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House Journal: Thursday, January 28, 1999

Eighteenth Calendar Day - Twelfth Session Day

Hall of the House of Representatives
Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, January 28, 1999
The House met pursuant to adjournment at 9:02 a.m., Speaker 
Corbett in the chair.
Prayer was offered by Reverend Paul Akin, pastor of the First 
United Methodist Church, Indianola. 
The Journal of Wednesday, January 27, 1999 was approved.
PETITION FILED
The following petition was received and placed on file:
By Dolecheck of Ringgold, from one hundred twenty-two 
constituents of District 88 favoring creating a dove hunting season in 
the State of Iowa.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
House File 161, by Ford, a bill for an act to extend the 
jurisdiction of the juvenile court to include adoption and termination 
of parental rights proceedings.
Read first time and referred to committee on human resources.
House File 162, by Dotzler, a bill for an act relating to the time of 
possession of deer venison and subjecting violators to an existing 
penalty.
Read first time and referred to committee on natural resources.
House File 163, by Wise, Heaton, Reynolds, Larkin, Greiner, and 
Cohoon, a bill for an act relating to counties included in the mid-
America port commission.
Read first time and referred to committee on local government.
House File 164, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act 

concerning the open meetings statute by permitting the awarding of 
appellate attorney fees for a successful action involving the statute.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 165, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act 
including the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance 
for one's own use within the definition of manufacturing a controlled 
substance, and providing an effective date.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
MESSAGES FROM THE SENATE
The following messages were received from the Senate:
Mr. Speaker: I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Senate has on 
January 27, 1999, passed the following resolution in which the concurrence of the 
Senate was asked:
House Concurrent Resolution 5, a concurrent resolution relating to joint rules of the 
Senate and House of Representatives for the Seventy-eighth General Assembly.
Also: That the Senate has on January 27, 1999, passed the following bill in which 
the concurrence of the Senate was asked:
House File 146, a bill for an act relating to the establishment of the state percent of 
growth for purposes of the state school foundation program, and providing an 
applicability date.                                
Also: That the Senate has on January 27, 1999, passed the following bill in which 
the concurrence of the Senate was asked:
House File 147, a bill for an act providing additional funding for certain school 
districts that have either decreasing or increasing enrollments by extending the 
regular program district cost guarantee and by providing on-time funding, making an 
appropriation, and providing effective and applicability dates.                        
Also: That the Senate has on January 27, 1999, passed the following bill in which 
the concurrence of the House is asked:
Senate File 10, a bill for an act relating to the issuance of nonresident hunting 
licenses, to the maximum number of deer and wild turkey hunting licenses issued to 
nonresidents, and to certain allocations of nonresident licenses, and providing an 
effective date.    
Also: That the Senate has on January 27, 1999, passed the following bill in which 

the concurrence of the House is asked:
Senate File 37, a bill for an act relating to the hunting of mourning doves and 
subjecting violators to a penalty.
Also: That the Senate has on January 27, 1999, passed the following bill in which 
the concurrence of the House is asked:
Senate File 47, a bill for an act relating to the classification of funding agreements 
issued by a life insurance company for purposes of the prioritization of claims against 
the assets of an insurer subject to supervision, rehabilitation, and liquidation, and 
including an effective date and a retroactive applicability provision.
Also: That the Senate has on January 27, 1999, passed the following bill in which 
the concurrence of the House is asked:
Senate File 51, a bill for an act authorizing a county conservation board to 
cooperate with private, not-for-profit organizations to carry out conservation and 
recreation programs.
Also: That the Senate has on January 27, 1999, passed the following resolution in 
which the concurrence of the House is asked:
Senate Concurrent Resolution 2, a concurrent resolution relating to the 
compensation of chaplains, officers and employees of the seventy-eighth general 
assembly.
MICHAEL E. MARSHALL, Secretary
The House stood at ease at 9:10 a.m., until the fall of the gavel.
The House resumed session at 9:35 a.m., Speaker Corbett in the 
chair.
COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY THE SENATE
Greiner of Washington moved that a committee of three be 
appointed to notify the Senate that the House was ready to receive it 
in joint convention.
The motion prevailed and the Speaker appointed as such 
committee: Greiner of Washington, Klemme of Plymouth and Taylor 
of Linn.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY THE SENATE

Greiner of Washington, chair of the committee appointed to notify 
the  Senate that the House was ready to receive it in joint convention, 
reported that it had performed its duty. The report was accepted and 
the committee discharged.
The Sergeant-at-Arms announced the arrival of the President of 
the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate and the honorable body of the 
Senate.
The President was escorted to the Speaker's station, the Secretary 
of the Senate to the Chief Clerk's desk and the members of the Senate 
were seated in the House chamber.
In accordance with law and House Concurrent Resolution 6, duly 
adopted, the joint convention was called to order, President Kramer 
presiding.
Senator Iverson of Wright moved that the roll call be dispensed 
with and that the President of the joint convention be authorized to 
declare a quorum present.
The motion prevailed.
President Kramer announced a quorum present and the joint 
convention duly organized.
The Legislative Inaugural Committee, consisting of Senators 
Hedge of Mahaska, Boettger of Shelby, Rife of Cedar, Dearden of 
Polk, Dvorsky of Johnson and Fraise of Lee, on the part of the Senate 
and Representatives Lord of Dallas, Larson of Linn, Heaton of Henry, 
Foege of Linn, Ford of Polk and Mascher of Johnson, on the part of 
the House were appointed to notify Governor Thomas J. Vilsack that 
the joint convention was ready to receive him.
Secretary of State, Chester J. Culver; Treasurer of State, Michael 
Fitzgerald; Secretary of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Patty 
Judge; State Auditor Dick Johnson and Attorney General Tom Miller 
were escorted into the House chamber.
	The Supreme Court Justice, the Justices of the Supreme Court,   

the Chief Judge and Judges of the Appellate court were escorted into 
the House chamber.
Lieutenant Governor Sally Pederson was escorted into the House 
chamber.
The inaugural committee waited upon Governor Thomas J. Vilsack 
and escorted him to the Speaker's station.
President Kramer then presented Governor Thomas J. Vilsack who 
delivered the following address:
Madam President, Mr. Speaker, Honorable Members of the General Assembly, 
Chief Justice McGiverin and Distinguished Members of the Judiciary, Lieutenant 
Governor Pederson, Esteemed Statewide Elected Officials, Special Guests, My Fellow 
Citizens of Iowa.
Let me begin by reading a letter from a very important person in Iowa. She wrote to 
me:
"Dear Governor Vilsack,
 What are you going to do about pollution?  I would tell the people 
not to!  I don't like pollution.  Do you?  So what are you going to do 
about schools?  I really like my school.  Can we have more time to 
read?  So what are you going to do?"
No-one is more important to me than Iowa's children.  So when Alexandra 
Swanson, a third-grader from Beaver Creek Elementary School in Johnston wrote to 
me I paid attention, and so should we all.
Let me rephrase her question for the benefit of the assembled body, "What are we 
going to do?"
I come here to the General Assembly for the first time.  It is a time filled with 
excitement and a little concern. Concern that I do the right thing.  I've never done this 
before. When you do something for the first time, you prepare as best you can to get the 
best information and advice that you can, you make our best judgments, then the 
moment comes.  You do something for the first time.
I can't help but reflect today on the significance and importance of "firsts" in our 
lives.  First steps.  Our first day of school.  Our first experience with faith.  That first 
job.  Our first love.  The first time that we look into the eyes of a newborn child.  They 
are memorable experiences.  They open doorways to new worlds that we have never 
even dreamed of.  And they all mark new beginnings.
Here in America and here in Iowa, first has another meaning to us as well.  We 
have an innate drive to be the best we can be - to finish first in everything we attempt.  
We see it as a duty; as a responsibility.  Finishing first marks the culmination of our 
best efforts and of our dreams.  In a sense it marks both an ending and at the same 

time a new beginning.
As I present my budget to you for the first time, I urge you to join me in a pursuit of 
a prairie full of firsts.  What must we do together to ensure that Iowa will be first in 
education for our children; first in environmental quality; first in health care for our 
citizens; first in the fight against methamphetamine; first in workforce development 
and economic development, and first in the future?
The answer, it seems to me, is to begin by taking bold first steps into the future.  
We have a strong and proud educational heritage in Iowa, and we have identified 
ourselves, rightfully so,  as the Education State.  So I ask you, members of the General 
Assembly, isn't it time that we again assume our rightful position in this nation as first 
in education?
We are blessed with a core of committed educators, some of who are with us today.  
Let me introduce you to four of them. On sabbatical from her position as a teacher of 
Theatre at East High School, currently performing in the Des Moines Playhouse 
production of Having Our Say, we welcome and salute the 1998 Iowa Teacher of the 
Year, Ruth Ann Gaines. We are also proud to have the dedicated Moulton School 
mentor of inner city students who was chosen to represent our state at the 1997 
President's Summit for America's Future, Aaron Smith. We welcome today to the 
Capitol the southern Iowa native who refused to allow his cerebral palsy to prevent 
him from doing hundreds of classroom presentations as the Energy Wizard, winning 
the Governor's Very Special Arts Service Award and the Iowa Energy Educator of the 
Year Award, Erik Anderson.  And finally, we introduce the classroom teacher of 
Alexandra Swanson and her classmates from the Beaver Creek Elementary School, Ms. 
Shannon Smith.  Join me in greeting these four uniquely excellent Iowa educators and 
in welcoming Alexandra and her classmates.
In the first years of life the responsibility for teaching properly belongs to the 
parents of each child.  All parents must be their child's first and best teacher.  But few 
of us know where to begin or how to start.  We can help.  By doubling our investment in 
newly-created empowerment communities, we can give these parents looking for help 
the information, the tools, and the assistance they need to prepare their children for 
school. By taking this first step today we will make sure that when our children take 
their first steps to school, they will be ready to learn. 
When they start their first years in school, they must learn the basics well. That's 
why, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly...  That's why teachers must be 
better prepared.  Schools must monitor student achievement and be held accountable 
for results.  So let us begin today by committing 10 million dollars in the first year and 
increasing that amount by 10 million dollars for each year in the next four years, so we 
can provide our schools with the resources necessary to reduce class sizes, to improve 
teacher skills, and to hold schools accountable. Our goal is simply stated - we must 
guarantee that every child in this state is reading well by the time he or she enters 
fourth grade.
But if we are to do our first job well... more is needed.  For the first time, we should 
commit state aid to make sure our schools are safe and free from fire and safety 
hazards and to provide more classroom space. Over the next five years we propose 
building a fund of 50 million dollars to help local school districts meet their building 
needs, while at the same time providing relief for property taxpayers.  Our goal, again 
simply stated... is adequate class space for each child and each educator in this state.
As we attempt to make our students first in the nation in education, we must 

continue our commitment to technology by making permanent our current investment 
of 30 million dollars per year, and enable its use not only for hardware and software 
purchases, but also staff development.  Our goal is to keep Iowa students on the cutting 
edge of technology.
I applaud the members of the General Assembly in addressing the critical issue of 
school funding early in the session. Together we will improve our commitment to local 
schools by increasing allowable growth, by providing state-funded budget guarantees 
for those schools struggling with declining enrollments and by providing accelerated 
funding for schools that have to cope with rapidly rising student numbers.  Our goal 
should always be to adequately fund schools with each student being treated fairly and 
equitably.
At the same time, we must support our educators in their fight to make Iowa 
schools drug and violence free.  We will take the first steps of intervention at the first 
signs of trouble in junior high and middle schools.  So we need to expand the successful 
program of juvenile court liaisons by adding 76 new schools to the 107 schools that 
currently exist to aid our at-risk student population and to return discipline to the 
classroom and to the hallways of each and every school in this state.  Our goal is to 
provide a safer, better learning environment in which all of our students can learn well 
without fear or intimidation.
Lorenzo Luis Sandoval left college early in the 1970's. He served the Hispanic 
migrant workers of Iowa for over 20 years and earned the League of United Latin 
American Citizens Iowa Man of the Year award.  With the aid of an Iowa Tuition 
Grant, he fulfilled his lifetime dream of graduating from Grand View College in 1992. 
He later received his Master of Fine Arts from the prestigious University of Iowa 
Playwrights Workshop last year.  Dramatic Publishing calls Lorenzo "the exciting new 
Latino voice in America today."  Ladies and gentlemen of the assembly, please say 
hello to another Iowan - Lorenzo Luis Sandoval.
I understand what it means to be close to your dream but to have concerns about 
whether there will be finances to make it become a reality. Twenty-five years ago this 
year, I spoke with my father for the last time on the phone. I called him to tell him that 
I had been admitted to law school. In a tired and weary voice he said to me, "That's 
great. I don't know where the money will come from but we'll find it some place." 
Several days after that call he passed away. The money came from a variety of 
government loans, programs, and my own work. I understand the struggle of many in 
this state today are going through to try to realize their educational dreams.
 We need to make higher education more affordable and accessible. To do so, we 
need to look at a package of increased funding measures. We need to increase funding 
for the State of Iowa Scholarship program; we need to continue to increase funding for 
the Iowa Tuition Grant program; we need to support vocational and technical tuition 
grants; we need to send a message to those who serve in the National Guard that we 
care about them by extending educational opportunities to them as well. For those 
community college students who are here today, we need to keep the faith with their 
dream by fully funding the community college formula and continue our strong and 
traditional support for the Regents Universities.  Our collective goal should be that no 
one wishing a higher education will ever be denied that opportunity in our state simply 
for lack of money.
	Finally, as we approach a comprehensive look at education we should not and must 

not neglect the important role of libraries.  Iowa is one of the few states that provides 
no direct assistance to libraries.  Let us join the rest of the nation in improving the 
communication centers of many of our communities.  Let us enrich ourselves by 
enriching Iowa.  We should begin funding the Enrich Iowa initiative now.  
Our goal is to be first in the nation in education.  Let it be said that here in Iowa we 
put our money where our children are.
We have in Iowa a truly amazing array of natural grace.  When Albert Lea first 
explored Iowa in 1835 he wrote:  "The general appearance of the country is one of great 
beauty. . . one grand rolling prairie, along one side of which flows the mightiest river in 
the world. . .  (For) water, fuel and timber; for richness of soil; for beauty of appearance 
. . . it surpasses any  portion of the United States."
Too often today, there is a difficult playing field for Iowa farmers who want to 
protect our land and water.  But it is our farmers who have the greatest immediate 
stake in the environment.  It is their families who are first to drink the water, breathe 
the air, and eat the food raised in the soil.  So David and Corrine Williams and their 
children Steve and Wendy operate a fifth-generation farm near the Montgomery and 
Page County line. They do so with respect and diligence.  By using minimum and no-
till technology, rotational grazing, alternative watering for their cattle, they were 
recently honored with the National Cattlemen's Association Environmental 
Stewardship Award for "protecting the environment while making their business more 
profitable."  Join me in congratulating the Williams family for showing us that we can 
make sound environmental decisions that are also sound economic decisions.
It is our natural resources that hold the key to a stronger, more prosperous Iowa.  
But to be first in the nation in Environmental Quality and especially to have the 
cleanest water in America, we must take difficult first steps. 
When a body of water with the name of Clear Lake had levels of E. coli which 
spiked over safe limits, when its beaches were closed, when its community lost 
thousands of dollars of much-needed tourist revenue, isn't it a signal that we need to be 
better stewards?
But it is not just our lakes that need care. Our Department of Natural Resources 
has not had the resources to conduct even baseline water quality analyses.  As Dave 
Moeller, the DNR's Fisheries Supervisor for the Northeast District, said, "...We can't do 
anything about it until we see dead fish."
Members of the General Assembly, we can and we must do something 
about it!  We must carefully assess the condition of our groundwater and surface water, 
and then we must create a comprehensive groundwater and surface water monitoring 
program. 
The budget I propose provides resources to do just that and more. It provides funds 
to establish an Iowa watershed protection program, attend to our wetlands and enforce 
the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act. 
Our environmental proposals, however, do not start or stop at the water's edge.  We 
are committed to enhancing our soil and to protecting our air.
	That's why we advocate a Fuel Quality Standard for Iowa supported by the Iowa 

Corn Growers Association which includes ethanol and which will provide both 
environmental and value-added economic benefits.
We propose more resources to better implement our current manure management 
program. And as we consider the interdependence of agriculture and the environment, 
we are asking the legislature to consider empowering the people of Iowa with some 
degree of local control operated within a statewide framework for livestock production.
We will protect our natural heritage for the present and future citizens of our state.  
We will be good stewards and rededicate ourselves to restoring and conserving the 
land, protecting our water and cleaning up the air. Let it be said that here in Iowa, we 
put our money where the environment is.
To be first in the nation in health care, we have specific goals. We propose to 
expand HAWK-I, Iowa's child health care initiative, to cover all children in families 
with incomes of up to 200% of the poverty level.  Imagine the frustration of parents 
working hard to support a family, struggling to lift themselves out of poverty, and 
beginning to succeed, only to discover that their efforts disqualify their children from 
access to basic health care. Is this a small problem?  Hardly.  Our initiative will offer 
basic health care for the first time to an additional 12,000 of Iowa's children!
Next, we cannot be first in health care and sit idly by and watch people hurt and 
neglected by the excesses of managed care.  We've all seen and read about those 
excesses in the news. But in Iowa we believe that people are more important than the 
process!  Let us working together ensure fairer access to medical services for all of 
Iowa's people. Let us guarantee that Iowans will receive coverage for pre-existing 
conditions by reducing the waiting period to six months.  Let us stop insurance 
companies from "gagging" doctors so that they are prevented from telling us the 
information we need to know.  Let us make sure that the information we receive about 
a health plan's record is accurate; that it promotes good medical practices and let us 
above all else require a fair and legitimate appeal process to resolve managed care 
disputes.  Children in this state specifically are at risk and for that reason we will 
propose a specific and targeted set of proposals and protections designed to provide 
these opportunities for Iowa's children as well.
But we acknowledge the best way to be first in health is through good preventive 
care.  We have therefore proposed initiatives for women over 50, addressing the 
increased risks of breast cancer, osteoporosis and heart disease; we will launch a public 
awareness campaign; strengthen local health systems and promote community health 
and public education.
Beyond that initiative it is our commitment to enhance child dental care and child 
nutrition programs and perhaps the boldest stroke of all - we are recommending over 
one million dollars of support to establish a new School of Public Health at the 
University of Iowa. We take these steps because we know prevention works.  We know 
prevention saves money.  And most important of all, we know prevention saves lives!
Finally, our health care program includes protection for Iowa's seniors. They are 
those who farmed our land, who taught our children, who worked in our factories and 
businesses - and as such they deserve to live their last years in quiet dignity.  If we 
restructure Medicaid funding, we can increase direct care staff salaries and improve 
the quality of care in nursing homes. If we establish an annual "Governor's Award for 
Quality Care" we can recognize outstanding nursing facilities. If we create additional 
long-term care ombudsman positions we can work together to correct nursing home 

deficiencies. And, if we stiffen fines for repeat violators and focus health facility 
inspections on those chronic violators we will enhance the good reputation of the vast 
majority of nursing homes and facilities in our state today.
Our goal is improved and fairer health care for all.  Let it be said that here in Iowa, 
we put our money where our most vulnerable populations are.
The safety, security and well-being of Iowans is the responsibility of each of us.  But 
nowhere, perhaps, is that responsibility accepted with more courage and more 
dedication than in the selfless service provided by our peace officers. Today, we, as a 
grateful people, salute and thank every peace officer who puts his or her life on the line 
every day for our families and ourselves.  With us this morning are two men who are 
living proof of that dedication and courage.
When the time finally came, after four intense days in the middle of a hostage crisis, 
a distraught and dangerous father, charged with numerous crimes including attempted 
murder and kidnapping brought his two sons out into the Indianola sunlight.  As he 
began to pull a loaded hand-gun from his pocket, Ken Haut rushed in and flung his body 
in harm's way, tackling and subduing the prisoner. Serving with him were his fellow 
troopers and other peace officers.
Without thinking of his personal safety, this humble Lamoni Chief of Police 
pursued two suspected murderers and bank robbers.  In an instant his life changed 
forever.  His sacrifice was great.  He lost an eye and might have lost his life.  But Dale 
Killpack acted without hesitation on our behalf, and today he and Ken are with us. 
These two gentlemen represent the daily Iowa heroes who are our peace officers.
There is a specific crossroads where public health, public education and public 
safety meet.  And it is at that crossroads that we stand today.  We will NOT, simply 
because we happen to be in a convenient location in the heartland of America, be first 
in the nation in the creation and delivery of methamphetamine.  We WILL, however, 
make it one of our first priorities to eradicate this deadly threat.
To protect our people we must strangle the meth lifeline by controlling both supply 
and demand. To protect our people we will seek life sentences for the manufacture or 
sale of meth to minors.  To protect our people we will hire more narcotics agents to 
increase interdiction efforts.  To protect our people we will hire additional lab 
technicians to help in the timely prosecution of cases, and to protect our people we will 
hire more state troopers, DCI agents and fire marshals to aid in safely closing down 
these meth labs.  At the same time, to help our people we will expand the number of 
drug courts.  To help our people we will provide additional resources for treatment to 
lengthen the time that Iowans addicted to this powerful drug can receive treatment 
and also expand treatment opportunities at Eldora.  And to educate our people we will 
support and create educational programs to prevent the use of meth before it starts.
Now I do not want to leave this subject without speaking directly to those who 
manufacture and sell this drug. Here is my message: Do not come here.  Do not hurt 
our children.  We will find you.  We will prosecute you.  We will imprison you.  Our goal 
is to win this war against meth.  Let it be said in Iowa, we put our money where the 
safety of each of our citizens is.
	Let us today also invite the whole world to help make our state the Food Capital of 

the World.  Not just first in the nation, but first in the world.  It is part of our larger 
commitment to workforce development and economic development.
This administration intends to make Iowa-grown, Iowa-raised and Iowa-made a 
brand name known throughout the world for quality. We need to promote high tech 
agricultural research which is why we support funding the Center of Excellence in 
Plant Science at Iowa State University.  We need to combine Iowa's strengths in 
agriculture and insurance and provide innovative products to protect Iowa's farmers 
that use advances in biotechnology.  We need to encourage the expansion of value-
added opportunities in every region of this state.
And at the same time, we will not abandon those Iowans whose economic fortunes 
have turned.  We have and will continue to strongly advocate at the federal level and 
state level to take immediate proactive steps to help livestock and grain producers in 
economic crisis.  We intend to stand together with those who farm the land, and 
together we will make Iowa the world's food capital.
Further, we will expand the skilled workforce to help us face the needs of a new and 
dawning technology and millenium. We need to make Iowa more attractive to business 
and industry.  We need to strengthen our commitment to vocational and technical 
programs and school-to-career opportunities.  That is why we are establishing the 
Governor's 21st Century Workforce Council which will be chaired by Lieutenant 
Governor, Sally Pederson.  We need to identify work skill shortage areas. To start the 
process of increasing the skill levels of our people and to reduce shortages, we will 
create forgivable loan programs; we will offer incentives to promote skills 
enhancement; we will coordinate governmental efforts for skills enhancement; and we 
intend to increase worker safety by providing more resources for workplace inspections.
We will actively and forcefully work to attract and retain the quality of workers 
necessary for our mutual future.  We must send a strong and unmistakable message to 
the children of this state, some of whom are here today - and let us start with those 
here today.  We need you!  We need your creativity, your energy and your intellect.  
But we must do our job if we are asking them to do their job. We must create and 
enhance the quality of life in this state so that it is second to none. That is why we are 
suggesting the creation of REACH initiative, which would provide additional resources 
for recreation, environment, culture and heritage - to send a strong and powerful 
message that something's going on in this state, and that we are responding to the 
needs and concerns of our young people.
Our goal is to develop our workforce, strengthen our economic growth, and keep our 
young people in our state.  Let it be said that here in Iowa, we put our money where 
our tomorrow is.
And finally, we propose to be known as the first in the nation as we lead the way to 
the future.  We will do this in two ways - through government efficiency, and by the 
foresight and power of a strategic plan for the next century.
We will make good on our promise of providing property tax relief by virtually 
eliminating property tax funding of mental health.  Let us begin that process now.
We will build a more efficient administration, reduce our dependency on gaming 
revenues in the general fund and institute efficiency measures like offering early 
retirement programs and spending reforms. We're listening to the people, and we're 

acting on what we hear. 
We face a strong set of challenges and unbridled opportunities.  We will not be 
daunted.
Let me read from one of my very first Executive Orders which will be issued in the 
near future:  "Now, therefore, I, Thomas J. Vilsack, Governor of Iowa, do hereby order 
and proclaim that there shall be an organized commitment to develop a strategic plan 
outlining our goal to maximize the development of human and natural resources within 
the state, and this commitment shall be called THE GOVERNOR'S STRATEGIC 
PLANNING COUNCIL."
Together, in a bi-partisan effort that includes full participation of private citizens, 
all levels of governmental employees, all communities, with specific emphasis on people 
with disabilities - we will identify the way Iowans want their state to be in the year 
2020.  And from that we will develop policies, programs, and procedures to carry out 
their vision.
We are excited by the challenge of tomorrow, and we are ready to meet it face-to-
face.
Our goal is an efficient government and a powerful plan for the new millennium. 
Let it be said that here in Iowa, we put our money where our future is.
There is no question that it is reasonable for us to aspire to be first. And so again I 
ask the question posed by an Iowa child.  What are we going to do together to ensure 
that Iowa will be first in education; first in the environment; first in health care; first 
in the fight against methamphetamine; first in workforce development and economic 
growth; and first in the future?
The answer resounds across this beautiful public room, owned by the people of our 
great state, and we all hear it.  We must work together. We must put Iowa first, before 
any personal or partisan agenda, before anything that might divide us.  We must make 
every effort to make Iowa first, working as if it were our last chance to do so. 
And so, I propose yet another first for us today - the one which can make all of the 
others possible.  Let us strive to be first in the nation in the true spirit of bi-
partisanship!
At a time when America is burdened by the ugliness of the Washington political 
scene - a scene divided by intense and sometimes angry partisanship which diverts our 
time, our resources, our good will, and especially the valuable work of our nation, let us 
learn a hard lesson: - the people must come first. How do we guarantee that when we 
leave here today we will walk away with a real commitment to work together? 
I don't have the whole answer, but I can propose a healthy way for us to start - if 
you will, a healthy first step.
Soon after the end of this address today, Lieutenant Governor Sally Pederson and I 
will be embarking on separate visits across the state to meet with the people of this 
state face-to-face to talk to them about these important budget decisions.  It would be 
easy for us to use this opportunity and the power and means of the Governor's office to 
proclaim a partisan agenda from east to west and north to south.  But that would be 

politics as usual.  And it's time for a change.
Instead, I spoke yesterday with the leadership of both the House and the Senate - 
from both sides of the aisle - and I invited leaders from both parties and from both 
chambers to accompany me around Iowa.  We are all Iowans.  We all have the best 
interests of the people at heart. We can begin this process by working together in the 
bright light of a new day. 
This is not our first day of school, but it may be our first step to tomorrow.  It's not 
our first job, and although I hold you folks in high esteem, I can assure you that you 
are not my first love.  But this is the first day of the remainder of our time together 
working for the people of Iowa.  It is a memorable day, and the tasks are daunting.  
But the doorways can be opened to new worlds that none of us have ever dreamed of.
We all share that sense of anticipation, that sense of concern about the 
responsibilities we face together.  But we are well-prepared.  We are well committed. 
We love this great land and the people we represent.
"So what are we going to do?"
Let us mark a new beginning.  Let us take these bold first steps into the future 
together.  Let us lead Iowa to be first in everything we attempt as we reach the 
culmination of Today's Dreams and Tomorrow's Iowa. 
Thank you, God bless you and God bless our Great State.
Governor Thomas J. Vilsack was escorted from the House chamber 
by the Legislative Inaugural Committee.
On motion by Siegrist of Pottawattamie, the joint convention was 
dissolved at 10:52 a.m.
The House resumed session at 10:52 a.m., Speaker Corbett in the 
chair.
The House stood at ease at 10:53 a.m., until the fall of the gavel.
The House resumed session at 11:08 a.m., Speaker pro tempore 
Rants of Woodbury in the chair.
On motion by Siegrist of Pottawattamie, the House was recessed at 
11:09 a.m., until 1:00 p.m.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The House reconvened at 1:00 p.m., Speaker pro tempore Rants in 
the chair.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS

House File 166, by Grundberg, Martin, Heaton, Brauns, Davis, 
Sunderbruch, Cormack, Johnson, Houser, Myers, Witt, Chapman, 
Foege, Holveck, and Barry, a bill for an act relating to third-party 
payment of health care coverage costs for mental health treatment 
services.
Read first time and referred to committee on human resources.
House File 167, by Alons, Jenkins, Hoffman, Barry, Witt, Weigel, 
Johnson, Eddie, Drees, Falck, Hahn, Mertz, Myers, Huseman, Rants, 
Whitead, Kettering, Klemme, Richardson, Shoultz, and Doderer, a 
bill for an act relating to telecommunications services which may be 
provided by a city utility and including effective date and retroactive 
applicability provisions.
Read first time and referred to committee on local government.
House File 168, by committee on local government, a bill for an 
act relating to the date of the annual sale of parcels with delinquent 
property taxes and providing an effective and applicability date.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 169, by Burnett, a bill for an act providing that a 
prevailing property owner or aggrieved taxpayer in a property tax 
challenge may recover reasonable attorney fees from the taxing 
bodies involved in the appeal.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
House File 170, by Doderer, Boddicker, Murphy, Myers, 
Reynolds, Witt, and Jochum, a bill for an act relating to the licensing 
of certified professional midwives, establishing the board of 
professional midwife examiners, and prohibiting the use of the title 
certified professional midwife without a license.
Read first time and referred to committee on human resources.
SENATE MESSAGES CONSIDERED

Senate File 10, by committee on natural resources and 
environment, a bill for an act relating to the issuance of nonresident 
hunting licenses, to the maximum number of deer and wild turkey 
hunting licenses issued to nonresidents, and to certain allocations of 
nonresident licenses, and providing an effective date.
Read first time and referred to committee on natural resources.
Senate File 37, by committee on natural resources and 
environment, a bill for an act relating to the hunting of mourning 
doves and subjecting violators to a penalty.
Read first time and referred to committee on natural resources.
Senate File 47, by committee on commerce, a bill for an act 
relating to the classification of funding agreements issued by a life 
insurance company for purposes of the prioritization of claims against 
the assets of an insurer subject to supervision, rehabilitation, and 
liquidation, and including an effective date and a retroactive 
applicability provision.
Read first time and referred to committee on commerce-
regulation.
Senate File 51, by committee on natural resources and 
environment, a bill for an act authorizing a county conservation board 
to cooperate with private, not-for-profit organizations to carry out 
conservation and recreation programs.
Read first time and referred to committee on natural resources.
PRESENTATION OF VISITORS
The Speaker announced that the following visitors were present in 
the House chamber:
Seventeen students from Iowa Lakes Community College, 
Estherville, Iowa, accompanied by four advisors.  By Frevert of Palo 
Alto and Stevens of Dickinson.
COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED

The following communications were received and filed in the office 
of the Chief Clerk:
CITIZENS' AIDE/OMBUDSMAN
A report on the Investigation of how the Des Moines Police Department handles 
complaints about its officers, pursuant to Chapter 2C.9(1), Code of Iowa.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
A report identifying each profession and specifically in accord with the statute, 
reports the adoption or nonadoption of rules relating to the duties of the board as 
specified in that section of the Code and the number of complaints opened, peer review 
committees and/or informal discussions, disciplinary actions taken, cases closed and 
appeals to the court, pursuant to Chapter 272C.4(2), Code of Iowa.
CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION
MR. SPEAKER: The Chief Clerk of the House respectfully reports 
that a certificate of recognition has been issued as follows.
ELIZABETH A. ISAACSON
Chief Clerk of the House
1999\94	Janelle Hester, Davenport - For winning 1st place in the 1999 Iowa 
African American History Month Essay Contest.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
House File124
Labor and Industrial Relations:  Dolecheck, Chair; Connors and Horbach.
House File 152
Labor and Industrial Relations:  Dolecheck, Chair; Falck and Horbach.
Senate File 47
Commerce and Regulation:  Bradley, Chair; Hoffman and Wise.
HOUSE STUDY BILL SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT
House Study Bill 18
Labor and Industrial Relations:  Horbach, Chair; Dolecheck and Taylor.
HOUSE STUDY BILL COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

H.S.B. 22  Ways and Means
Exempting internet and other on-line services from the state sales, 
services, and use taxes.
H.S.B. 23  Ways and Means
Exempting the sale of argon gas used in the manufacturing process 
from the sales and use taxes.
H.S.B. 24  Ways and Means
Relating to the administration of the state individual income tax, 
corporate income tax, sales and use taxes, franchise tax, motor fuel 
taxes, inheritance and estate taxes, property taxes, collection of taxes 
and debts owed to or collected by the state, and including effective 
and retroactive applicability date provisions.
H.S.B. 25  Ways and Means
Updating the Iowa Code references to the Internal Revenue Code, 
extending the loss carryback period for farm net operating losses, 
providing certain tax credits to estates and trusts, and providing an 
effective date and a retroactive applicability date.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION
MR. SPEAKER: The Chief Clerk of the House respectfully reports 
that the following committee recommendation has been received and 
is on file in the office of the Chief Clerk.
ELIZABETH A. ISAACSON
Chief Clerk of the House
COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE-REGULATION
Senate File 47, a bill for an act relating to the classification of funding agreements 
issued by a life insurance company for purposes of the prioritization of claims against 
the assets of an insurer subject to supervision, rehabilitation, and liquidation, and 
including an effective date and a retroactive applicability provision.
Fiscal Note is not required.
	Recommended Do Pass January 28, 1999. 

RESOLUTION FILED
SCR 2, by committee on rules and administration, a concurrent 
resolution relating to the compensation of chaplains, officers and 
employees of the seventy-eighth general assembly.
Referred to committee on administration and rules.
On motion by Siegrist of Pottawattamie the House adjourned at 
1:05 p.m., until 1:00 p.m., Monday, February 1, 1999.
204	JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE	18th Day
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