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House Amendment 1065

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  1  1    Amend House File 481 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
  1  3 following:
  1  4    "Section 1.  Section 232.2, subsection 12, Code
  1  5 2003, is amended by adding the following new
  1  6 paragraph:
  1  7    NEW PARAGRAPH.  d.  The violation of section 299.6
  1  8 by a child twelve years of age or older.
  1  9    Sec.    .  Section 232.22, subsection 8, Code 2003,
  1 10 is amended to read as follows:
  1 11    8.  Notwithstanding any other provision of the Code
  1 12 to the contrary, a child shall not be placed in
  1 13 detention for a violation of section 123.47 or 299.6,
  1 14 or for failure to comply with a dispositional order
  1 15 which provides for performance of community service
  1 16 for a violation of section 123.47 or 299.6."
  1 17    #2.  Page 1, by inserting after line 15 the
  1 18 following:
  1 19    "Sec.    .  Section 299.5A, unnumbered paragraph 4,
  1 20 Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1 21    The school district shall be responsible for
  1 22 monitoring any agreements arrived at through
  1 23 mediation.  If a parent, guardian, or legal or actual
  1 24 custodian, or the child if the child is twelve years
  1 25 of age or older, refuses to engage in mediation or
  1 26 violates a term of the agreement, the matter shall be
  1 27 rereferred to the county attorney for prosecution
  1 28 under section 299.6.  The county attorney's office or
  1 29 the mediation service shall require the parent,
  1 30 guardian, or legal or actual custodian and the school
  1 31 to pay a fee to help defray the administrative cost of
  1 32 mediation services.  The county attorney's office or
  1 33 the mediation service shall establish a sliding scale
  1 34 of fees to be charged parents, guardians, and legal or
  1 35 actual custodians based upon ability to pay.  A
  1 36 parent, guardian, or legal or actual custodian shall
  1 37 not be denied the services of a mediator solely
  1 38 because of inability to pay the fee.
  1 39    Sec.    .  Section 299.6, unnumbered paragraph 1,
  1 40 Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1 41    Any person who violates a mediation agreement under
  1 42 section 299.5A, who is referred for prosecution under
  1 43 section 299.5A and is convicted of a violation of any
  1 44 of the provisions of sections 299.1 through 299.5, who
  1 45 violates any of the provisions of sections 299.1
  1 46 through 299.5, or who refuses to participate in
  1 47 mediation under section 299.5A, for a first offense,
  1 48 is guilty of a simple misdemeanor.  If a child twelve
  1 49 years of age or older violates a mediation agreement
  1 50 under section 299.5A, or refuses to participate in
  2  1 mediation under section 299.5A, the child commits a
  2  2 delinquent act." 
  2  3 
  2  4 
  2  5                               
  2  6 MASCHER of Johnson
  2  7 HF 481.301 80
  2  8 kh/cf 
     

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