Amend House File 471, as passed by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 2, after line 1 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 600A.8, Code 2013, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  11.
  a.  The parent is palpably unfit to be a party to the parent-child relationship as determined by a consistent pattern of specific conduct or specific conditions directly relating to the parent-child relationship which are determined by the court to be of a duration or nature that renders the parent unable, for the reasonably foreseeable future, to provide the appropriate care and support for the ongoing physical, mental, or emotional needs of the child.
   b.  In making a determination that a parent is palpably unfit, the court may consider any specific conduct or specific conditions directly relating to the parent-child relationship that the court deems significant in rendering the parent unable to provide the appropriate care and support for the ongoing physical, mental, or emotional needs of the child. Such conduct or conditions may include but are not limited to the parent’s history relating to a substance-related disorder as defined in section 125.2 that results in the parent being a danger to self or others as evidenced by prior acts; the parent’s history of domestic abuse assault pursuant to section 708.2A; the parent’s history of imprisonment for a felony offense including any crime against a child; or the parent’s current imprisonment from which the parent is unlikely to be released in five years or less.>
   2.  Title page, line 1, after <to> by inserting <termination of parental rights proceedings including grounds for termination of parental rights and>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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BRAD ZAUN