2001 Summary of Legislation ALCOHOL REGULATION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE Published by the Iowa General Assembly -- Legislative Service Bureau

ALCOHOL REGULATION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE LEGISLATION

SENATE FILE 62 - Processing, Storage, and Distribution of Honey -- Residences (full text of act)

   BY COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. Code chapter 137F provides for the regulation of food establishments and food processing plants by the Department of Inspections and Appeals, including the inspection and licensing of premises where food products are prepared and distributed. This Act amends provisions in the chapter to exempt from regulation the premises of a residence in which honey is stored; prepared; packaged, including by placement in a container; labeled; or from which honey is distributed.

SENATE FILE 209 - Control of Infectious or Contagious Diseases in Cattle and Other Animals -- Paratuberculosis (full text of act)

   BY JENSEN. This Act provides for the regulation of livestock, including by providing for the control of paratuberculosis and the marketing of dairy cattle.

   PARATUBERCULOSIS. Sometimes referred to "Johne’s disease," paratuberculosis affects livestock, but most often cattle and especially dairy cattle. The Act creates a new chapter requiring the Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship to establish procedures to determine whether cattle are infected with the disease. The Act requires the owner of infected cattle to mark the right ears of the cattle with the letter "C" as required by the department. The Act prohibits a person from selling infected cattle other than directly to a slaughtering establishment or to a concentration point for sale directly to a slaughtering establishment.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 7 - World Food Prize Awards Ceremony (full text of resolution)

   BY IVERSON AND GRONSTAL. This Joint Resolution authorizes the consumption of wine at an awards ceremony to be held by the World Food Prize Foundation at the State Capitol on or around October 18, 2001.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 8 - Food Safety and Genetic Engineering Educational Program (full text of resolution)

   BY IVERSON, KRAMER AND GRONSTAL. This Joint Resolution authorizes the consumption of wine at a dinner to be held by the State Legislative Leaders Foundation and Iowa State University at the State Capitol on or around June 22, 2001.

RELATED LEGISLATION

SENATE FILE 458 -- Services and Proceedings Involving Juvenile Delinquents and Other Children (Complete summary under CHILDREN & YOUTH.)

   This Act relates to children’s programs and provisions involving the Department of Human Services and the juvenile court, including allowing an ex parte order for removal of a child when the child’s caretaker refuses or fails to comply with requests for drug tests of the child, the caretaker, or a person living in the child’s home.

SENATE FILE 525 -- Federal Block Grant Appropriations (Complete summary under APPROPRIATIONS.)

   This Act appropriates federal block grant and other nonstate moneys to state agencies for the federal fiscal year beginning October 1, 2001, and ending September 30, 2002. The Act includes funding for various substance abuse and drug enforcement programs.

SENATE FILE 530 -- Appropriations -- Justice System (Complete summary under APPROPRIATIONS.)

   This Act makes appropriations for FY 2001-2002 to the departments of Justice, Corrections, Public Defense, and Public Safety, the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy, the Office of Public Defender, and the Board of Parole. The Act also requests the Legislative Council to study the civil commitment of persons with a substance abuse problem, and limits the drug courts to persons who have been convicted of a criminal offense and grants priority in the program to felony offenders.

SENATE FILE 537 -- Tobacco Settlement Fund Appropriations (Complete summary under APPROPRIATIONS.)

   This Act relates to and makes appropriations from the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Fund and the Healthy Iowans Tobacco Trust for various health services providers and related programs.

HOUSE FILE 178 -- Child Abuse and Protection -- Drug Manufacture or Possession in Child’s Presence (Complete summary under CHILDREN & YOUTH.)

   This Act applies child in need of assistance and child abuse provisions of the Juvenile Justice Code to children whose parent, guardian or caregiver has manufactured or possessed a dangerous substance in the presence of a child.

HOUSE FILE 726 -- Appropriations -- Health and Human Rights (Complete summary under APPROPRIATIONS.)

   This Act provides for appropriations to the Department for the Blind, the Iowa State Civil Rights Commission, the Department of Elder Affairs, the Governor’s Office of Drug Control Policy, the Iowa Department of Public Health, the Department of Human Rights, and the Commission of Veterans Affairs. This Act increases the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) surcharge from $5 to $10 for operating while intoxicated offenses and offenses relating to the possession, manufacture or delivery of controlled substances. Revenues from the DARE surcharge shall be utilized for the DARE Program and other similar programs.

HOUSE FILE 732 -- Appropriations -- Human Services (Complete summary under APPROPRIATIONS.)

   This Act makes appropriations to the Department of Human Services and includes various provisions affecting substance abuse services, including authorization for a dual diagnosis mental illness/substance abuse program at the Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute and managed care for substance abuse service coverage under Medicaid.

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