H-1196

   Amend House File 937 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, after line 27 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 622.10, subsection 9, paragraph a, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  A peer support group counselor or individual present for a individual or group crisis intervention who obtains information from an officer or a civilian employee of a law enforcement agency, emergency management agency, emergency medical services agency, or fire department by reason of the counselor’s capacity as a peer support group counselor or an individual’s presence for a individual or group crisis intervention shall not be allowed, in giving testimony, to disclose any confidential communication properly entrusted to the counselor or individual present for a group crisis intervention by the officer or civilian employee while receiving counseling or group crisis intervention including in giving testimony.
   Sec. ___.  Section 622.10, subsection 9, paragraph c, subparagraphs (1) and (2), Code 2025, are amended to read as follows:
   (1)  “Officer” means a certified law enforcement officer, fire fighter, emergency medical technician or medical provider, paramedic, corrections officer, detention officer, jailer, probation or parole officer, public safety telecommunicator, dispatcher, emergency management coordinator under chapter 29C, or any other law enforcement officer certified by the Iowa law enforcement academy and employed by a city, county, or state agency.
   (2)  “Peer support group counselor” means a law enforcement officer, fire fighter, civilian employee of a law enforcement agency or fire department, or a nonemployee counselor who has been designated as a peer support group counselor by a sheriff, police chief, fire chief, or department head of a law enforcement agency, fire department, or emergency medical services agency and who has received training to provide emotional and moral support and counseling to an officer or group who needs those services as a result of an incident in which the officer or group was involved while acting in the officer’s or group’s official capacity.>
   2.  Title page, line 1, after <relating to> by inserting <certain administrative procedures involving law enforcement officers, including>
   3.  Title page, line 2, after <certification> by inserting <and communications in professional confidence.>
   4.  By renumbering as necessary.

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VONDRAN of Scott