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House Amendment 1200

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  1  1    Amend House File 427 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
  1  3 clause and inserting the following:
  1  4    "Section 1.  Section 622.10, subsections 1 and 5,
  1  5 Code 1999, are amended to read as follows:
  1  6    1.  A practicing attorney, counselor, physician,
  1  7 surgeon, physician assistant, advanced registered
  1  8 nurse practitioner, mental health professional, or the
  1  9 stenographer or confidential clerk of any such person,
  1 10 who obtains information by reason of the person's
  1 11 employment, or a member of the clergy or a person
  1 12 providing critical incident stress management shall
  1 13 not be allowed, in giving testimony, to disclose any
  1 14 confidential communication properly entrusted to the
  1 15 person in the person's professional capacity, and
  1 16 necessary and proper to enable the person to discharge
  1 17 the functions of the person's office according to the
  1 18 usual course of practice or discipline.
  1 19    5.  For the purposes of this section, "mental:
  1 20    a.  "Critical incident" means an extraordinary
  1 21 event that results in acute or cumulative
  1 22 psychological stress or trauma.
  1 23    b.  "Critical incident stress management" means a
  1 24 process of crisis intervention designed to assist
  1 25 emergency services personnel and victims of disasters
  1 26 and other extraordinary events in coping with the
  1 27 psychological trauma resulting from the emergency
  1 28 personnel's response to a critical incident.
  1 29    c.  "Critical incident stress management team"
  1 30 means the group of one or more volunteers who provides
  1 31 critical incident stress management services in
  1 32 response to a particular critical incident.
  1 33    d.  "Mental health professional" means a
  1 34 psychologist licensed under chapter 154B, a registered
  1 35 nurse licensed under chapter 152, a social worker
  1 36 licensed under chapter 154C, a marital and family
  1 37 therapist licensed under chapter 154D, a mental health
  1 38 counselor licensed under chapter 154D, or an
  1 39 individual holding at least a master's degree in a
  1 40 related field as deemed appropriate by the board of
  1 41 behavioral science examiners.
  1 42    Sec. 2.  Section 622.10, Code 1999, is amended by
  1 43 adding the following new subsection:
  1 44    NEW SUBSECTION.  7.  The fact that a member of a
  1 45 critical incident stress management team may receive
  1 46 nominal compensation not based upon the value of the
  1 47 services provided shall not negate the privilege in
  1 48 subsection 1."
  1 49    #2.  Title page, line 1, by striking the words
  1 50 "relating to limitation of liability" and inserting
  2  1 the following:  "to provide an evidentiary privilege".  
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  2  3 
  2  4                               
  2  5 DAVIS of Wapello 
  2  6 HF 427.501 78
  2  7 jj/jw
     

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