House Journal: Friday, February 5, 1999

Twenty-sixth Calendar Day - Seventeenth Session Day

Hall of the House of Representatives
Des Moines, Iowa, Friday, February 5, 1999
The House met pursuant to adjournment at 9:00 a.m., Heaton of 
Henry in the chair.
Prayer was offered by Jill Beni, clerk of the honorable State 
Representative Dave Heaton of Henry County. 
The Journal of Thursday, February 4, 1999 was approved.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
House File 209, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act 
relating to increasing the penalty for eluding or attempting to elude 
an official law enforcement vehicle.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 210, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act 
relating to the exclusion of certain transactions under the business 
opportunities law and providing effective and retroactive applicability 
dates.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 211, by Carroll, a bill for an act relating to notification 
requirements associated with the perfection of mechanics' liens by a 
person furnishing labor or materials to a subcontractor, and 
providing an effective date.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
House File 212, by Huser, Gipp, Thomas, Falck, Sunderbruch, 
Teig, and Jager, a bill for an act relating to townships and township 
officers and the powers and duties of township trustees relating to 
budgets and finances.
	Read first time and referred to committee on local government.

House File 213, by Richardson, a bill for an act specifying lighting 
equipment for snowplows, regulating snowplow operations, and 
making penalties applicable.
Read first time and referred to committee on transportation.
House File 214, by O'Brien, a bill for an act relating to making 
technology adopted and purchased by a school district under the 
school improvement technology program available to students of 
accredited nonpublic schools.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 215, by Larson, Osterhaus, Thomson, Tyrrell, 
Dolecheck, Sunderbruch, Lord, Boal, Thomas, Davis, Brunkhorst, 
Welter, Baudler, Bell, and Mundie, a bill for an act relating to drug 
and alcohol testing of students by schools.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
House File 216, by Weigel, a bill for an act delaying the required 
dates for certification of manure applicators, and providing an 
effective date.
Read first time and referred to committee on agriculture.
House File 217, by Kreiman, a bill for an act relating to the 
maximum fine for knowingly trespassing on the property of another 
person.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
House File 218, by Barry, a bill for an act creating a loess hills 
preservation and development alliance, providing for its powers and 
duties, and providing for other properly related matters.
Read first time and referred to committee on natural resources.
	House File 219, by Scherrman and Frevert, a bill for an act 

relating to confinement feeding operations by providing for the siting 
of certain operations, imposing requirements relating to construction 
permits, and making penalties applicable.
Read first time and referred to committee on agriculture.
House File 220, by Scherrman, a bill for an act suspending the 
assessment imposed on the sale of porcine animals based on market 
prices.
Read first time and referred to committee on agriculture.
House File 221, by Thomas, a bill for an act providing for the 
equalization of the regular physical plant and equipment levy, and 
making an appropriation.
Read first time and referred to committee on appropriations.
House File 222, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act 
relating to crime victim rights.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 223, by Brunkhorst and Dix, a bill for an act relating 
to pipelines, interstate natural gas pipelines, and hazardous liquid 
pipelines, and the restoration of agricultural lands, making penalties 
applicable, and providing an effective date.
Read first time and referred to committee on natural resources.
House File 224, by Dix, a bill for an act relating to qualifications 
of commissioners for a city, county, or joint memorial hospital.
Read first time and referred to committee on local government.
House File 225, by Dix, a bill for an act relating to regulations 
adopted by local authorities regulating the turning of vehicles at and 
between intersections.
Read first time and referred to committee on transportation.
	House File 226, by Dolecheck and Richardson, a bill for an act 

establishing an on-site sewage disposal system assistance program 
and revolving fund and making an appropriation.
Read first time and referred to committee on environmental 
protection.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE
The following message was received from the Senate:
Mr. Speaker: I am directed to inform your honorable body that the Senate has on 
February 4, 1999, passed the following bill in which the concurrence of the House is 
asked:
Senate File 53, 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.
MICHAEL E. MARSHALL, Secretary
SENATE MESSAGE CONSIDERED
Senate File 53, 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 passed on file.
BILLS SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR
A communication was received from the Governor announcing that 
on February 4, 1999, he approved and transmitted to the Secretary of 
State the following bills:
House File 146, 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.
House File 147, 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.
COMMUNICATION RECEIVED

The following communication was received and filed in the office of 
the Chief Clerk:
CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
The 1998 Annual Report, pursuant to Chapter 262.78(6), Code of Iowa.
HOUSE STUDY BILL SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT
House Study Bill 77
Education:  Grundberg, Chair; Carroll, Eddie, Mascher and Wise.
On motion by Gipp of Winneshiek the House adjourned at 9:10 
a.m., until 1:00 p.m., Monday, February 8, 1999.
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