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House Journal: Page 709: Monday, March 16, 1998

Mundie 	Murphy 	Myers 	Nelson 
O'Brien 	Osterhaus 	Rants 	Rayhons 
Richardson 	Scherrman 	Schrader 	Shoultz 
Siegrist 	Sukup 	Taylor	Teig 
Thomas 	Thomson 	Tyrrell 	Van Fossen 
Van Maanen 	Vande Hoef 	Veenstra 	Warnstadt 
Weidman 	Weigel	Welter 	Whitead 
Wise 	Mr. Speaker
	  Corbett

The nays were, 3:

Fallon 	Reynolds-Knight 	Witt 

Absent or not voting, 3:

Brand 	Chiodo 	Eddie

The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared
to have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
House File 677, a bill for an act relating to an exception from
mandatory participation in a course by parties to an action
involving child custody or visitation, with report of committee
recommending passage, was taken up for consideration.
Murphy of Dubuque offered the following amendment H-8379 filed
by Murphy, et al., and moved its adoption:

H-8379

 1     Amend House File 677 as follows:
 2     1.  Page 1, by inserting after line 18 the
 3   following:
 4     "Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  598.41A  VISITATION _
 5   HISTORY OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES AGAINST A MINOR.
 6     Notwithstanding section 598.41, the court shall
 7   consider in the award of visitation rights to a parent
 8   of a child, the criminal history of the parent if the
 9   parent has been convicted of a criminal offense
10   against a minor, a sexually violent offense against a
11   minor, or sexual exploitation of a minor.  As used in
12   this section, "criminal offense against a minor",
13   "sexually violent offense", and "sexual exploitation"
14   mean as defined in section 692A.1."
15     2.  Title page, line 1, by inserting after the
16   word "to" the following:  "child custody and
17   visitation including the consideration of a parent's
18   criminal history in the awarding of visitation rights
19   and including".
Amendment H-8379 was adopted.

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