appointed to numerous Des Moines and
State Boards and commissions.
The Women in Science and Engineering Award
Sixth and Seventh Grade Category
First Place _ Bridget Kearney, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary
School, Iowa City, for her essay on Mildred Adams Fenton, a
paleontologist who wrote books for children in an effort to
stimulate them into becoming paleontologists, geologists, and
biologists.
Second Place _ Josiah Ditzler, Washington Township Elementary
School, Kalona, for his essay on Mae C. Jemison who was accepted
into the NASA program, and as a science mission specialist was
the first African-American woman to go into space.
Third Place _ Alison Henderson, Kirn Junior High School, Council
Bluffs, for her essay on Jeanne Burns who taught science for 19
years and advises, and works with many extracurricular
activities.
BILLS SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR
A communication was received from the Governor announcing that
on March 13, 1997, he approved and transmitted to the Secretary
of State the following bills:
House File 125, an act appropriating federal block grant funds
and amending appropriations from the general fund of the state
to the Department of Human Services for the state fiscal year
beginning July 1, 1996, and providing an effective date.
Senate File 160, an act relating to funds held by life insurance
companies and providing an effective date.
PRESENTATION OF VISITORS
The Speaker announced that the following visitors were present
in the House chamber:
The 4-H County Council from Jackson County, accompanied by Wanda
Cornelius, wife of the former Representative Jerry Cornelius.
By Osterhaus of Jackson.
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\229 John Herman Solomon, Sioux City - For celebrating his
96th birthday.
1997\230 David Mead, Storm Lake - For attaining the rank of
Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America.
1997\231 Arlene Hopkins, Camanche - For celebrating her 85th
birthday.
1997\232 Doris and Roman Jungen, Clinton - For celebrating their
50th wedding anniversary.
1997\233 Lois and Jim Birely, Camanche - For celebrating their
50th wedding anniversary.
1997\234 Evelyn and Johnie Witt, Goose Lake - For celebrating
their 50th wedding anniversary.
1997\235 Mr. and Mrs. Orville Hicks, Dunlap - For celebrating
their 50th wedding anniversary.
1997\236 Elaine and Marion Coberly, Missouri Valley - For
celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary.
1997\237 Darlene and Glenn McKimpson, Osceola - For celebrating
their 50th wedding anniversary.
1997\238 Helen and Dale McKnight, Osceola - For celebrating
their 50th wedding anniversary.
1997\239 Phyllis and Neal Stump, Osceola - For celebrating their
50th wedding anniversary.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
House File 562
Agriculture: Boggess, Chair; Huseman and Kreiman.
House File 568
Agriculture: Huseman, Chair; Klemme and Scherrman.
House File 583
Agriculture: Greig, Chair; Frevert and Hahn.
House File 623
Agriculture: Mundie, Chair; Mertz and Teig.
HOUSE STUDY BILL SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
House Study Bill 231
Environmental Protection: Meyer, Chair; Drake and Fallon.
House Study Bill 232
Human Resources: Boddicker, Chair; Lord and Murphy.
House Study Bill 233
Human Resources: Boddicker, Chair; Carroll and Murphy.
House Study Bill 234
Human Resources: Boddicker, Chair; Brand and Lord.
House Study Bill 235
Commerce-Regulation: Dix, Chair; Holveck and Metcalf.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
MR. SPEAKER: The Chief Clerk of the House respectfully reports
that the following committee recommendations have been received
and are on file in the office of the Chief Clerk.
ELIZABETH A. ISAACSON
Chief Clerk of the House
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
House File 336, a bill for an act providing for the assessment
of lands owned by the department of natural resources within
levee and drainage districts.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 411), changing election and
appointment provisions relating to the secretary of agriculture.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 461), extending the
provisions relating to the eradication of brucellosis to apply
to animals other than bovine animals, and making penalties
applicable, and providing an effective date.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 213), relating to
statutory references to the Iowa beef industry council and
increasing an excise tax on beef cattle upon a referendum.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Committee Bill, appropriating funds to the department of
economic development, certain board of regents institutions, the
department of workforce development, the public employment
relations board, making statutory changes, and providing an
effective date.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 13, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 46), to establish
separate recycling funds for each prison institution within the
state treasury and making related changes.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 13, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE-REGULATION
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 197), relating to an
alternative price regulation plan for certain local exchange
carriers, providing for related matters, and providing an
effective date.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 13, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 235), relating to the
requirements for portability and continuity of health care
coverage for individuals among certain types of health care
coverage, and related matters.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 13, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 157), providing a
waiver of capital investment requirements under the new jobs and
income program.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 219), relating to
investments in counties and cities by providing for the
establishment of enterprise zones in areas of counties and
cities for which tax incentives and assistance are available for
eligible businesses locating or located in the enterprise zone.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
House File 319, a bill for an act expanding the age range of the
employees to whom the board of directors of a school district
may offer a retirement incentive program, expanding the
conditions under which the district may utilize the district
management levy to pay for the program, and providing effective
and retroactive applicability provisions.
Fiscal Note is required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 216), creating an
environmental audit privilege and providing penalties.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 417), relating to the
collection and recycling of motor oil filters.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 218), relating to
financial assurance requirements for waste tire collection and
processing sites.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 420), relating to health
care facilities by requiring employment checks of health care
facility employees.
Fiscal Note is required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 11, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 194), creating a
caregiver recruitment and retention pilot program, and making an
appropriation.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 13, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 232), relating to the
criteria for issuance of handicapped special plates and making a
civil penalty applicable.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 13, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 233), relating to
child abuse information and the central registry for child abuse
information maintained by the department of human services and
providing an effective date.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 13, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
House Resolution 7, a resolution to request an interim study
regarding the use of community service in Iowa's criminal and
juvenile justice system.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 276), to consider the use of
less lethal munitions by peace officers not a use of deadly
force.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 468), relating to the
adjudication and sentencing of certain criminal offenders, by
providing for notice and hearings on reconsiderations of
sentence, and eliminating certain sexual offenders from
eligibility for suspended or deferred sentences or deferred
judgments.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 229), relating to the
defense of criminal charges, by making changes in the provisions
and procedures applicable to the appointment of counsel for
indigent persons, providing for the establishment of an indigent
defense commission and indigent defense fee account, making
changes in the penalties applicable to certain offenses for
which appointment of counsel is required, providing county
attorneys or their designees with access to the centralized
employee registry for purposes of collection of restitution,
providing for the distribution of certain proceeds from
forfeited property, making changes relating to the determination
of a person's indigency, prohibiting the submission of false
information on an affidavit of financial status, requiring the
state to enforce liens for restitution in criminal cases, and
providing penalties.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
House File 523, a bill for an act relating to the Iowa
occupational safety and health law concerning the imposition of
certain civil penalties on certain governmental employers for
emergencies.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
House File 589, a bill for an act relating to professional
boxing and wrestling matches, providing for properly related
matters, and providing for a tax and for penalties.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 202), relating to
workers' compensation by repealing the second injury
compensation Act, eliminating the second injury fund, providing
for the resolution of claims against the fund, including the
imposition of an employer surcharge, and providing an effective
date.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT
House File 332, a bill for an act concerning the condemnation of
private property by owners of land without a public way to the
land.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass with amendment H-1166 March 12,
1997.
House File 392, a bill for an act relating to the extension of
time during which an alternative surcharge may be imposed for
E911.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
House File 484, a bill for an act relating to installment
payments for assessments by drainage districts.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
House File 485, a bill for an act relating to drainage districts
by eliminating notice by petitioning landowners regarding the
establishment of subdistricts.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
House File 507, a bill for an act relating to the issuance or
renewal of liquor control licenses and wine and beer permits by
local authorities.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 79), relating to the
joint financing of public works and facilities.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES
House File 569, a bill for an act relating to hunting of deer in
parties of hunters.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 13, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 312), relating to tip-up
fishing in the waters of the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers and
subjecting violators to an existing penalty.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 13, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT
House File 439, a bill for an act relating to the development of
a repository for criminal history, abuse and sex offender
registries, and nurse aide and other health profession
certification and licensing information.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass with amendment H-1168 March 12,
1997.
House File 543, a bill for an act relating to possible payment
by the state for police and fire protection provided by the city
of Des Moines for state-owned property located within the city.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Committee Action: Failed to Pass March 13, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 206), relating to the
regulation of the practice of respiratory care.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 225), relating to
certain procedures of the ethics and campaign disclosure board
and filing requirements and certain requirements for use of
campaign funds.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 102), relating to special
minors' licenses and transportation to and from school and
providing an effective date.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 170), relating to
county regulation of road rights-of-way.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 209), relating to
handicapped parking permits by providing for nonexpiring
removable windshield placards for persons with a lifelong
disability, eliminating the requirement that physicians or
chiropractors sign removable windshield placards, and
eliminating certain identification requirements for handicapped
persons.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 223), relating to
motor vehicle damage disclosure statements.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 12, 1997.
COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
Senate File 83, a bill for an act relating to property taxation
of property given to the state or a political subdivision upon
which a life estate is retained.
Fiscal Note is required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass with amendment H-1172 March 12,
1997.
RESOLUTION FILED
HCR 18, by Mascher, Blodgett, Bradley, Chapman, Cohoon, Doderer,
Drake, Foege, Ford, Grundberg, Hansen, Holveck, Jenkins,
Kreiman, Larson, Martin, Millage, Moreland, Myers, Nelson,
Richardson, Weigel, and Wise, a concurrent resolution
recognizing the 150th anniversary of the founding of the
University of Iowa.
Laid over under Rule 25.
AMENDMENTS FILED
H_1165 H.F. 334 Kremer of Buchanan
H_1166 H.F. 332 Committee on Local
Government
H_1167 S.F. 58 Warnstadt of Woodbury
Whitead of Woodbury
H_1168 H.F. 439 Committee on State
Government
H_1169 H.F. 223 Kreiman of Davis
H_1170 H.F. 546 Kreiman of Davis
H_1171 S.F. 128 Grundberg of Polk
Burnett of Story Connors of Polk
Metcalf of Polk Mascher of Johnson
Brand of Tama Jacobs of Polk
Doderer of Johnson Nelson of Marshall
Martin of Scott Jochum of Dubuque
H_1172 S.F. 83 Committee on Ways and
Means
On motion by Siegrist of Pottawattamie, the House adjourned at
9:36 a.m., until 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 14, 1997.
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