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17     Sec. 3.  Section 513C.7, subsection 4, paragraph a,

18   Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
19     a.  The individual basic or standard health benefit
20   plan shall not deny, exclude, or limit benefits for a
21   covered individual for losses incurred more than
22   twelve six months following the effective date of the
23   individual's coverage due to a preexisting condition.
24   A preexisting condition shall not be defined more
25   restrictively than any of the following:
26     (1)  A condition that would cause an ordinarily
27   prudent person to seek medical advice, diagnosis,
28   care, or treatment during the twelve six months
29   immediately preceding the effective date of coverage.
30     (2)  A condition for which medical advice,
31   diagnosis, care, or treatment was recommended or
32   received during the twelve six months immediately
33   preceding the effective date of coverage.
34     (3)  A pregnancy existing on the effective date of
35   coverage."
36     2.  Title page, line 3, by inserting after the
37   word "services," the following:  "preexisting
38   condition provisions,".
39     3.  By renumbering as necessary.
Roll call was requested by Schrader of Marion and Siegrist of 
Pottawattamie.
On the question "Shall amendment H-1170 be adopted?" (S.F. 276)
	The ayes were, 43:
Bell	Bukta	Burnett	Cataldo
Chapman	Chiodo	Cohoon	Connors
Doderer	Dotzler	Drees	Falck
Fallon	Foege	Ford	Frevert
Holveck	Huser	Jochum	Kreiman
Kuhn	Larkin	May	Mertz
Mundie	Murphy	Myers	O'Brien
Osterhaus	Parmenter	Rants	Reynolds
Richardson	Scherrman	Schrader	Shoultz
Stevens	Taylor	Thomas	Warnstadt
Weigel	Whitead	Witt
	The nays were, 50:
Alons	Arnold	Barry	Baudler
Blodgett	Boal	Boddicker	Bradley
Brauns	Carroll	Cormack	Davis
Dix	Dolecheck	Drake	Garman
Gipp	Greiner	Hahn	Hansen
Heaton	Hoffman	Holmes	Horbach^
Houser	Huseman	Jacobs	Jager
Jenkins	Johnson	Kettering	Klemme
Larson	Lord	Martin	Metcalf
Millage	Nelson	Raecker	Rayhons
Siegrist	Sukup	Sunderbruch	Teig
Thomson	Tyrrell	Van Engelenhoven	Weidman
Welter	Mr. Speaker
		  Corbett
	Absent or not voting, 7:
Boggess	Brunkhorst	Eddie	Grundberg
Mascher	Van Fossen	Wise
Amendment H-1170 lost.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Leave of absence was granted as follows:
Mascher of Johnson and Wise of Lee, until their return, on request of Cohoon of Des 
Moines. 
Jochum of Dubuque offered amendment H?1182 filed by her as 
follows:
H-1182
 1     Amend Senate File 276, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
 4   following:
 5     "Section 1. NEW SECTION.  135.26  HEALTH CARE
 6   PROVIDER RECORDS - DUPLICATION FOR PROVISION TO
 7   PATIENT.
 8     1.  For the purposes of this section:
 9     a.  "Health care provider" means a person licensed
10   to practice medicine and surgery pursuant to chapter
11   148, physical therapy pursuant to chapter 148A,
12   occupational therapy pursuant to chapter 148B,
13   acupuncture pursuant to chapter 148E, podiatry
14   pursuant to chapter 149, osteopathy pursuant to
15   chapter 150, osteopathic medicine and surgery pursuant
16   to chapter 150A, chiropractic pursuant to chapter 151,
17   nursing pursuant to chapter 152, dietetics pursuant to
18   chapter 152A, respiratory care pursuant to chapter
19   152B, massage therapy pursuant to chapter 152C,
20   dentistry pursuant to chapter 153, optometry pursuant
21   to chapter 154, psychology pursuant to chapter 154B,

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