House Journal: Page 1084: Tuesday, April 6, 1999

Weidman	Weigel	Whitead	Wise

Witt	
	Absent or not voting, 2:
Chapman	Connors
The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to 
have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
IMMEDIATE MESSAGE
Siegrist of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent 
that House File 746 be immediately messaged to the Senate.
Regular Calendar
Senate File 115, a bill for an act relating to alcohol testing of 
private sector employees and prospective employees and providing an 
effective date, with report of committee recommending passage, was 
taken up for consideration.
Taylor of Linn offered the following amendment H?1258 filed by 
him and moved its adoption:
H-1258
 1     Amend Senate File 115, as passed by the Senate, as
 2   follows:
 3     1.  By striking page 2, line 18, through page 3,
 4   line 5, and inserting the following:
 5     " (2)  Notwithstanding any provision of this section
 6   to the contrary, alcohol testing, including initial
 7   and confirmatory testing, may be conducted pursuant to
 8   rules adopted by the Iowa department of public health.
 9   The rules shall be consistent with regulations adopted
10   by the United States department of transportation
11   governing alcohol testing as contained in 49 C.F.R.,
12   pt. 40.
13     Sec.     .  Section 730.5, subsection 7, paragraph
14   g, Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
15     g.  A medical review officer shall, prior to the
16   results being reported to an employer, review and
17   interpret any confirmed positive test results,
18   including both quantitative and qualitative test
19   results, to ensure that the chain of custody is
20   complete and sufficient on its face and that any

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