Senate Journal: Monday, February 3, 1997

  TWENTY-SECOND CALENDAR DAY
  THIRTEENTH SESSION DAY

  Senate Chamber
  Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, February 3, 1997

  The Senate met in regular session at 1:09 p.m., President Kramer
  presiding.

  Prayer was offered by the Reverend Michael Marcum, pastor of the First
  Baptist Church, Elk Horn, Iowa.

  The Journal of Thursday, January 30, 1997, was approved.

  LEAVES OF ABSENCE

  Leaves of absence were granted as follows:

  Senators Flynn and Hansen for the day on request of Senator Gronstal;
  Senator
  Angelo for today and tomorrow on the request of Senator McKibben, and
  Senator
  Hedge for the week on request of Senator Iverson.

  INTRODUCTION OF BILL

  Senate File 99, by Maddox, a bill for an act relating to the
  applicability period for professional engineering and land surveyor
  licensure requirements.

  Read first time and passed on file.

  RECESS

  On motion of Senator Iverson, the Senate recessed at 1:13 p.m.,
  until 5:00 p.m.
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  APPENDIX

  APPROP. SUBCOMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATION AND REGULATION

  Convened: January 30, 1997, 9:50 a.m.

  Members Present: Bartz, Vice Chair; McCoy, Ranking Member; J. Black and
  Gettings.

  Members Absent: Lundby, Chair (excused).

  Committee Business: Budget presentations by the department of management and
  department of personnel.

  Adjourned: 10:50 a.m.

  APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL
  RESOURCES

  Convened: January 30, 1997, 9:50 a.m.

  Members Present: Rensink, Vice Chair; D. Black, Ranking Member; Behn and
  Dearden.

  Members Absent: Hedge, Chair (excused).

  Committee Business: Presentations by the director of the division of soil
  conservation and the director of the regulatory division of the department
  of
  agriculture and land stewardship.

  Adjourned: 11:30 a.m.

  APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

  Convened: January 30, 1997, 9:50 a.m.

  Members Present: Borlaug, Chair; Schuerer, Vice Chair; Vilsack, Ranking
  Member
  and Zieman.

  Members Absent: Fink (excused).

  Committee Business: Presentations by the workforce development division,
  labor
  division and industrial division.

  Adjourned: 11:00 a.m.

  APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

  Convened: January 30, 1997, 10:00 a.m.

  Members Present: Lind, Chair; Kibbie and Rehberg.
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  Members Absent: McKibben, Vice Chair (excused) and Horn, Ranking Member.

  Committee Business: Presentation by the director of the department of
  cultural
  affairs and a tour of the state historical building.

  Adjourned: 11:15 a.m.

  APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  Convened: January 30, 1997, 9:50 a.m.

  Members Present: Rittmer, Chair; Redfern, Vice Chair and Flynn, Ranking
  Member.

  Members Absent: Jensen and Palmer (both excused).

  Committee Business: Budget presentation by the department of human rights.

  Adjourned: 11:45 a.m.

  APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES

  Convened: January 30, 1997, 9:51 a.m.

  Members Present: Tinsman, Chair; Boettger, Vice Chair; Hammond, Ranking
  Member; Redwine and Szymoniak.

  Members Absent: none.

  Committee Business: Presentations by adult, child, and family services,
  Eldora state
  training school and Toledo juvenile home.

  Adjourned: 11:37 a.m.

  APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON JUSTICE SYSTEM

  Convened: January 30, 1997, 9:50 a.m.

  Members Present: Maddox, Chair; Angelo, Vice Chair; Dvorsky, Ranking Member;
  Fraise and McKean.

  Members Absent: none.

  Committee Business: Budget presentations by the attorney general, Iowa law
  enforcement academy and department of corrections.

  Adjourned: 11:45 a.m.

  APPROP. SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND COMMUNICATIONS

  Convened: January 30, 1997, 9:53 a.m.
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  Members Present: Rife, Chair; Neuhauser, Ranking Member; Deluhery and
  McLaren.

  Members Absent: Kramer, Vice Chair.

  Committee Business: Budget request by the legislative fiscal bureau.

  Adjourned: 11:15 a.m.

  HUMAN RESOURCES

  Convened: January 30, 1997, 2:52 p.m.

  Members Present: Boettger, Chair; Redwine, Vice Chair; Szymoniak, Ranking
  Member; Bartz, Behn, J. Black, Dvorsky, Hammond, Rensink, Schuerer, Tinsman
  and
  Vilsack.

  Members Absent: Dearden (excused).

  Committee Business: Presentation by the policy specialist for the department
  of
  human services.

  Adjourned: 3:54 p.m.

  WAYS AND MEANS

  Convened: January 30, 1997, 11:30 a.m.

  Members Present: Douglas, Chair; McKibben, Vice Chair; Palmer, Ranking
  Member;
  Borlaug, Connolly, Deluhery, Freeman, Judge and Vilsack.

  Members Absent: Drake, Hedge, Maddox, McLaren, Redfern and Szymoniak (all
  excused).

  Committee Business: Assigned bills to subcommittees.

  Adjourned: 11:35 a.m.

  CERTIFICATES OF RECOGNITION

  The secretary of the senate issued the following certificates of
  recognition:

  Trelley A. Crosman, Ogden ( For celebrating her 100th birthday. Senator Behn
  (12-
  5-96).

  Anthony J. Fesler, Danville ( For achieving the rank of Eagle Scout.
  Senators
  Douglas and Rife (1-29-97).

  Iowa City West High Varsity Singers ( For outstanding performance at the
  State
  Capitol of Iowa on 1-13-97. Senator Dvorsky (1-23-97).
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  Paul and Alice Fuhrmeister, Iowa City ( For celebrating their 50th wedding
  anniversary (Senator Dvorsky (1-22-97).

  Versal Vanordstrand, Indianola ( For serving as a presidential elector to
  the 1996
  electoral college. Senator Fink (1-20-97).

  Audrey Mann, Cedar Rapids ( For achieving the Girl Scout Gold Award, S.V. #7
  Troop #5045. Senator Horn (1-29-97).

  John P. Cadogan, Clinton ( For achieving the rank of Eagle Scout. Senators
  Rife
  and Rittmer (1-29-97).

  STUDY BILLS RECEIVED

  SSB  68 Human Resources

  Relating to the local regulation of cigarettes and tobacco products
  including a provision for the establishment of a local fee.

  SSB 69 Human Resources

  Relating to child sexual abuse reporting.

  SSB 70 Human Resources

  Prohibiting the restriction of medical communications by health
  care providers and providing effective and applicability dates.

  SSB 71 Human Resources

  Relating to medical malpractice actions by limiting noneconomic
  damages and modifying the statute of limitations for minors.

  SSB 72 Small Business, Economic Development & Tourism

  Relating to the department of workforce development and the
  enforcement of employment laws concerning emergency and
  hazardous materials inventories, occupational safety and health,
  construction contractors, amusement rides, asbestos and employment
  agency licenses, wage assignments, and boxing and wrestling.
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  SSB 73 Small Business, Economic Development & Tourism

  Relating to continued eligibility under the new jobs and income
  program concerning the ownership of land by nonresident aliens and
  certain capital investment and job creation provisions

  SSB 74 Small Business, Economic Development & Tourism

  Relating to the transfer of job training withholding payments to the
  workforce development fund account and providing effective and
  retroactive applicability date provisions.

  SSB 75 Small Business, Economic Development. & Tourism

  Relating to the implementation of certain assistance programs of
  the department of economic development.

  SSB 76 Small Business, Economic Development & Tourism

  Relating to an insurance premium tax credit for eligible businesses
  under the new jobs and income program.

  SSB 77 Judiciary

  Relating to the establishment of an automatic temporary
  restraining order against the parties to a dissolution of marriage,
  separate maintenance, or annulment action limiting certain actions
  by the parties.

  SSB 78 Judiciary

  Relating to civil actions and statutes of limitations in civil actions,
  the rate of interest on judgements and decrees, testimony by expert
  witnesses, procedures for furnishing patient records of plaintiffs,
  comparative fault in consortium claims, damages in civil actions, joint
  and several liability, and disclosure of psychological test material.


  SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

  Senate File 46

  HUMAN RESOURCES: Boettger, Chair; J. Black and Dearden.
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  Senate File 59

  HUMAN RESOURCES: Redwine, Chair; Bartz and Dearden

  Senate File 63

  HUMAN RESOURCES: Boettger, Chair; Dvorsky and Schuerer

  Senate File 65

  HUMAN RESOURCES: Boettger, Chair; Dvorsky and Schuerer

  Senate File 67

  HUMAN RESOURCES: Boettger, Chair; Dvorsky and Schuerer

  Senate File 68

  HUMAN RESOURCES: Boettger, Chair; Dvorsky and Schuerer

  Senate File 84

  STATE GOVERNMENT: McKibben, Chair; Drake and Szymoniak

  Senate File 85

  STATE GOVERNMENT: Lundby, Chair; Kibbie and King

  Senate File 86

  STATE GOVERNMENT: Rittmer, Chair; Gronstal and Lundby

  Senate File 87

  STATE GOVERNMENT: Tinsman, Chair; Gronstal and McLaren

  SSB 68

  HUMAN RESOURCES: Schuerer, Chair; Dearden and Tinsman

  SSB 69

  HUMAN RESOURCES: Tinsman, Chair; J. Black and Dearden

  SSB 70

  HUMAN RESOURCES: Redwine, Chair; Dvorsky and Schuerer

  SSB 71

  HUMAN RESOURCES: Behn, Chair; Hammond and Redwine
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  SSB 72

  SMALL BUSINESS AND ECON. DEVELP.: Lundby, Chair; Hansen and King

  SSB 73

  SMALL BUSINESS AND ECON. DEVELP: Schuerer, Chair; Boettger and Flynn

  SSB 74

  SMALL BUSINESS AND ECON. DEVELP: King, Chair; Boettger and Hammond

  SSB 75

  SMALL BUSINESS AND ECON. DEVELP.: Douglas, Chair; Boettger and McCoy

  SSB 76

  SMALL BUSINESS AND ECON. DEVELP.: Redwine, Chair; Lind and Palmer

  AMENDMENTS FILED

  S(3028 H. C. R. 5 Rod Halvorson
  S(3029 H. C. R. 5 Rod Halvorson
  S(3030 S. F.  5 Larry McKibben

  COMMUNICATION FROM THE MAJORITY LEADER

  February 3, 1996

  Mary Pat Gunderson
  Secretary of the Senate
  State Capitol
  Des Moines, IA 50319

  Dear Secretary Gunderson:

  This is to notify you of the illness of Senator Kay Hedge. This illness
  prevents
  Senator Hedge from performing his duties as Chairman of the Senate Ethics
  Committee.

  As there is business before the Ethics Committee which must be disposed of,
  I am
  making a temporary appointment of Vice-chairman Dick Drake to acting
  chairman of
  the Ethics Committee pursuant to Senate rule 34. In addition, I am making a
  temporary appointment of myself to the committee. These appointments will
  expire
  upon Senator Hedge's return to the Senate.

  Sincerely,
  STEWART IVERSON, JR.
  Majority Leader
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  AFTERNOON SESSION

  The Senate reconvened at 5:01 p.m., President Kramer presiding.

  INTRODUCTION OF BILLS

  Senate Joint Resolution 5, by Halvorson, a joint resolution
  proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa
  eliminating the office of Secretary of State.

  Read first time and passed on file.

  Senate File 100, by Hammond, Flynn, Neuhauser, Fink, Dvorsky,
  Vilsack, Dearden, and Halvorson, a bill for an act prohibiting
  discrimination against a person by an insurer on the basis of genetic
  information or testing.

  Read first time and passed on file.

  Senate File 101, by Maddox, a bill for an act relating to the
  practice of hypnotherapy and providing penalties.

  Read first time and passed on file.

  Senate File 102, by Lundby, Szymoniak, Borlaug, Neuhauser,
  Gronstal, Connolly, Dvorsky, Horn, Freeman, Hammond, and Bartz,
  a bill for an act creating a board of dental hygiene examiners.

  Read first time and passed on file.

  BILLS ASSIGNED TO COMMITTEE

  President Kramer announced the assignment of the following bills
  to committee:

  S. F.  96 Natural Resources
  S. F.  97 Human Resources
  S. F.  98 Commerce
  S. F.  99 State Government
  S. F.  100 Human Resources
  S. F.  101 State Government
  S. F.  102 State Government
  S. J. R. 5 State Government
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  ADJOURNMENT

  On motion of Senator Iverson, the Senate adjourned at 5:04 p.m.,
  until 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, February 4, 1997.

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