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House Journal: Tuesday, April 4, 2000

JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE

Eighty-sixth Calendar Day - Fifty-sixth Session Day

Hall of the House of Representatives
Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, April 4, 2000

The House met pursuant to adjournment at 8:50 a.m., Speaker
Siegrist in the chair.

Prayer was offered by Reverend Doug Pfeiffer, pastor of Altoona
Christian Church, Altoona.

The Journal of Monday, April 3, 2000 was approved.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE

Leave of absence was granted as follows:

Schrader of Marion on request of Myers of Johnson.

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
April 3, 2000, amended and passed the following bill in which the concurrence of the
House is asked:

House File 2198, a bill for an act directing the department of education to conduct a
feasibility study of reorganization and sharing incentives for school districts.

Also: That the Senate has on April 3, 2000, amended and passed the following bill
in which the concurrence of the House is asked:

House File 2463, a bill for an act relating to the department of personnel by
providing for the duties of the department, the administration of the department, and
benefits provided state employees, and providing effective and retroactive applicability
dates.

Also: That the Senate has on April 3, 2000, amended and passed the following bill
in which the concurrence of the House is asked:

House File 2533, a bill for an act appropriating federal funds made available from
federal block grants and other federal grants, allocating portions of federal block

grants, and providing procedures if federal funds are more or less than anticipated or if
federal block grants are more or less than anticipated and providing an effective date.

Also: That the Senate has on April 3, 2000, passed the following bill in which the
concurrence of the House is asked:

Senate File 2431, a bill for an act providing for a tax levy for a county hospital fund
in certain counties and providing an applicability and effective date.

MICHAEL E. MARSHALL, Secretary

SENATE MESSAGE CONSIDERED

Senate File 2431, by committee on ways and means, a bill for an
act providing for a tax levy for a county hospital fund in certain
counties and providing an applicability and effective date.

Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Van Engelenhoven of Mahaska presented to the House, Jessie
Kraayenbrink, Queen of the 2000 Pella Tulip Festival and escorted
her and her court to the Speaker's station.

Queen Kraayenbrink presented her attendants, Kimberly De
Bruin, Stephanie Roozeboom, Amy Jones and Melanie De Nooy.

Also present from Pella were the parents of the Queen and her
court, who wore native Dutch costume and distributed the famous
Pella Dutch cookies.

Queen Kraayenbrink addressed the House briefly and invited
everyone to attend the Pella Tulip Festival May 11, 12 and 13, 2000.

The House rose and expressed its welcome.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Fallon of Polk introduced to the House George Mills, an Iowa
historian and retired writer for the Des Moines Register who wrote
an article regarding Melvin and Phyllis Yates.

The House rose and expressed its appreciation.

ADOPTION OF HOUSE RESOLUTION 112

Fallon of Polk called up for consideration House Resolution 112, a
resolution honoring Melvin and Phyllis Yates, and moved its
adoption.

The motion prevailed and the resolution was adopted.

SENATE AMENDMENT CONSIDERED

Gipp of Winneshiek called up for consideration House File 2538,
a bill for an act relating to and making transportation and other
infrastructure-related appropriations to the state department of
transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the
general fund of the state, road use tax fund, and primary road fund,
and including fees for certain registration plates, allowing the
department to conduct a pilot project, and providing for the
nonreversion of certain moneys, amended by the Senate, and moved
that the House concur in the following Senate amendment H-8693:

H-8693

1 Amend House File 2538, as amended, passed, and
2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
3 1. Page 6, by inserting after line 24 the
4 following:
5 "Sec. 100. TEMPORARY TRANSFER OF RISE FUND MONEYS.
6 Notwithstanding provisions to the contrary in chapter
7 315, if the state transportation commission receives
8 and files a letter from the director of transportation
9 certifying that the state department of
10 transportation's cash flow funding may be inadequate
11 to meet anticipated road construction costs which
12 arise during the period beginning on the effective
13 date of this Act through June 30, 2001, the commission
14 may authorize the temporary transfer of funds from the
15 revitalize Iowa's sound economy (RISE) fund to the
16 primary road fund. Transferred funds shall be repaid
17 to the RISE fund within six months of transfer. The
18 commission shall manage the RISE fund to ensure that
19 funds will be available to meet contract obligations
20 on approved RISE projects.
21 Sec. ___. EFFECTIVE DATE. Section 100 of this
22 Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes
23 effect upon enactment."
24 2. Title page, line 7, by inserting after the
25 word "moneys" the following: ", and providing an

26 effective date".
27 3. By renumbering as necessary.

The motion prevailed and the House concurred in the Senate
amendment H-8693.

Gipp of Winneshiek moved that the bill, as amended by the Senate
and concurred in by the House, 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. 2538)

The ayes were, 95:
Alons Arnold Barry Baudler
Bell Blodgett Boal Boddicker
Boggess Bradley Brauns Brunkhorst
Bukta Carroll Cataldo Chiodo
Cohoon Connors Cormack Davis
Dix Doderer Dolecheck Dotzler
Drake Drees Eddie Falck
Foege Ford Garman Gipp
Greimann Greiner Grundberg Hahn
Hansen Heaton Hoffman Holmes
Holveck Horbach Houser Huseman
Huser Jacobs Jager Jenkins
Jochum Johnson Kettering Klemme
Kuhn Larkin Larson Lord
Martin Mascher May Mertz
Metcalf Millage Mundie Murphy
Myers Nelson-Forbes Osterhaus Parmenter
Raecker Rants Rayhons Reynolds
Richardson Scherrman Shey Shoultz
Stevens Sukup Sunderbruch Taylor, D.
Taylor, T. Teig Thomas Thomson
Tyrrell Van Engelenhoven Van Fossen Warnstadt
Weidman Weigel Welter Whitead
Wise Witt Mr. Speaker
Siegrist

 

The nays were, 3:
Fallon Kreiman O'Brien

 

Absent or not voting, 2:
Schrader

 


The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to
have passed the House and the title, as amended, was agreed to.

Unfinished Business Calendar

Senate File 2252, a bill for an act eliminating the future repeal of
the school finance formula and providing for periodic legislative
review, with report of committee recommending amendment and
passage, was taken up for consideration.

Grundberg of Polk offered the following amendment H-8344 filed
by the committee on education and moved its adoption:

H-8344

1 Amend Senate File 2252, as passed by the Senate, as
2 follows:
3 1. Page 1, by striking lines 2 through 26 and
4 inserting the following: "amended to read as follows:
5 SEC. 135. Chapter 257, Code 2001 and Code
6 Supplement 2001, is repealed effective July 1, 2001
7 2002."
8 2. Title page, line 1, by striking the words
9 "eliminating the future" and inserting the following:
10 "delaying the".
11 3. Title page, line 2, by striking the words "and
12 providing for periodic legislative review".

The committee amendment H-8344 was adopted.

Grundberg 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?" (S.F. 2252)

The ayes were, 96:
Alons Arnold Barry Baudler
Bell Blodgett Boal Boddicker
Boggess Bradley Brauns Brunkhorst
Bukta Carroll Cataldo Chiodo
Cohoon Connors Cormack Davis
Dix Doderer Dolecheck Dotzler
Drake Drees Eddie Falck
Fallon Foege Ford Garman
Gipp Greimann Greiner Grundberg
Hahn Hansen Heaton Hoffman
Holmes Holveck Horbach Houser
Huseman Huser Jacobs Jager
Jenkins Jochum Johnson Kettering
Klemme Kuhn Larkin Lord
Martin Mascher May Mertz
Metcalf Millage Mundie Murphy
Myers Nelson-Forbes O'Brien Osterhaus
Parmenter Raecker Rants Rayhons
Reynolds Richardson Scherrman Shey
Shoultz Stevens Sukup Sunderbruch
Taylor, D. Taylor, T. Teig Thomas
Thomson Tyrrell Van Engelenhoven Van Fossen
Warnstadt Weidman Weigel Welter
Whitead Wise Witt Mr. Speaker
Siegrist

 

The nays were, 1:
Kreiman

 

Absent or not voting, 3:
Frevert Larson Schrader

 

The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to
have passed the House and the title, as amended, was agreed to.

IMMEDIATE MESSAGES

Rants of Woodbury asked and received unanimous consent that
the following bills be immediately messaged to the Senate: House
File 2538 and Senate File 2252.

Senate File 2113, a bill for an act relating to the licensing of
individuals engaged in the healing art of massage therapy, with
report of committee recommending amendment and passage, was
taken up for consideration.

Jochum of Dubuque offered the following amendment H-8341 filed
by the committee on state government and moved its adoption:

H-8341

1 Amend Senate File 2113, as passed by the Senate, as
2 follows:
3 1. Page 1, by inserting after line 19 the
4 following:

5 "Sec. . Section 152C.1, subsection 3, Code
6 1999, is amended to read as follows:
7 3. "Massage therapy" means performance for
8 compensation of massage, myotherapy, massotherapy,
9 bodywork, bodywork therapy, or therapeutic massage
10 including hydrotherapy, superficial hot and cold
11 applications, vibration and topical applications, or
12 other therapy which involves manipulation of the
13 muscle and connective tissue of the body, excluding
14 osseous tissue, to treat the muscle tonus system for
15 the purpose of enhancing health, muscle relaxation,
16 increasing range of motion, reducing stress, relieving
17 pain, or improving circulation. "Massage therapy"
18 does not include diagnosis or service which requires a
19 license to practice medicine or surgery, osteopathic
20 medicine and surgery, osteopathy, chiropractic,
21 cosmetology arts and sciences, or podiatry, and does
22 not include service performed by athletic trainers,
23 technicians, nurses, occupational therapists, or
24 physical therapists who act under a professional
25 license, certificate, or registration or under the
26 prescription or supervision of a person licensed to
27 practice medicine or surgery or osteopathic medicine
28 and surgery."
29 2. Page 1, line 32, by inserting after the word
30 "offense" the following: ", with the maximum penalty
31 not to exceed ten thousand dollars".
32 3. Page 3, line 19, by striking the word
33 "subsections" and inserting the following:
34 "subsection".
35 4. By renumbering as necessary.

The committee amendment H-8341 was adopted.

Jochum of Dubuque 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?" (S.F. 2113)

The ayes were, 97:
Alons Arnold Barry Baudler
Bell Blodgett Boal Boddicker
Boggess Bradley Brauns Brunkhorst
Bukta Carroll Cataldo Chiodo
Cohoon Connors Cormack Davis
Dix Doderer Dolecheck Dotzler
Drake Drees Eddie Falck
Fallon Foege Ford Garman
Gipp Greimann Greiner Grundberg
Hahn Hansen Heaton Hoffman
Holmes Holveck Horbach Houser
Huseman Huser Jacobs Jager
Jenkins Jochum Johnson Kettering
Klemme Kreiman Kuhn Larkin
Lord Martin Mascher May
Mertz Metcalf Millage Mundie
Murphy Myers Nelson-Forbes O'Brien
Osterhaus Parmenter Raecker Rants
Rayhons Reynolds Richardson Scherrman
Shey Shoultz Stevens Sukup
Sunderbruch Taylor, D. Taylor, T. Teig
Thomas Thomson Tyrrell Van Engelenhoven
Van Fossen Warnstadt Weidman Weigel
Welter Whitead Wise Witt
Mr. Speaker
Siegrist

 

The nays were, none.

Absent or not voting, 3:
Frevert Larson Schrader

 

The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to
have passed the House and the title was agreed to.

SENATE AMENDMENT CONSIDERED

Davis of Wapello called up for consideration House File 2362, a
bill for an act relating to the establishment of a domestic abuse death
review team and providing a penalty, amended by the Senate, and
moved that the House concur in the following Senate amendment
H-8694:

H-8694

1 Amend House File 2362, as amended, passed, and
2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
3 1. Page 3, line 34, by inserting after the word
4 "acted" the following: "reasonably and".
5 2. Page 4, line 2, by inserting before the word
6 "lack" the following: "unreasonableness or".

The motion prevailed and the House concurred in the Senate
amendment H-8694.


Davis of Wapello moved that the bill, as amended by the Senate
and concurred in by the House, 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. 2362)

The ayes were, 97:
Alons Arnold Barry Baudler
Bell Blodgett Boal Boddicker
Boggess Bradley Brauns Brunkhorst
Bukta Carroll Cataldo Chiodo
Cohoon Connors Cormack Davis
Dix Doderer Dolecheck Dotzler
Drake Drees Eddie Falck
Fallon Foege Ford Garman
Gipp Greimann Greiner Grundberg
Hahn Hansen Heaton Hoffman
Holmes Holveck Horbach Houser
Huseman Huser Jacobs Jager
Jenkins Jochum Johnson Kettering
Klemme Kreiman Kuhn Larkin
Lord Martin Mascher May
Mertz Metcalf Millage Mundie
Murphy Myers Nelson-Forbes O'Brien
Osterhaus Parmenter Raecker Rants
Rayhons Reynolds Richardson Scherrman
Shey Shoultz Stevens Sukup
Sunderbruch Taylor, D. Taylor, T. Teig
Thomas Thomson Tyrrell Van Engelenhoven
Van Fossen Warnstadt Weidman Weigel
Welter Whitead Wise Witt
Mr. Speaker
Siegrist

 

The nays were, none.

Absent or not voting, 3:
Frevert Larson Schrader

 

The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to
have passed the House and the title was agreed to.


Unfinished Business Calendar

House File 2373, a bill for an act relating to the issuance of
closing protection letters by the Iowa finance authority, was taken up
for consideration.

Hoffman of Crawford offered the following amendment H-8718
filed by him from the floor and moved its adoption:

H-8718

1 Amend House File 2373 as follows:
2 1. Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
3 following:
4 "Section 1. Section 7C.5, Code 1999, is amended to
5 read as follows:
6 7C.5 FORMULA FOR ALLOCATION.
7 1. Except as provided in subsection 2 and in
8 section 7C.4A, subsections 1 through 5, the state
9 ceiling shall be allocated among all political
10 subdivisions on a statewide basis on the basis of the
11 chronological orders of receipt by the governor's
12 designee of the applications described in section 7C.6
13 with respect to a definitive issue of bonds, as
14 determined by the day, hour, and minute time-stamped
15 on the application immediately upon receipt by the
16 governor's designee. However, for the period January
17 1 through June 30 of each year, allocations to bonds
18 for which an amount of the state ceiling has been
19 reserved pursuant to section 7C.4A, subsection 6,
20 shall be made to the political subdivisions submitting
21 the applications first from the reserved amount until
22 the reserved amount has been fully allocated and then
23 from the amount specified in section 7C.4A, subsection
24 7.
25 2. a. Applications for the state ceiling
26 allocation under section 7C.4A, subsection 5, shall be
27 competitively rated by the governor's designee based
28 on the following criteria:
29 (1) The total number of jobs created.
30 (2) The total number of jobs to be created which
31 meet the wage threshold requirements of subparagraph
32 (3).
33 (3) The jobs to be created shall have a starting
34 wage of the lowest of any of the following:
35 (a) Ninety percent of the average county wage.
36 (b) Ninety percent of the average regional wage.
37 (c) Nine dollars and fifty cents adjusted annually
38 by calculating the percent increase or decrease in the
39 average Iowa hourly earnings level for all production

40 and nonproduction workers in the private sector from
41 the month of June of the previous year to June of the
42 current year.
43 (4) The provision and payment of at least eighty
44 percent of the cost of a standard medical and dental
45 plan for all full-time employees working at the
46 project for which assistance has been requested.
47 (5) The impact of the applicant's proposed project
48 on other businesses in competition with the applicant.
49 The governor's designee shall make a good faith effort
50 to prohibit the displacement of employees of existing

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1 businesses through an allocation of the state ceiling.
2 (6) The issuance to the applicant of all known
3 required environmental permits and the applicant's
4 compliance with all environmental regulations.
5 (7) The economic impact of the applicant's
6 proposed project on the state and the region of the
7 state in which the applicant will be locating.
8 b. Of the applications for the state ceiling
9 allocation under section 7C.4A, subsection 5, the
10 governor's designee shall place the highest rated
11 applications into one of the two drawings provided in
12 paragraph "c", subparagraph (1), based on the
13 population of the political subdivision where the
14 proposed project will be located. Upon request, the
15 governor's designee shall make available a written
16 rationale detailing the reasons used for selecting the
17 particular applicants chosen for the drawings
18 conducted pursuant to paragraph "c", subparagraph (1).
19 c. (1) On or before June 30 of each year, the
20 state ceiling allocated under section 7C.4A,
21 subsection 5, shall be allocated based on one drawing
22 conducted by the governor's designee for each of the
23 following groups:
24 (a) Applicants eligible pursuant to paragraph "b"
25 whose proposed project would be located in a political
26 subdivision with a population of twenty thousand or
27 less according to the most recent census.
28 (b) Applicants eligible pursuant to paragraph "b"
29 whose proposed project would be located in a political
30 subdivision with a population over twenty thousand.
31 (2) One-half of the state ceiling allocated under
32 section 7C.4A, subsection 5, shall be reserved for the
33 applicants in the drawing conducted pursuant to
34 subparagraph (1), subparagraph subdivision (a). The
35 remaining one-half of the state ceiling allocated
36 under section 7C.4A, subsection 5, shall be reserved
37 for the applicants in the drawing conducted pursuant
38 to subparagraph (1), subparagraph subdivision (b).

39 (3) Any remaining portion of the state ceiling
40 allocated under section 7C.4A, subsection 5, which has
41 not been awarded after the drawings under paragraph
42 "c" shall become available to any applicant as
43 determined by the governor's designee.
44 d. An applicant shall not be allocated a portion
45 of the state ceiling under this subsection more than
46 once during the same calendar year. An applicant
47 shall not be allocated a portion of the state ceiling
48 under this subsection if the applicant has a majority
49 owner who is a majority owner of another applicant who
50 has been allocated a portion of the state ceiling

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1 under this subsection during the same calendar year."
2 2. Title page, by striking lines 1 and 2 and
3 inserting the following: "An Act relating to the Iowa
4 finance authority by providing for the issuance of
5 closing protection letters and providing for the
6 allocation of the state ceiling of federally tax-
7 exempt private activity bonds."
8 3. By renumbering as necessary.

Amendment H-8718 was adopted.

Hoffman of Crawford asked and received unanimous consent to
withdraw amendment H-8212 filed by him on March 7, 2000.

Hoffman of Crawford 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. 2373)

The ayes were, 95:
Alons Arnold Barry Baudler
Bell Blodgett Boal Boddicker
Boggess Brauns Brunkhorst Bukta
Carroll Chiodo Cohoon Connors
Cormack Davis Dix Doderer
Dolecheck Dotzler Drake Drees
Eddie Falck Fallon Foege
Ford Garman Gipp Greimann
Greiner Grundberg Hahn Hansen
Heaton Hoffman Holmes Holveck
Horbach Houser Huseman Huser
Jacobs Jager Jenkins Jochum
Johnson Kettering Klemme Kreiman
Kuhn Larkin Lord Martin
Mascher May Mertz Metcalf
Millage Mundie Murphy Myers
Nelson-Forbes O'Brien Osterhaus Parmenter
Raecker Rants Rayhons Reynolds
Richardson Scherrman Shey Shoultz
Stevens Sukup Sunderbruch Taylor, D.
Taylor, T. Teig Thomas Thomson
Tyrrell Van Engelenhoven Van Fossen Warnstadt
Weidman Weigel Welter Whitead
Wise Witt Mr. Speaker
Siegrist

 

The nays were, none.

Absent or not voting, 5:
Bradley Cataldo Frevert Larson
Schrader

 

The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to
have passed the House and the title, as amended, was agreed to.

IMMEDIATE MESSAGES

Rants of Woodbury asked and received unanimous consent that
the following bills be immediately messaged to the Senate: House
Files 2362, 2373 and Senate File 2113.

The House stood at ease at 10:00 a.m., until the fall of the gavel.

The House resumed session at 10:06 a.m., Speaker Siegrist in the
chair.

Appropriations Calendar

Senate File 2302, a bill for an act relating to programs and public
health issues under the purview of the Iowa department of public
health and the appropriation of certain fees to the department, with
report of committee recommending amendment and passage, was
taken up for consideration.

Eddie of Buena Vista in the chair at 10:08 a.m.


Nelson-Forbes of Marshall offered the following amendment
H-8479 filed by the committee on appropriations and moved its
adoption:

H-8479

1 Amend Senate File 2302, as amended, passed, and
2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
3 1. Page 5, by striking lines 3 through 13.
4 2. Page 9, by striking lines 18 through 31 and
5 inserting the following:
6 "Sec. . Section 331.605, subsection 6, Code
7 Supplement 1999, is amended to read as follows:
8 6. For filing an application for the license to
9 marry, thirty dollars which includes payment for one
10 certified copy of the original certificate of
11 marriage, to be issued following filing of the
12 original certificate of marriage. For issuing an
13 application for an order of the district court
14 authorizing the validation of a license to marry
15 before the expiration of three days from the date of
16 issuance of the license, five dollars. The district
17 court shall authorize the early validation of a
18 marriage license without the payment of any fees
19 imposed in this subsection upon showing that the
20 applicant is unable to pay the fees."
21 3. Page 10, by striking line 4 and inserting the
22 following: "fifteen days to the county registrar, who
23 issued the".
24 4. Page 10, by striking lines 8 through 14, and
25 inserting the following:
26 "Following receipt of the original certificate of
27 marriage pursuant to section 144.36, the county
28 registrar shall issue a certified copy of the original
29 certificate of marriage to the parties to the
30 marriage."
31 5. By renumbering as necessary.

The committee amendment H-8479 was adopted.

Davis of Wapello asked and received unanimous consent to
withdraw amendment H-8518 filed by Nelson-Forbes of Marshall, et
al., on March 22, 2000.

Blodgett of Cerro Gordo asked and received unanimous consent to
withdraw amendment H-8235 filed by him on March 7, 2000.


Blodgett of Cerro Gordo offered the following amendment H-8236
filed by him and moved its adoption:

H-8236

1 Amend Senate File 2302, as amended, passed, and
2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
3 1. Page 2, by striking line 12, and inserting the
4 following: "a woman may breast-feed the".

Amendment H-8236 was adopted.

Ford of Polk offered amendment H-8719 filed by him from the floor
as follows:

H-8719

1 Amend Senate File 2302, as amended, passed, and
2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
3 1. Page 2, by inserting after line 14 the
4 following:
5 "Sec. . Section 135.105B, Code 1999, is amended
6 to read as follows:
7 135.105B VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES - HEALTH AND
8 ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES MODEL LEAD HAZARD REMEDIATION
9 REQUIREMENTS - CONFIRMED CASES OF LEAD POISONING.
10 1. The department may develop voluntary guidelines
11 which may be used to develop and administer local
12 programs shall establish by rule model lead hazard
13 remediation requirements for residential properties to
14 address the health and environmental needs of children
15 who are confirmed as lead poisoned. The purpose of
16 the requirements shall be to prevent ongoing and
17 future exposure to lead-based paint hazards. Local
18 boards of health may adopt and enforce the
19 requirements or may adopt the requirements and request
20 that the requirements be enforced by the state.
21 However, local boards of health shall not be required
22 to adopt and enforce the requirements. The state may
23 not enforce the requirements unless the requirements
24 have been adopted by the local board of health and the
25 local board of health has requested that the state
26 enforce the requirements.
27 2. The voluntary guidelines model lead hazard
28 remediation requirements may be based upon existing
29 local ordinances that address the medical case
30 management of children's health needs and the
31 mitigation of the environmental factors which
32 contributed to the lead poisoning.
33 3. Following development of the voluntary

34 guidelines, cities or counties may elect to utilize
35 the guidelines in developing and administering local
36 programs through city or county health departments on
37 a city, county, or multicounty basis or may request
38 that the state develop and administer the local
39 program. However, cities and counties are not
40 required to develop and administer local programs
41 based upon the guidelines."
42 2. By renumbering as necessary.

Grundberg of Polk rose on a point of order that amendment
H-8719 was not germane.

The Speaker ruled the point well taken and amendment H-8719
not germane.

The House stood at ease at 10:33 a.m., until the fall of the gavel.

The House resumed session at 11:26 a.m., Speaker Siegrist in the
chair.

Rants of Woodbury asked and received unanimous consent that
Senate File 2302 be deferred and that the bill retain its place on the
calendar.

On motion by Rants of Woodbury, the House was recessed at 11:28
a.m., until 1:30 p.m.

AFTERNOON SESSION

The House reconvened at 2:22 p.m., Speaker Siegrist in the chair.

CONSIDERATION OF BILLS
Unfinished Business Calendar

Senate File 2274, a bill for an act declaring null and void
gubernatorial executive orders relating to equal opportunity and
affirmative action in state employment and uniform procedures for
the waiver of administrative rules and providing an effective date,
with report of committee recommending passage, was taken up for
consideration.

The House stood at ease at 2:26 p.m., until the fall of the gavel.

The House resumed session at 3:45 p.m., Speaker Siegrist in the
chair.

QUORUM CALL

A non-record roll call was requested to determine that a quorum
was present. The vote revealed sixty-four members present, thirty-six
absent.

The House resumed consideration of Senate File 2274.

Carroll of Poweshiek in the chair at 3:58 p.m.

Speaker Siegrist in the chair at 4:47 p.m.

Sukup of Franklin 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?" (S.F. 2274)

The ayes were, 55:
Alons Arnold Barry Baudler
Blodgett Boal Boddicker Boggess
Bradley Brauns Brunkhorst Carroll
Cormack Dix Dolecheck Drake
Eddie Garman Gipp Greiner
Hahn Hansen Heaton Hoffman
Holmes Horbach Houser Huseman
Jacobs Jager Jenkins Johnson
Kettering Klemme Kreiman Larson
Lord Martin Metcalf Millage
Nelson-Forbes Raecker Rants Rayhons
Shey Sukup Sunderbruch Teig
Thomson Tyrrell Van Engelenhoven Van Fossen
Weidman Welter Mr. Speaker
Siegrist

 

The nays were, 43:
Bell Bukta Cataldo Chiodo
Cohoon Connors Davis Doderer
Dotzler Drees Falck Fallon
Foege Ford Greimann Grundberg
Holveck Huser Jochum Kuhn
Larkin Mascher May Mertz
Mundie Murphy Myers O'Brien
Osterhaus Parmenter Reynolds Richardson
Scherrman Shoultz Stevens Taylor, D.
Taylor, T. Thomas Warnstadt Weigel
Whitead Wise Witt

 

Absent or not voting, 2:
Frevert Schrader

 

The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to
have passed the House and the title was agreed to.

IMMEDIATE MESSAGE

Rants of Woodbury asked and received unanimous consent that
Senate File 2274 be immediately messaged to the Senate.

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
April 4, 2000, amended and passed the following bill in which the concurrence of the
House is asked:

House File 475, a bill for an act concerning nonsubstantive gender-related
provisions in the Code.

Also: That the Senate has on April 4, 2000, passed the following bill in which the
concurrence of the Senate was asked:

House File 2170, a bill for an act regarding application of the margin of error for
chemical test evidence used in operating while intoxicated prosecutions.

Also: That the Senate has on April 4, 2000, amended and passed the following bill
in which the concurrence of the House is asked:

House File 2429, a bill for an act relating to the publication and recordkeeping
duties of county officers by providing for the maintenance of permanent records by
electronic means and the determination of publication rates.

Also: That the Senate has on April 4, 2000, passed the following bill in which the
concurrence of the Senate was asked:

House File 2542, a bill for an act relating to distributions made to and income from
missing property of certain persecuted victims of World War II and their heirs,
including effective and retroactive applicability dates.


Also: That the Senate has on April 4, 2000, adopted the following resolution in
which the concurrence of the Senate was asked:

House Concurrent Resolution 106, a concurrent resolution relating to support of the
State of Minnesota's lawsuit against the federal government and the United States
Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding disparate funding under the
federal Medicare program.

Also: That the Senate has on April 4, 2000, amended the House amendment,
concurred in the House amendment as amended, and passed the following bill in which
the concurrence of the House is asked:

Senate File 2371, a bill for an act relating to the establishment of a water quality
initiative program by the department of agriculture and land stewardship and the
department of natural resources, defining and providing for the use of credible data for
quality control and assurance procedures, and providing for other properly related
matters, and providing an applicability date.

MICHAEL E. MARSHALL, Secretary

EXPLANATION OF VOTE

I was necessarily absent from the House chamber on April 3, 2000.
Had I been present, I would have voted "aye" on House File 2550 and
Senate Files 421, 2146, 2249, 2254, 2294, 2307, 2342, 2416, 2418 and
2420.

RAECKER of Polk

BILLS ENROLLED, SIGNED AND SENT TO GOVERNOR

The Chief Clerk of the House submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker: The Chief Clerk of the House respectfully reports that the following
bills have been examined and found correctly enrolled, signed by the Speaker of the
House and the President of the Senate, and presented to the Governor for his approval
on this 4th day of April, 2000: House Files 2136, 2172, 2321, 2512 and 2525.

ELIZABETH A. ISAACSON
Chief Clerk of the House

Report adopted.


PRESENTATION OF VISITORS

The Speaker announced that the following visitors were present in
the House chamber:

Forty seventh grade students from Aurelia Community School,
Aurelia, accompanied by their teachers, Mr. Ireland, Mr. Radke and
Mr. Damars. By Huseman of Cherokee.

Second grade students from Irving Elementary School, Indianola,
accompanied by Miss Cullen. By Richardson of Warren.

Forty elementary school students from Polk Elementary School,
Cedar Rapids, accompanied by Ms. Wallace and Ms. Young. By Shey
of Linn.

COMMUNICATION RECEIVED

The following communication was received and filed in the office of
the Chief Clerk:

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Healthy and Well Kids in Iowa Program

The January 2000 Second Baseline Report, pursuant to Chapter 514I.4, Code of
Iowa.

CERTIFICATES OF RECOGNITION

MR. SPEAKER: The Chief Clerk of the House respectfully reports
that certificates of recognition have been issued as follows.

ELIZABETH A. ISAACSON
Chief Clerk of the House

2000\730 Margaret and Orris Linn, Keosauqua - For celebrating their 50th
wedding anniversary.

2000\731 Elousie and Rex Syfert, Keosauqua - For celebrating their 50th wedding
anniversary.

2000\732 Jeffrey Paul Skalberg, Red Oak - For attaining the rank of Eagle
Scout, the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America.

2000\733 Arvada Beck, Milford - For celebrating her 89th birthday.

2000\734 Lorene Meek, Tama - For celebrating her 80th birthday.

2000\735 Pauline Schminke, Vinton - For celebrating her 80th birthday.

2000\736 Nina Smith, Vinton - For celebrating her 90th birthday.

2000\737 Greg Anderson, Hull - For being named to the Class 1-A Boys'
Basketball All Tournament Team.

2000\738 Lola and Walter Mathine, Estherville - For celebrating their 50th
wedding anniversary.

2000\739 Marie Gorman, Fairfield - For celebrating her 90th birthday.

2000\740 Lois and Charles Sorenson, Elkhart - For celebrating their 50th
wedding anniversary.

2000\741 Monna and Robert Muehlenthaler, Ankeny - For celebrating their 50th
wedding anniversary.

2000\742 Fannie Davis, Corydon - For celebrating her 104th birthday.

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Senate File 2419

Ways and Means: Blodgett, Chair; Larson and Osterhaus.

Senate File 2427

Ways and Means: Drake, Chair; Richardson and Teig.

RESOLUTIONS FILED

HCR 117, by Brauns and Bradley, a concurrent resolution
establishing a special commission to study and make recom-
mendations concerning the impact of current and future state
replacement funds paid to local governments to mitigate the effects of
the elimination of the property tax on industrial machinery,
equipment, and computers.

Laid over under Rule 25.

HCR 118, by Thomas and Heaton, a concurrent resolution requesting
the office of the attorney general to establish an operating while
intoxicated (OWI) task force to review the clarity, complexity, and
functionality of current operating while intoxicated Code provisions
and to make recommendations to the general assembly.

Laid over under Rule 25.

HR 117, by Raecker, Ford, Siegrist, Rants, Schrader, Alons, Arnold,
Barry, Baudler, Blodgett, Boal, Boddicker, Boggess, Bradley, Brauns,
Brunkhorst, Carroll, Cormack, Davis, Dix, Dolecheck, Drake, Eddie,
Garman, Gipp, Greiner, Grundberg, Hahn, Hansen, Heaton,
Hoffman, Holmes, Horbach, Houser, Huseman, Jacobs, Jager,
Jenkins, Johnson, Kettering, Klemme, Larson, Lord, Martin, Metcalf,
Millage, Nelson-Forbes, Rayhons, Shey, Sukup, Sunderbruch, Teig,
Thomson, Tyrrell, Van Engelenhoven, Van Fossen, Weidman, Welter,
Bell, Bukta, Cataldo, Chiodo, Cohoon, Connors, Doderer, Dotzler,
Drees, Falck, Fallon, Foege, Greimann, Holveck, Huser, Jochum,
Kreiman, Kuhn, Larkin, Mascher, May, Mertz, Mundie, Murphy,
Myers, O'Brien, Osterhaus, Parmenter, Reynolds, Richardson,
Scherrman, Shoultz, Stevens, D. Taylor, T. Taylor, Thomas,
Warnstadt, Weigel, Whitead, Wise and Witt, a resolution congrat-
ulating the Drake Women's Basketball Team.

Laid over under Rule 25.

AMENDMENTS FILED

H-8714 H.F. 2533 Senate Amendment
H-8715 H.F. 2463 Senate Amendment
H-8716 H.F. 2198 Senate Amendment
H-8717 S.F. 2430 Parmenter of Story
H-8720 S.F. 2329 Blodgett of Cerro Gordo
Welter of Jones
Drees of Carroll
T. Taylor of Linn
H-8721 S.F. 2302 Nelson-Forbes of Marshall
H-8722 S.F. 2428 Shoultz of Black Hawk
H-8723 S.F. 2302 Osterhaus of Jackson
H-8724 S.F. 2430 Jochum of Dubuque
H-8725 S.F. 441 Carroll of Poweshiek
Grundberg of Polk
H-8726 H.F. 2530 Bradley of Clinton
H-8727 S.F. 2371 Senate Amendment
H-8728 H.F. 2429 Senate Amendment
H-8729 H.F. 475 Senate Amendment


On motion by Rants of Woodbury the House adjourned at 5:12
p.m., until 8:45 a.m., Wednesday, April 5, 2000.


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