House Amendment 8535


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 2681 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  Page 2, by inserting after line 23 the
     1  3 following:
     1  4    <Sec.    .  Section 299.5A, unnumbered paragraph 4,
     1  5 Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
     1  6    The school district shall be responsible for
     1  7 monitoring any agreements arrived at through
     1  8 mediation.  If a parent, guardian, or legal or actual
     1  9 custodian, or the child if the child is ten years of
     1 10 age or older, refuses to engage in mediation or
     1 11 violates a term of the agreement, the matter shall be
     1 12 rereferred to the county attorney for prosecution
     1 13 under section 299.6.  The county attorney's office or
     1 14 the mediation service shall require the parent,
     1 15 guardian, or legal or actual custodian and the school
     1 16 to pay a fee to help defray the administrative cost of
     1 17 mediation services.  The county attorney's office or
     1 18 the mediation service shall establish a sliding scale
     1 19 of fees to be charged parents, guardians, and legal or
     1 20 actual custodians based upon ability to pay.  A
     1 21 parent, guardian, or legal or actual custodian shall
     1 22 not be denied the services of a mediator solely
     1 23 because of inability to pay the fee.
     1 24    Sec.    .  Section 299.6, unnumbered paragraph 1,
     1 25 Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
     1 26    Any person who violates a mediation agreement under
     1 27 section 299.5A, who is referred for prosecution under
     1 28 section 299.5A and is convicted of a violation of any
     1 29 of the provisions of sections 299.1 through 299.5, who
     1 30 violates any of the provisions of sections 299.1
     1 31 through 299.5, or who refuses to participate in
     1 32 mediation under section 299.5A, for a first offense,
     1 33 is guilty of a simple misdemeanor.  If a child ten
     1 34 years of age or older violates a mediation agreement
     1 35 under section 299.5A, or refuses to participate in
     1 36 mediation under section 299.5A, the child commits a
     1 37 delinquent act.  However, the child shall not be
     1 38 placed in detention under chapter 232 for a violation
     1 39 of section 299.5A.>
     1 40 #2.  By renumbering as necessary.
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