House Amendment 8623


PAG LIN

     1  1    Amend Senate File 2356, as amended, passed, and
     1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 13, after line 5 by inserting:
     1  4                          <DIVISION ___
     1  5                      CHOICE OF HEALTH CARE
     1  6    Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  1.19  Right to choose health
     1  7 care.
     1  8    No law shall restrict a person's natural right and
     1  9 power to secure the blessings of liberty to choose
     1 10 private health care systems or private health care
     1 11 plans.  No law shall interfere with the right of a
     1 12 person or entity to pay for lawful medical services
     1 13 to preserve life or health, and no law shall impose a
     1 14 penalty, tax, fee, or fine, of any type, for declining
     1 15 or failing to contract for health care coverage or for
     1 16 declining or failing to participate in any particular
     1 17 health care system or plan, except as required by a
     1 18 court of law where an individual or entity is a named
     1 19 party in a legal dispute.  Nothing in this section
     1 20 shall be construed to expand, limit, or otherwise
     1 21 modify any determination of law regarding what
     1 22 constitutes lawful medical services within the state
     1 23 of Iowa.>
     1 24 #2.  Title page, line 4, after <exchange> by
     1 25 inserting <, and relating to the right to choose health
     1 26 care>
     1 27 #3.  By renumbering as necessary.


                                        
          ROBERTS of Carroll


                                        
          SORENSON of Warren


                                        
          ALONS of Sioux


                                        
          ANDERSON of Page


                                        
          ARNOLD of Lucas


                                        
          BAUDLER of Adair


                                        
          CHAMBERS of O'Brien


                                        
          COWNIE of Polk


                                        
          DE BOEF of Keokuk


                                        
          DEYOE of Story


                                        
          DOLECHECK of Ringgold


                                        
          DRAKE of Cass


                                        
          FORRISTALL of Pottawattamie


                                        
          GRASSLEY of Butler


                                        
          HAGENOW of Polk


                                        
          HEATON of Henry


                                        
          HELLAND of Polk


                                        
          HUSEMAN of Cherokee


                                        
          KAUFMANN of Cedar


                                        
          KOESTER of Polk


                                        
          LUKAN of Dubuque


                                        
          MAY of Dickinson


                                        
          L. MILLER of Scott


                                        
          S. OLSON of Clinton


                                        
          PAULSEN of Linn


                                        
          PETTENGILL of Benton


                                        
          RAECKER of Polk


                                        
          RANTS of Woodbury


                                        
          RAYHONS of Hancock


                                        
          SANDS of Louisa


                                        
          SCHULTE of Linn


                                        
          SCHULTZ of Crawford


                                        
          SODERBERG of Plymouth


                                        
          STRUYK of Pottawattamie


                                        
          SWEENEY of Hardin


                                        
          TJEPKES of Webster


                                        
          TYMESON of Madison


                                        
          UPMEYER of Hancock


                                        
          VAN ENGELENHOVEN of Marion


                                        
          WAGNER of Linn


                                        
          WATTS of Dallas


                                        
          WINDSCHITL of Harrison


                                        
          WORTHAN of Buena Vista
          SF2356.2696 (3) 83
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