H-8121

   Amend  the amendment, H-8102, to House File 2456 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, after line 1 by inserting: 
   <___.  Page 1, after line 16 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 125.82, subsection 4, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  The respondent’s welfare is paramount, and the hearing shall be tried as a civil matter and conducted in as informal a manner as is consistent with orderly procedure.  The hearing may be held by video conference at the discretion of the court. Discovery as permitted under the Iowa rules of civil procedure is available to the respondent. The court shall receive all relevant and material evidence, but the court is not bound by the rules of evidence. A presumption in favor of the respondent exists, and the burden of evidence and support of the contentions made in the application shall be upon the person who filed the application. If upon completion of the hearing the court finds that the contention that the respondent is a person with a substance-related disorder has not been sustained by clear and convincing evidence, the court shall deny the application and terminate the proceeding.>>
   2.  Page 5, line 7, after <association,> by inserting <Iowa behavioral health association,>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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LUNDGREN of Dubuque