Text: H08297 Text: H08299 Text: H08200 - H08299 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 2366 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 1, by inserting after line 19 the 1 3 following: 1 4 "Sec. . Section 229.7, Code 1999, is amended to 1 5 read as follows: 1 6 229.7 SERVICE OF NOTICE UPON RESPONDENT. 1 7 Upon the filing of an application for involuntary 1 8 hospitalization, the clerk shall docket the case and 1 9 immediately notify a district court judge, district 1 10 associate judge, or magistrate who is admitted to the 1 11 practice of law in this state, who shall review the 1 12 application and accompanying documentation. If the 1 13 application is adequate as to form, the court may set 1 14 a time and place for a hearing on the application, if 1 15 feasible, but the hearing shall not be held less than 1 16 forty-eight hours after notice to the respondent 1 17 unless the respondent waives such minimum prior notice 1 18 requirement. The court shall direct the clerk to send 1 19 copies of the application and supporting 1 20 documentation, together with a notice informing the 1 21 respondent of the procedures required by this chapter, 1 22 to the sheriff or the sheriff's deputy for immediate 1 23 service upon the respondent. If the respondent is 1 24 taken into custody under section 229.11, service of 1 25 the application, documentation and notice upon the 1 26 respondent shall be made at the time the respondent is 1 27 taken into custody. The process server shall serve 1 28 the respondent in plain clothes via an unmarked 1 29 vehicle, if the judge, magistrate, or referee so 1 30 requires, unless the sheriff's department does not 1 31 have access to an unmarked vehicle." 1 32 #2. Page 5, line 3, by inserting after the word 1 33 "requires" the following: ", unless the process 1 34 server does not have an unmarked vehicle". 1 35 #3. Title page, line 2, by inserting after the 1 36 word "treatment" the following: ", and making certain 1 37 related changes to inpatient commitment procedures". 1 38 #4. By renumbering as necessary. 1 39 1 40 1 41 1 42 KREIMAN of Davis 1 43 1 44 1 45 1 46 GRUNDBERG of Polk 1 47 1 48 1 49 1 50 RAECKER of Polk 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 KETTERING of Sac 2 5 HF 2366.202 78 2 6 jj/gg
Text: H08297 Text: H08299 Text: H08200 - H08299 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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