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House File 182

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  1  1                                    HOUSE FILE 182     
  1  2  
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 EXPANDING THE CRIMINAL CODE DEFINITION OF SERIOUS INJURY TO
  1  5    INCLUDE CERTAIN INJURIES TO CHILDREN.  
  1  6 
  1  7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1  8 
  1  9    Section 1.  Section 702.18, Code 1999, is amended to read
  1 10 as follows:
  1 11    702.18  SERIOUS INJURY.
  1 12    1.  "Serious injury" means disabling any of the following:
  1 13    a.  Disabling mental illness, or bodily.
  1 14    b.  Bodily injury which creates does any of the following:
  1 15    (1)  Creates a substantial risk of death or which causes.
  1 16    (2)  Causes serious permanent disfigurement, or.
  1 17    (3)  Causes protracted loss or impairment of the function of
  1 18 any bodily member or organ, and.
  1 19    c.  Any injury to a child that requires surgical repair and
  1 20 necessitates the administration of general anesthesia.
  1 21    2.  "Serious injury" includes but is not limited to skull
  1 22 fractures, rib fractures, and metaphyseal fractures of the
  1 23 long bones of children under the age of four years.  
  1 24 
  1 25 
  1 26                                                             
  1 27                               RON J. CORBETT
  1 28                               Speaker of the House
  1 29 
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  1 31                                                             
  1 32                               MARY E. KRAMER
  1 33                               President of the Senate
  1 34 
  1 35    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  2  1 is known as House File 182, Seventy-eighth General Assembly.
  2  2 
  2  3 
  2  4                                                             
  2  5                               ELIZABETH ISAACSON
  2  6                               Chief Clerk of the House
  2  7 Approved                , 1999
  2  8 
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  2 10                               
  2 11 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  2 12 Governor
     

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