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House Journal: Thursday, March 11, 1999

Sixtieth Calendar Day - Thirty-seventh Session Day

Hall of the House of Representatives
Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, March 11, 1999
The House met pursuant to adjournment at 8:45 a.m., Speaker pro
tempore Rants in the chair.
Prayer was offered by Reverend Jim Altenbaumer, pastor of The
United Church of Christ, Cedar Falls.
The Journal of Wednesday, March 10, 1999 was approved.
PETITION FILED
The following petition was received and placed on file:
By Representative Arnold of Lucas from eighty constituents from
the 91st district, opposing electric company deregulation.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Leave of absence was granted as follows:
Siegrist of Pottawattamie and Speaker Corbett on request of Rants of Woodbury.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
House File 625, by committee on education, a bill for an act
relating to teacher shortage areas and the board of educational
examiners, establishing a teacher shortage forgivable loan and fund,
providing for teacher recruitment and preparation, and a task force to
study the use of retired professionals as mentors and teacher aides,
making an appropriation, and providing an effective date.
Read first time and referred to committee on appropriations.
House File 626, by committee on labor and industrial relations, a
bill for an act concerning the workforce development department, by
providing for the establishment of a workforce development
corporation, expenses for members of the regional advisory board to

the workforce development board, authority to charge fees for certain
services of the department, and Iowa conservation corps employee
rights.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 627, by Mascher, a bill for an act relating to the
advanced placement program grants and making an appropriation.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 628, by Fallon, a bill for an act providing for a
deviation from the child support guidelines when both parents are
awarded joint physical care, and making a conforming change
relating to the amount to be collected by the child support recovery
unit.
Read first time and referred to committee on human resources.
House File 629, by Fallon, a bill for an act relating to procedures
for establishing and making changes to the network of commercial
and industrial highways.
Read first time and referred to committee on transportation.
House File 630, by Jochum, a bill for an act requiring licensure of
orthopedic physician assistants, establishing a board of orthopedic
physician assistant examiners, establishing fees and penalties, and
providing for properly related matters.
Read first time and referred to committee on state government.
House File 631, by Jochum, a bill for an act establishing an
access education grant program and making an appropriation.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 632, by committee on human resources, a bill for an
act relating to welfare reform provisions involving the family invest-
ment program and individual development accounts.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.

House File 633, by committee on human resources, a bill for an
act restricting the awarding of child visitation rights to a parent
convicted of murder in the first degree of the other parent.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 634, by committee on transportation, a bill for an act
relating to expenditure of moneys from the primary road fund for
dust control on certain roads.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 635, by committee on transportation, a bill for an act
relating to railroad rights of way acquired by persons other than a
railroad and providing for assessment of costs.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 636, by committee on environmental protection, a bill
for an act relating to review and oversight of actions of the United
States environmental protection agency.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 637, by committee on transportation, a bill for an act
increasing the fine for moving traffic violations in school zones.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 638, by committee on human resources, a bill for an
act relating to the reimbursement rate for federally qualified health
centers and rural health clinics under the medical assistance
program.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 639, by Mascher, a bill for an act relating to prac-
titioner preparation and peer assistance and review for teachers.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.

House File 640, by Burnett, a bill for an act relating to discharge
of firearms near an entrance to a driveway to inhabited buildings or a
school bus stop and providing a penalty.
Read first time and referred to committee on natural resources.
House File 641, by Horbach, a bill for an act making an
appropriation from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund to the
department of general services for projects at the Toledo juvenile
home.
Read first time and referred to committee on appropriations.
House File 642, by Murphy, a bill for an act prohibiting certain
acts associated with telemarketing sales calls and making a penalty
applicable.
Read first time and referred to committee on commerce and
regulation.
House File 643, by Jochum, a bill for an act requiring the
development of clean air standards for animal feeding operations and
making penalties applicable.
Read first time and referred to committee on agriculture.
House File 644, by Huser, a bill for an act relating to annexation
moratorium agreements and annexation by certain cities.
Read first time and referred to committee on local government.
House File 645, by Heaton, a bill for an act authorizing a provider
of medical assistance for mental health and mental retardation
services for which the nonfederal share is a county liability to bill the
liability amount directly to the county.
Read first time and referred to committee on local government.
House File 646, by Millage, a bill for an act relating to elections

at which certain propositions of cities, counties, and school
corporations may be placed on the ballot.
Read first time and referred to committee on state government.
House File 647, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act
relating to judges, concerning associate juvenile judges, associate
probate judges, and retired judges.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 648, by committee on commerce and regulation, a bill
for an act relating to the exclusion of certain real estate transactions
involving a power of attorney from state licensure and regulation.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 649, by committee on natural resources, a bill for an
act relating to the issuance of a limited number of deer or wild turkey
hunting licenses.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 650, by committee on natural resources, a bill for an
act relating to the taking of muskrats by colony trap.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 651, by committee on transportation, a bill for an act
relating to implements of husbandry and restrictions on the
movement of such implements, and other vehicles, upon the highways
of this state and making penalties applicable.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 652, by Jenkins, a bill for an act establishing a
protocol for visitors to the state capitol.
Read first time and referred to committee on state government.
House File 653, by Welter, Warnstadt, and Whitead, a bill for an

act concerning the manufacture of beer, wine, cider, or mead for
family or personal use and subjecting violators to a penalty.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
House File 654, by Wise, a bill for an act relating to the
establishment of charter schools.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
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
March 10, 1999, passed the following bill in which the concurrence of the House is
asked:
Senate File 203, a bill for an act relating to transportation, including regulation of
school buses and special trucks, vehicle titling and registration, commercial driver's
licenses, regulations on motor carriers, regulations on motor vehicle manufacturers,
distributors, and dealers, size, weight, and load restrictions on vehicles, driver
education, transportation of students, equipment on vehicles, recision of a driver's
license revocation, and administrative procedures of the state department of
transportation, and providing for fees and penalties and an effective date.
Also: That the Senate has on March 10, 1999, passed the following bill in which the
concurrence of the House is asked:
Senate File 276, a bill for an act relating to health care service and treatment
coverage by providing for continuity of care, discussion and advocacy of treatment
options, coverage of emergency room services, utilization review requirements, and an
external review process, and providing an effective date.
Also: That the Senate has on March 10, 1999, passed the following bill in which the
concurrence of the House is asked:
Senate File 305, a bill for an act relating to the payment by a county of the family
farm tax credit and reimbursement to the county of its payment and including an
effective date.
Also: That the Senate has on March 10, 1999, passed the following bill in which the
concurrence of the House is asked:
Senate File 308, a bill for an act relating to the levy rate for fire protection imposed
in an area of a benefited fire district and including an effective date.
Also: That the Senate has on March 10, 1999, passed the following bill in which the

concurrence of the House is asked:
Senate File 361, a bill for an act relating to enforcement, prevention, education, and
treatment for substance abuse and sexual abuse, and providing appropriations.
MICHAEL E. MARSHALL, Secretary
SENATE MESSAGE CONSIDERED
Senate File 203, by committee on transportation, a bill for an act
relating to transportation, including regulation of school buses and
special trucks, vehicle titling and registration, commercial driver's
licenses, regulations on motor carriers, regulations on motor vehicle
manufacturers, distributors, and dealers, size, weight, and load
restrictions on vehicles, driver education, transportation of students,
equipment on vehicles, recision of a driver's license revocation, and
administrative procedures of the state department of transportation,
and providing for fees and penalties and an effective date.
Read first time and passed on file.
CONSIDERATION OF BILLS
Regular Calendar
House File 417, a bill for an act relating to release of certain
information on claimants of the property tax rent reimbursement to
the department of inspections and appeals, was taken up for
consideration.
Holmes of Scott moved that the bill be read a last time now and
placed upon its passage which motion prevailed and the bill was read
a last time.
On the question "Shall the bill pass?" (H.F. 417)
The ayes were, 98:
Alons Arnold Barry Baudler
Bell Blodgett Boal Boddicker
Boggess Bradley Brauns Brunkhorst
Bukta Burnett Carroll Cataldo
Chapman Chiodo Cohoon Connors
Cormack Davis Dix Doderer
Dolecheck Dotzler Drake Drees^
Eddie Falck Fallon Foege
Ford Frevert Garman Gipp
Greiner Grundberg Hahn Hansen
Heaton Hoffman Holmes Holveck
Horbach Houser Huseman Huser
Jacobs Jager Jenkins Jochum
Johnson Kettering Klemme Kreiman
Kuhn Larkin Larson Lord
Martin Mascher May Mertz
Metcalf Millage Mundie Murphy
Myers Nelson O'Brien Osterhaus
Parmenter Raecker Rayhons Reynolds
Richardson Scherrman Schrader Shoultz
Stevens Sukup Sunderbruch Taylor
Teig Thomas Thomson Tyrrell
Van Engelenhoven Van Fossen Warnstadt Weidman
Weigel Welter Whitead Wise
Witt Rants,
Presiding
The nays were, none.
Absent or not voting, 2:
Corbett, Spkr. Siegrist
The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to
have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
House File 403, a bill for an act relating to the fingerprinting of
persons or juveniles who have been arrested or taken into custody
and changing the procedures for the collection of a criminal dis-
position report, was taken up for consideration.
Raecker of Polk offered the following amendment H?1053 filed by
him and moved its adoption:
H-1053
1 Amend House File 403 as follows:
2 1. Page 1, line 3, by striking the words "and
3 photographs" and inserting the following: "and
4 photographs".
5 2. Page 1, line 6, by inserting after the word
6 "misdemeanor." the following: "In addition,
7 photographs of a child who has been taken into custody
8 may be taken and filed by a criminal or juvenile
9 justice agency investigating the commission of a
10 public offense other than a simple misdemeanor."
Amendment H?1053 was adopted.

Raecker of Polk moved that the bill be read a last time now and
placed upon its passage which motion prevailed and the bill was read
a last time.
On the question "Shall the bill pass?" (H.F. 403)
The ayes were, 97:
Alons Arnold Barry Baudler
Bell Blodgett Boal Boddicker
Boggess Bradley Brauns Brunkhorst
Bukta Burnett Carroll Cataldo
Chapman Chiodo Cohoon Connors
Cormack Davis Dix Doderer
Dolecheck Dotzler Drake Drees
Eddie Falck Fallon Foege
Ford Frevert Garman Gipp
Greiner Grundberg Hahn Hansen
Heaton Hoffman Holmes Holveck
Horbach Houser Huseman Huser
Jacobs Jenkins Jochum Johnson
Kettering Klemme Kreiman Kuhn
Larkin Larson Lord Martin
Mascher May Mertz Metcalf
Millage Mundie Murphy Myers
Nelson O'Brien Osterhaus Parmenter
Raecker Rayhons Reynolds Richardson
Scherrman Schrader Shoultz Stevens
Sukup Sunderbruch Taylor Teig
Thomas Thomson Tyrrell Van Engelenhoven
Van Fossen Warnstadt Weidman Weigel
Welter Whitead Wise Witt
Rants,
Presiding
The nays were, none.
Absent or not voting, 3:
Corbett, Spkr. Jager Siegrist
The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to
have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
IMMEDIATE MESSAGES

Gipp of Winneshiek asked and received unanimous consent that
the following bills be immediately messaged to the Senate: House
Files 417 and 403.
House File 445, a bill for an act relating to the rights of a
dissenting shareholder of a state bank, was taken up for
consideration.
Weigel of Chickasaw asked and received unanimous consent that
amendment H-1055 be deferred.
Wise of Lee offered the following amendment H?1073 filed by him
and moved its adoption:
H-1073
1 Amend House File 445 as follows:
2 1. Page 1, line 23, by striking the word "shall"
3 and inserting the following: "may".
4 2. Page 1, line 29, by inserting after the word
5 "bank." the following: "A judgment in the action
6 shall not determine fair value for a share to be less
7 than the stockholders' equity in the bank in its last
8 statement of condition filed under section 524.220
9 divided by the number of shares outstanding."
10 3. Page 2, by striking lines 1 and 2 and
11 inserting the following: "paid to all shareholders
12 entitled to payment for their shares upon receipt of
13 such shareholders' share certificates."
Amendment H?1073 was adopted, placing amendment H-1056
filed by Weigel of Chickasaw on March 9, 1999, out of order.
Wise of Lee asked and received unanimous consent to withdraw
amendment H-1066 filed by him and Rants of Woodbury on March
10, 1999.
Weigel of Chickasaw offered the following amendment H?1055,
previously deferred, filed by him and moved its adoption:
H-1055
1 Amend House File 445 as follows:
2 1. Page 1, line 3, by striking the letter "a."

3 2. By striking page 1, line 10, through page 2,
4 line 2.
A non-record roll call was requested.
The ayes were 35, nays 51.
Amendment H?1055 lost.
Wise of Lee moved that the bill be read a last time now and placed
upon its passage which motion prevailed and the bill was read a last
time.
On the question "Shall the bill pass?" (H.F. 445)
The ayes were, 75:
Alons Arnold Barry Baudler
Bell Blodgett Boal Boddicker
Boggess Bradley Brauns Brunkhorst
Bukta Burnett Carroll Cataldo
Chapman Chiodo Cohoon Davis
Dix Doderer Dolecheck Drake
Eddie Falck Foege Ford
Garman Gipp Greiner Grundberg
Hahn Hansen Heaton Hoffman
Holmes Horbach Houser Huseman
Huser Jacobs Jager Jenkins
Johnson Kettering Klemme Larkin
Larson Lord Martin Mascher
May Mertz Metcalf Millage
Nelson O'Brien Raecker Rayhons
Stevens Sukup Sunderbruch Teig
Thomas Thomson Tyrrell Van Engelenhoven
Van Fossen Warnstadt Weidman Welter
Wise Witt Rants,
Presiding
The nays were, 22:
Connors Cormack Dotzler Drees
Fallon Frevert Holveck Jochum
Kreiman Kuhn Mundie Murphy
Myers Osterhaus Parmenter Reynolds
Richardson Scherrman Schrader Taylor
Weigel Whitead
Absent or not voting, 3:

Corbett, Spkr. Shoultz Siegrist
The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to
have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
IMMEDIATE MESSAGE
Gipp of Winneshiek asked and received unanimous consent that
House File 445 be immediately messaged to the Senate.
House File 441, a bill for an act relating to transportation,
including regulation of school buses and special trucks, vehicle titling
and registration, commercial driver's licenses, regulations on motor
carriers, regulations on motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors,
and dealers, size, weight, and load restrictions on vehicles, driver
education, and administrative procedures of the state department of
transportation, and providing for fees and penalties and an effective
date, was taken up for consideration.
Huser of Polk offered the following amendment H?1074 filed by
her and Welter of Jones and moved its adoption:
H-1074
1 Amend House File 441 as follows:
2 1. Page 8, by inserting after line 11 the
3 following:
4 "Sec. . Section 321.180B, subsection 2,
5 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 1999, is amended to read
6 as follows:
7 The department may issue an intermediate driver's
8 license to a person sixteen or seventeen years of age
9 who possesses an instruction permit issued under
10 subsection 1 or a comparable instruction permit issued
11 by another state for a minimum of six months, and who
12 presents an affidavit signed by a parent or guardian
13 on a form to be provided by the department that the
14 permittee has accumulated a total of twenty hours of
15 street or highway driving of which two hours were
16 conducted after sunset and before sunrise and the
17 street or highway driving was with the permittee's
18 parent, guardian, instructor, a person certified by
19 the department, or a person at least twenty-five years
20 of age who had written permission from a parent or
21 guardian to accompany the permittee, and whose driving
22 privileges have not been suspended, revoked, or barred

23 under this chapter or chapter 321J during, and who has
24 been accident and conviction free continuously for,
25 the six-month period immediately preceding the
26 application for an intermediate license. An applicant
27 for an intermediate license must meet the requirements
28 of section 321.186, including satisfactory completion
29 of driver education as required in section 321.178,
30 and payment of the required license fee before an
31 intermediate license will be issued. A person issued
32 an intermediate license must limit the number of
33 passengers in the motor vehicle when the intermediate
34 licensee is operating the motor vehicle to the number
35 of passenger safety belts.
36 Sec. . Section 321.180B, subsection 4, Code
37 1999, is amended to read as follows:
38 4. FULL DRIVER'S LICENSE. A full driver's license
39 may be issued to a person seventeen years of age who
40 possesses an intermediate license issued under
41 subsection 2 or a comparable intermediate license
42 issued by another state for a minimum of twelve
43 months, and who presents an affidavit signed by a
44 parent or guardian on a form to be provided by the
45 department that the intermediate licensee has
46 accumulated a total of ten hours of street or highway
47 driving of which two hours were conducted after sunset
48 and before sunrise and the street or highway driving
49 was with the licensee's parent, guardian, instructor,
50 a person certified by the department, or a person at
Page 2
1 least twenty-five years of age who had written
2 permission from a parent or guardian to accompany the
3 licensee, whose driving privileges have not been
4 suspended, revoked, or barred under this chapter or
5 chapter 321J during, and who has been accident and
6 conviction free continuously for, the twelve-month
7 period immediately preceding the application for a
8 full driver's license, and who has paid the required
9 fee."
10 2. Page 8, by inserting after line 24 the
11 following:
12 "Sec. . NEW SECTION. 321.377 REGIONAL TRANSIT
13 SYSTEM TRANSPORTATION.
14 A vehicle operated by a regional transit system as
15 defined in section 324A.1 may only provide school
16 transportation services pursuant to rules adopted by
17 the state department of transportation in consultation
18 with the department of education.
19 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 321.404A LIGHT -
20 RESTRICTING DEVICES PROHIBITED.
21 1. A person shall not operate a motor vehicle,

22 motorcycle, or motorized bicycle on the highways of
23 this state if it is equipped with a device that
24 restricts the light output of a head lamp required
25 under section 321.385 or 321.386, a rear lamp required
26 under section 321.387, a signal lamp or signal device
27 required under section 321.404, or a directional
28 signal device as described in section 321.317.
29 2. A person who violates this section shall be
30 subject to a scheduled fine under section 805.8,
31 subsection 2, paragraph "d"."
32 3. Page 10, by inserting after line 26 the
33 following:
34 "Sec. 100. Section 321A.17, Code 1999, is amended
35 by adding the following new subsection:
36 NEW SUBSECTION. 8. This section does not apply to
37 an individual whose administrative license revocation
38 has been rescinded under section 321J.13, and who is
39 otherwise under no obligation to furnish proof of
40 financial responsibility."
41 4. Page 10, by striking lines 27 and 28 and
42 inserting the following:
43 "Sec. ___. Section 321E.8, subsections 2 and 3,
44 Code 1999, are amended to read as follows:"
45 5. Page 11, by inserting after line 10 the
46 following:
47 "3. Vehicles with indivisible loads, including
48 mobile homes and factory-built structures, having an
49 overall width not to exceed sixteen feet zero inches
50 and an overall length not to exceed one hundred twenty
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1 feet zero inches may be moved under an annual or all-
2 systems permit and must have a route specified by the
3 issuing authority prior to the movement. However,
4 vehicles with indivisible loads, including mobile
5 homes and factory-built structures, with an overall
6 width not exceeding fourteen feet six inches may
7 exceed fifty miles under an annual and all-systems
8 permit when prior approval for trip routing is
9 obtained from the issuing authority. The A vehicle
10 and load being moved according to this paragraph shall
11 not exceed the fifteen feet five inches in height as
12 prescribed in section 321.456 and shall not exceed the
13 total gross weight as prescribed in section 321.463."
14 6. Page 11, by inserting after line 26 the
15 following:
16 "Sec. 200. Section 321J.13, Code 1999, is amended
17 by adding the following new subsection:
18 NEW SUBSECTION. 6. a. The department shall grant
19 a request for a hearing to rescind the revocation if
20 the person whose motor vehicle license or operating

21 privilege has been or is being revoked under section
22 321J.9 or 321J.12 submits a petition containing
23 information relating to the discovery of new evidence
24 that provides grounds for recision of the revocation.
25 b. The person shall prevail at the hearing if, in
26 the criminal action on the charge of violation of
27 section 321J.2 or 321J.2A resulting from the same
28 circumstances that resulted in the administrative
29 revocation being challenged, the court held one of the
30 following:
31 (1) That the peace officer did not have reasonable
32 grounds to believe that a violation of section 321J.2
33 or 321J.2A had occurred to support a request for or to
34 administer a chemical test.
35 (2) That the chemical test was otherwise
36 inadmissible or invalid.
37 c. Such a holding by the court in the criminal
38 action is binding on the department, and the
39 department shall rescind the revocation."
40 7. Page 12, by inserting after line 27 the
41 following:
42 "Sec. . Section 805.8, subsection 2, paragraph
43 d, Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
44 d. For improper equipment under section 321.404A
45 or section 321.438, subsection 2, the scheduled fine
46 is fifteen dollars."
47 8. Page 13, by inserting after line 16 the
48 following:
49 " . Section 100, amending section 321A.17.
50 . Section 15, amending section 321E.8."
Page 4
1 9. Page 13, by inserting after line 17 the
2 following:
3 " . Section 200, amending section 321J.13."
4 10. Title page, line 6, by inserting after the
5 word "education," the following: "transportation of
6 students, equipment on vehicles, recision of a
7 driver's license revocation,".
8 11. By renumbering and correcting internal
9 references as necessary.
Amendment H?1074 was adopted.
SENATE FILE 203 SUBSTITUTED FOR HOUSE FILE 441
Huser of Polk asked and received unanimous consent to substitute
Senate File 203 for House File 441.
Senate File 203, a bill for an act relating to transportation,

including regulation of school buses and special trucks, vehicle titling
and registration, commercial driver's licenses, regulations on motor
carriers, regulations on motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors,
and dealers, size, weight, and load restrictions on vehicles, driver
education, transportation of students, equipment on vehicles, recision
of a driver's license revocation, and administrative procedures of the
state department of transportation, and providing for fees and
penalties and an effective date, was taken up for consideration.
Gipp of Winneshiek asked and received unanimous consent that
Senate File 203 be deferred and that the bill be placed on the
unfinished business calendar.
HOUSE FILE 533 REREFERRED
The Speaker announced that House File 533, previously referred
to committee on commerce and regulation was rereferred to
committee on appropriations.
PRESENTATION OF VISITORS
The Speaker announced that the following visitors were present in
the House chamber:
Twenty-two students from Southeast Polk Alternative Schools,
Indianola and Newton, accompanied by their instructors. By Bell of
Jasper, Huser of Polk and Richardson of Warren.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
House File 123 Reassigned
Judiciary: Jager, Chair; Baudler and Kreiman.
House File 237 Reassigned
Judiciary: Larson, Chair; Kreiman and Sukup.
House File 360
Local Government: Van Engelenhoven, Chair; Arnold and Kuhn.
House File 411

Human Resources: Ford, Chair; Boddicker and Witt.
House File 453 Reassigned
Judiciary: Bell, Chair; Davis and Shoultz.
House File 526
Judiciary: Boddicker, Chair; Barry and Bell.
House File 604
Human Resources: Blodgett, Chair; Brunkhorst and Foege.
House File 624
Commerce and Regulation: Jacobs, Chair; Drees and Jenkins.
Senate Joint Resolution 2
State Government: Martin, Chair; Jacobs and Jochum
HOUSE STUDY BILL SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
House Study Bill 86 Reassigned
Judiciary: Raecker, Chair; Chapman and Davis.
House Study Bill 245
Ways and Means: Raecker, Chair; Drake and Shoultz.
House Study Bill 246
Environmental Protection: Bradley, Chair; Drake and Witt.
House Study Bill 249
Ways and Means: Holmes, Chair; Jenkins and Shoultz.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS
MR. SPEAKER: The Chief Clerk of the House respectfully reports
that the following committee recommendations have been received
and are on file in the office of the Chief Clerk.
ELIZABETH A. ISAACSON
Chief Clerk of the House
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

House File 339, a bill for an act extending the deadline for closing agricultural
drainage wells and making penalties applicable.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 10, 1999.
House File 343, a bill for an act providing for the collection of moneys by a county
board of supervisors arising out of the construction of a drainage improvement within a
railroad right-of-way.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 289), relating to practices involving the
marketing of livestock by packers, by prohibiting price discrimination, requiring
reporting, and providing criminal penalties and civil remedies.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10,1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 406), relating to Iowa agricultural industry
finance corporations and investments by banks.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 510), relating to habitual violators of
regulations relating to confinement feeding operations, by providing for penalties and
the forfeiture of property, and providing an effective date.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 141), relating to the Iowa egg council
by providing for its administration and membership.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE AND REGULATION
House File 433, a bill for an act relating to the exclusion of certain transactions
involving a public utility or common carrier from the applicability of the consumer
credit code.
Fiscal Note is not required.

Recommended Amend and Do Pass with amendment H-1080 March 10, 1999.
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 484), amending provisions in the "Iowa
Agricultural Industry Finance Act".
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 9, 1999.
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
House File 568, a bill for an act authorizing the board of directors of a school
district to charge a reasonable fee for motor vehicle parking in parking facilities located
on school grounds.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Committee Action: Failed to Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 388), relating to area education agencies
and school districts by modifying the time guidelines concerning bargaining by certain
employees, and changing dates relating to budget certification and notice of teacher
termination for school districts.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 183), relating to schools and school
districts by affecting boiler and steam vessel maintenance and monitoring, publication
of billing information, the regular school calendar, superintendent licensure and
qualifications, and school breakfast programming.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 208), relating to certain student loan
funds under the control of the college student aid commission, by adding an agency
operating account, and authorizing the commission to expend moneys as authorized by
the federal Higher Education Act of 1965.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 234), to provide for a community
college governance structure study.
Fiscal Note is not required.

Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 20), relating to the family investment
program and food stamp benefits by providing for the ineligibility of individuals
convicted of certain felony offenses involving a controlled substance and providing an
applicability provision.
Fiscal Note is required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 9, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 286), providing for conditional employment
pending the outcome of background checks for health care facility employees.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 4, 1999.
COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT
House File 234, a bill for an act limiting the liability of the state and political
subdivisions of the state for certain losses caused by the failure of computer software or
a device containing a computer processor.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Joint Resolution 10), requesting the United
States Department of Defense and the United States Army to place additional
production work at the Rock Island Arsenal.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 384), providing for the designation of a state
poet laureate.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 408), relating to drawing the Sac and Fox
Indian settlement precinct in Tama county.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 10, 1999.

Committee Bill (Formerly House File 420), relating to a study by the department
of cultural affairs concerning the establishment of an Iowa freedom trail program.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 119), providing registration
requirements and establishing a scope of authority for dental assistants.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 178), relating to gambling by
imposing a moratorium on the issuance or transfer of certain gambling licenses and on
increasing the numbers of games and machines, providing for the transfer of collective
bargaining agreements, limiting the location of excursion gambling boats and pari-
mutuel racetracks, regulating the dispensing of moneys by credit card or other
electronic means for gambling purposes, limiting civil penalties for violations of
gambling under legal age, providing for the disposition of charitable contributions,
imposing a scheduled fine for gambling by persons under twenty-one years of age, and
providing an effective date.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 197), concerning governmental
deferred compensation programs by providing for multiple programs, investment
options, and marketing requirements for the programs.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 216), to nullify administrative rules of
the state racing and gaming commission concerning the dispensing of credit for
gambling purposes, the number and location of pari-mutuel racetracks with gambling
machines and excursion gambling boats, and the increase in the gambling machines,
games, and tables at racetracks and excursion gambling boats, and providing an
effective date.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 10, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House Study Bill 222), relating to elections and voter
registration by enacting provisions relating to election misconduct and providing
criminal penalties, to voter registration deadlines and voter registration by mail, to
written summaries of proposed constitutional amendments or of certain other public

measures, and to absentee voting and requirements and prohibitions related to
receiving, handling, and delivering absentee ballots, and including effective date and
applicability date provisions.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 10, 1999.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
House File 306, a bill for an act prohibiting the state department of transportation
from selling certain information maintained by the department.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 11, 1999.
House File 620, a bill for an act relating to persons with disabilities registration
plates for trailers.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Do Pass March 11, 1999.
Committee Bill (Formerly House File 504), directing the state department of
transportation to conduct a study on the use of corn-based de-icers.
Fiscal Note is not required.
Recommended Amend and Do Pass March 11, 1999.
AMENDMENTS FILED
H-1075 H.F. 233 Bradley of Clinton
O'Brien of Boone Van Engelenhoven of Mahaska
Frevert of Palo Alto Brunkhorst of Bremer
H-1076 S.F. 106 Bradley of Clinton
O'Brien of Boone Van Engelenhoven of Mahaska
Frevert of Palo Alto Brunkhorst of Bremer
H-1077 H.F. 608 O'Brien of Boone
H-1078 H.F. 590 Fallon of Polk
Reynolds of Van Buren
H-1079 H.F. 608 Mundie of Webster
H-1080 H.F. 433 Committee on Commerce and
Regulation
On motion by Gipp of Winneshiek the House adjourned at 10:14

a.m., until 8:45 a.m., Friday, March 12, 1999.
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