Amend House File 2226, as passed by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 10 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 235A.18, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code Supplement 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  Report and disposition data relating to a particular case of alleged child abuse shall be sealed ten years after the initial placement of the data in the registry unless good cause be shown why the data should remain open to authorized access. If a subsequent report of an alleged case of child abuse involving the child named in the initial data placed in the registry as the victim of abuse or a person named in the data as having abused a child is received by the department within this ten-year period, the data shall be sealed ten years after receipt of the subsequent report unless good cause be shown why the data should remain open to authorized access. However, such report and
 
a person named in the initial data placed in the registry as having abused a child shall have the person’s name removed from the registry if that person has not had a subsequent case of alleged abuse which resulted in the person’s name being placed in the registry as the person responsible for the abuse within the ten-year period. Report and disposition data shall be made available to the department of justice if the department requests access to the alleged child abuse records for purposes of review by the prosecutor’s review committee or commitment of sexually violent predators under chapter 229A.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES

AMANDA RAGAN, CHAIRPERSON