House Journal: Wednesday, February 5, 2003
JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE
Twenty-fourth Calendar Day - Seventeenth Session Day
Hall of the House of Representatives
Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, February 5, 2003
The House met pursuant to adjournment at 8:50 a.m., Speaker
Rants in the chair.
Prayer was offered by Reverend Corey Miller, pastor of the Church
of Christ, Carroll. He was the guest of Representative Rod Roberts of
Carroll County.
The Journal of Tuesday, February 4, 2003 was approved.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
House File 119, by Petersen, Ford, D. Olson, Jochum, Wendt,
Murphy, Stevens, Dandekar, Fallon, T. Taylor, Myers, Gaskill,
McCarthy, Oldson, Heddens, Greimann, Frevert, Connors, and D.
Taylor, a bill for an act providing for civil rights enforcement
concerning employment rights of persons exercising their rights
under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.
Read first time and referred to committee on commerce,
regulation and labor.
House File 120, by Elgin, a bill for an act relating to the exclusion
of certain nonprofit transitional housing from forcible entry and
detainer actions and remedies.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
House File 121, by Heaton, a bill for an act requiring an
assessment of eligibility for certain third-party payor funding of
health care facility services by licensed health care facilities.
Read first time and referred to committee on human resources.
House File 122, by Huser, a bill for an act creating a presumption
of owner consent when the child of an owner operates the owner's
motor vehicle.
Read first time and referred to committee on transportation.
House File 123, by Mertz, a bill for an act relating to the
establishment of a centralized reporting and education program for
sepsis.
Read first time and referred to committee on human resources.
House File 124, by Alons, a bill for an act providing for an
inflation factor adjustment to be added to authorized community
college levies, and providing an applicability date provision.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 125, by Rayhons, a bill for an act relating to county
issuance of driver's licenses and nonoperator's identification cards by
increasing the amount of the license fee retained by the county.
Read first time and referred to committee on transportation.
House File 126, by Alons, Van Engelenhoven, and Tymeson, a bill
for an act providing for the confidentiality of certain veterans' records
maintained by county recorders.
Read first time and referred to committee on local government.
House File 127, by Bell, a bill for an act requiring certain
representation in the membership of governance boards of programs
for decategorization of child welfare funding.
Read first time and referred to committee on human resources.
House File 128, by Connors, a bill for an act relating to
counseling for runaway children.
Read first time and referred to committee on human resources.
House File 129, by Jacobs, a bill for an act requiring a credit
reporting agency to provide a credit report to a consumer each year
without charge.
Read first time and referred to committee on commerce,
regulation and labor.
House File 130, by Connors, a bill for an act relating to the
voluntary admission and release of persons suffering from dementia
or a dementia-related illness to inpatient psychiatric treatment.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
EXPLANATIONS OF VOTE
I was necessarily absent from the House chamber on Monday,
February 3, 2003. Had I been present, I would have voted "aye" on
House File 66.
FREVERT of Palo Alto
I was necessarily absent from the House chamber on Monday,
February 3, 2003. Had I been present, I would have voted "aye" on
House File 66.
STEVENS of Dickinson
I was necessarily absent from the House chamber on Monday,
February 3, 2003. Had I been present, I would have voted "aye" on
House File 66.
D. TAYLOR of Linn
COMMUNICATION RECEIVED
The following communication was received and filed in the office of
the Chief Clerk:
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Annual accounting of money received and expended for the Hazardous Waste
Remedial Fund and disposal sites, pursuant to Chapters 455B.425 and 455B.427, Code
of Iowa.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
House File 67
Human Resources: Heaton, Chair; Carroll and Foege.
House File 69
Human Resources: Heaton, Chair; Carroll and Foege.
House File 111
Human Resources: Roberts, Chair; Smith and Tymeson.
House File 116
Judiciary: Baudler, Chair; Dennis and Lensing.
HOUSE STUDY BILL SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
House Study Bill 64
Economic Growth: Lukan, Chair; Lalk and Swaim.
House Study Bill 65
Natural Resources: J.R. Van Fossen, Chair; Boddicker, Granzow, Mertz and Whitaker.
House Study Bill 66
Natural Resources: Arnold, Chair; Bell and Freeman.
House Study Bill 67
Natural Resources: Lukan, Chair; Baudler and Davitt.
House Study Bill 68
Natural Resources: Granzow, Chair; Dix and McCarthy.
House Study Bill 69
Natural Resources: Rasmussen, Chair; Rayhons and D. Taylor.
House Study Bill 70
Local Government: Schickel, Chair; Connors and Maddox.
House Study Bill 71
Transportation: Klemme, Chair; Arnold, Cohoon, Huser and Van Engelenhoven.
House Study Bill 72
Judiciary: Dennis, Chair; Heaton and Winckler.
House Study Bill 73
Commerce, Regulation and Labor: Sands, Chair; Quirk and Watts.
House Study Bill 74
Judiciary: Maddox, Chair; Dennis and Swaim.
House Study Bill 75
Judiciary: Heaton, Chair; Hutter and Lensing.
House Study Bill 76
Judiciary: Eichhorn, Chair; Baudler and Reasoner.
House Study Bill 77
State Government: J. Drake, Chair; Connors, Elgin, Jones and Oldson.
House Study Bill 78
Judiciary: Boal, Chair; Reasoner and Schickel.
HOUSE STUDY BILL COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
H.S.B. 79 Environmental Protection
Relating to construction requirements for disposal systems.
H.S.B. 80 Public Safety
Relating to the manufacture, delivery, possession with the intent to
manufacture or deliver of conspiring to manufacture, deliver, or
possess with the intent to manufacture or deliver flunitrazepam, and
providing a penalty.
H.S.B. 81 Public Safety
Relating to possession of an alcoholic beverage by a person under
legal age.
H.S.B. 82 Public Safety
Relating to using an emergency exit to facilitate a theft, and
providing a penalty.
H.S.B. 83 Economic Growth
Creating a university-based research utilization program, providing
tax credits, and making appropriations.
H.S.B. 84 Economic Growth
Relating to the enterprise zone program and including effective date
provisions.
H.S.B. 85 Judiciary
Creating a private cause of action for certain consumer fraud
violations.
H.S.B. 86 Judiciary
Creating the criminal offense of intellectual property counterfeiting,
and providing a penalty.
H.S.B. 87 Public Safety
Relating to criminal law and procedure, including the criminal
offenses of arson, communications by an arrested person, and
harassment, and the sex offender registry.
H.S.B. 88 Public Safety
Relating to the state fire marshal's office of the department of public
safety concerning the publication of administrative rule notices and
explosives licensing and making criminal penalties applicable.
H.S.B. 89 Public Safety
Relating to the withdrawal of blood without a warrant from a person
under arrest for an operating-while-intoxicated offense when the
arrest results from a traffic accident resulting in death or personal
injury reasonably likely to cause death.
H.S.B. 90 Public Safety
Relating to conducting searches of persons on probation or parole and
providing information to local law enforcement agencies and the state
department of transportation.
H.S.B. 91 Public Safety
Relating to intelligence data and intelligence assessment
dissemination to an agency, organization, or person.
H.S.B. 92 Public Safety
Relating to the criminal penalties for an assault on members of
certain occupations.
H.S.B. 93 Public Safety
Expanding the criminal offense of possessing contraband in
correctional institutions to include possessing contraband in a secure
facility for the detention or custody of juveniles, a detention facility,
or a jail.
H.S.B. 94 Public Safety
Relating to child endangerment offenses resulting in the death of a
child or minor and providing a penalty.
H.S.B. 95 Public Safety
Requiring the department of corrections to pay vehicle depreciation
expenses billed by the state fleet administrator.
H.S.B. 96 Public Safety
Establishing a criminalistics laboratory surcharge and creating a
criminalistics laboratory fund, making an appropriation of surcharge
moneys, and making related changes.
H.S.B. 97 Public Safety
Relating to enforcement of motor vehicle law provisions and making
penalties applicable.
H.S.B. 98 Public Safety
Relating to the criminal offense of sexual exploitation of a minor.
H.S.B. 99 Agriculture
Relating to the Iowa agricultural development authority, by providing
for administration, programs, and reporting.
H.S.B. 100 Transportation
Increasing the speed limit for vehicular traffic on interstate
highways.
H.S.B. 101 Education
Relating to education, including development of quality education
plans designed to facilitate rural school partnership opportunities,
promotion of sharing of administrative services by school districts,
and implementation of a pilot project involving an alternative
teaching method for designated special education students, and
providing an effective date.
RESOLUTIONS FILED
HR 9, by Bell, Eichhorn and Gipp, a resolution supporting a proposal
to invite the Republic of China (Taiwan) to participate in the
upcoming meeting of the World Health Assembly as an observer.
Laid over under Rule 25.
HR 10, by Alons, Boal, Rayhons, De Boef, Freeman, Baudler,
Maddox, Tymeson, Greiner, Heaton, Chambers, Eichhorn, Hoffman,
Raecker, J.K. Van Fossen, Dix, Huseman, Tjepkes, Boggess, Elgin,
Paulsen, Lalk, Lukan, Jenkins, Jacobs, Granzow, D. Hanson,
Rasmussen, Schickel, Upmeyer, Dolecheck, Hahn, J.R. Van Fossen,
Hutter, S. Olson, Sands, Dennis, Drake, Klemme, Kramer,
Kurtenbach and Arnold, a resolution to recognize February 6 as
Ronald Reagan Day in the State of Iowa.
Laid over under Rule 25.
HR 11, by Smith, Horbach, Winckler, Berry, Davitt, Huseman,
Shoultz, Miller, Connors, Jones, Bell, Reasoner, Oldson, Heddens,
Struyk, Frevert, Ford, D. Olson, Dandekar, Dennis, Granzow,
Hanson, Swaim, Kuhn, Greiner, Hogg, Jochum, Foege, Murphy, Boal,
Lensing, Osterhaus, Hoffman, Fallon, Watts, De Boef, Van
Engelenhoven, Boggess, Hutter, Wendt, Myers, Quirk, T. Taylor,
Thomas, Lykam, Maddox, Boddicker, Chambers, Tymeson, Whitaker,
Alons, Lalk, Gaskill, Arnold, Rasmussen, D. Taylor, Bukta, Klemme,
Gipp, Jacobs, Tjepkes, Wise, Stevens, Petersen, Dolecheck, Roberts,
Eichhorn and Huser, a resolution to honor the Meskwaki Code
Talkers who served in the United States Armed Forces in North
Africa during World War II.
Laid over under Rule 25.
AMENDMENTS FILED
H-1008 H.F. 65 Shoultz of Black Hawk
H-1009 H.F. 65 Horbach of Tama
H-1010 H.F. 65 Baudler of Adair
H-1011 H.F. 65 Horbach of Tama
On motion by Gipp of Winneshiek the House adjourned at 8:58
a.m., until 8:45 a.m., Thursday, February 6, 2003.
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