H-1273

   Amend  the amendment, H-1251, to Senate File 471, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 7, after line 2 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 600B.25, subsection 1, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  Upon a finding of paternity pursuant to section 600B.24, the court shall establish the father’s monthly support payment and the amount of the support debt accrued or accruing pursuant to section 598.21B. The support obligation shall include support of the child between the ages of eighteen and nineteen years if the child is engaged full-time in completing high school graduation or equivalency requirements in a manner which is reasonably expected to result in completion of the requirements prior to the person reaching nineteen years of age. The court may order the father to pay amounts the court deems appropriate for the past support and maintenance of the child from the post fertilization age of twenty weeks forward as determined pursuant to section 146B.2 and for the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by or for the mother in connection with prenatal care, the birth of the child, and postnatal care of the child and the mother, and other medical support as defined in section 252E.1. The court may award the prevailing party the reasonable costs of suit, including but not limited to reasonable attorney fees.>
   2.  Page 7, line 10, after <abortion> by inserting <and required payment of child support>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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BENNETT of Linn