H-8070

   Amend  the amendment, H-8057, to House File 2386 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, by striking lines 2 through 18 and inserting: 
   <1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   Section 1.  Section 232.116, subsection 1, Code 2016, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  p.  The court finds clear and convincing evidence that the child was conceived as the result of sexual abuse as defined in section 709.1, and the biological parent against whom the sexual abuse was perpetrated requests termination of the parental rights of the biological parent who perpetrated the sexual abuse. However, this ground for ordering termination of parental rights does not apply to a violation of section 709.4, subsection 1, paragraph “b”, subparagraph (3), subparagraph division (d), if the perpetrator is under twenty-two years of age.
   Sec. 2.  Section 600A.8, Code 2016, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  11.  The court finds clear and convincing evidence that the child was conceived as the result of sexual abuse as defined in section 709.1, and the biological parent against whom the sexual abuse was perpetrated requests termination of the parental rights of the biological parent who perpetrated the sexual abuse. However, this ground for ordering termination of parental rights does not apply to a violation of section 709.4, subsection 1, paragraph “b”, subparagraph (3), subparagraph division (d), if the perpetrator is under twenty-two years of age.>>

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HEARTSILL of Marion