House Journal: Page 1255: Tuesday, April 9, 2002
6 termination of a pregnancy, including but not limited
7 to usage of mifepristone or RU-486, offered or
8 administered by the student health center.
9 b. University hospitals
10 For salaries, support, maintenance, equipment, and
11 miscellaneous purposes and for medical and surgical
12 treatment of indigent patients as provided in chapter
13 255, for medical education, and for not more than the
14 following full-time equivalent positions:
15 $ 30,466,492
16 FTEs 5,485.01
17 The university of Iowa hospitals and clinics shall,
18 within the context of chapter 255 and when medically
19 appropriate, make reasonable efforts to extend the
20 university of Iowa hospitals and clinics' use of home
21 telemedicine and other technologies to reduce the
22 frequency of visits to the hospital required by
23 indigent patients. The university of Iowa hospitals
24 and clinics shall submit a report to the general
25 assembly and the legislative fiscal bureau by January
26 15, 2003, describing its use of these technologies to
27 accomplish this purpose.
28 The university of Iowa hospitals and clinics shall
29 submit quarterly a report regarding the portion of the
30 appropriation in this lettered paragraph expended on
31 medical education. The report shall be submitted in a
32 format jointly developed by the university of Iowa
33 hospitals and clinics, the legislative fiscal bureau,
34 and the department of management, and shall delineate
35 the expenditures and purposes of the funds.
36 Funds appropriated in this lettered paragraph shall
37 not be used to perform abortions except medically
38 necessary abortions, and shall not be used to operate
39 the early termination of pregnancy clinic except for
40 the performance of medically necessary abortions. For
41 the purpose of this lettered paragraph, an abortion is
42 the purposeful interruption of pregnancy with the
43 intention other than to produce a live-born infant or
44 to remove a dead fetus, and a medically necessary
45 abortion is one performed under one of the following
46 conditions:
47 (1) The attending physician certifies that
48 continuing the pregnancy would endanger the life of
49 the pregnant woman.
50 (2) The attending physician certifies that the
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1 fetus is physically deformed, mentally deficient, or
2 afflicted with a congenital illness.
3 (3) The pregnancy is the result of a rape which is
4 reported within 45 days of the incident to a law
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