House Journal: Friday, February 21, 2003
JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE
Fortieth Calendar Day - Twenty-ninth Session Day
Hall of the House of Representatives
Des Moines, Iowa, Friday, February 21, 2003
The House met pursuant to adjournment at 8:56 a.m., Lukan of
Dubuque in the chair.
Prayer was offered by the Honorable Steve Lukan, state
representative from Dubuque County.
The Journal of Thursday, February 20, 2003 was approved.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
House File 257, by Huseman and Freeman, a bill for an act
relating to recycling waste oil filters, establishing fees, and making
an appropriation.
Read first time and referred to committee on natural resources.
House File 258, by Fallon and Carroll, a bill for an act relating to
state land management and planning and local land management
and planning for certain counties and cities and providing effective
dates.
Read first time and referred to committee on local government.
House File 259, by committee on judiciary, a bill for an act
relating to interest on weekly workers' compensation payments.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 260, by McCarthy, Baudler, J. R. Van Fossen, and
Lukan, a bill for an act relating to an informal adjustment of a
complaint in juvenile court and the filing of a petition.
Read first time and referred to committee on public safety.
House File 261, by Rasmussen, a bill for an act providing a
property tax exemption and rental income exclusion as incentives for
certain landowners to rent agricultural land to certain small farmers.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
House File 262, by Tymeson and Hoffman, a bill for an act
relating to property tax relief and school infrastructure purposes by
increasing the state sales and use taxes and distributing certain state
sales and use tax revenues to school districts for property tax relief or
school infrastructure purposes if approved by a vote of the electorate,
providing a penalty, and including an effective date.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 263, by Murphy and Maddox, a bill for an act relating
to the fee and use of fee for a certificate of birth.
Read first time and referred to committee on human resources.
House File 264, by Swaim, a bill for an act relating to charges for
services provided by the Iowa cooperative extension service in
agriculture and home economics of Iowa state university to the 4-H
organization and its clubs.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 265, by committee on public safety, a bill for an act
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.
Read first time and placed on the calendar.
House File 266, by Ford, a bill for an act relating to a
requirement that children receive a blood test for lead by age six or
prior to enrollment in an elementary school.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 267, by Wilderdyke, Tjepkes, De Boef, S. Olson,
Watts, and Jones, a bill for an act providing for an additional
property tax levy for school districts, and providing an effective date.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 268, by Boal, a bill for an act providing for an income
tax credit for tuition and textbook expenses incurred through the
obtaining of supplemental education services, and providing a
retroactive applicability date.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
House File 269, by Ford, a bill for an act directing the state board
of education to adopt rules providing criteria and a procedure for
recognizing performance excellence that results from the
implementation of outstanding comprehensive school improvement
plans submitted by school districts.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
House File 270, by Lensing, Mascher, Greimann, Myers, and
Fallon, a bill for an act relating to discrimination based upon a
person's sexual orientation under the Iowa civil rights Act.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
House File 271, by Ford, a bill for an act relating to the
operations of the state board of education, the department of
education, school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and other
state and local agencies with regard to attendance and truancy,
academic standards, and related matters.
Read first time and referred to committee on education.
SENATE MESSAGE CONSIDERED
Senate File 97, by committee on transportation, a bill for an act
relating to highway, aviation, motor vehicle transportation and public
transit, including regulation of junkyards along highways and
placement of political signs, elimination of the aviation hangar
revolving loan fund, applications for certificates of title by motor
vehicle dealers, fees charged for driver's licenses and nonoperator's
identification cards and making an appropriation, security interests
in motor vehicles, charges financed in a motor vehicle retail
installment transaction, confidentiality of motor vehicle accident
reports, requirements for motor carrier safety rules, exemptions for
certain motor vehicle operators from motor carrier safety rules and
hazardous materials transportation regulations, load limits for
vehicles transporting construction machinery, urban public transit
funding, and tariffs charged by motor carriers of household goods,
and including effective and retroactive applicability date provisions.
Read first time and referred to committee on transportation.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
House File 196
Local Government: Tjepkes, Chair; Hahn and Huser.
House File 201
Local Government: Fallon, Chair; Arnold and Maddox.
HOUSE STUDY BILL COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
H.S.B. 175 Agriculture
Relating to the governance of cooperatives.
H.S.B. 176 Judiciary
Relating to motor vehicle parking violations, and providing for a fee.
H.S.B. 177 Judiciary
Relating to criminal sentencing by permitting a conditional discharge,
reclassifying certain felonies, and reopening a sentence that requires
a maximum accumulation of earned time credits of fifteen percent of
the total term of confinement, and providing penalties.
H.S.B. 178 Judiciary
Expanding the scope of immunity under the Iowa tort claims Act to
include any claim against the state of Iowa based upon the
enforcement of laws administered by the department of workforce
development and its division of labor services.
On motion by Manternach of Jones the House adjourned at 9:02
a.m., until 1:00 p.m., Monday, February 24, 2003.
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