Senate File 2281 - Enrolled

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  1  1                                             SENATE FILE 2281
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  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 PROHIBITING EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AN EMPLOYEE
  1  5    WITNESS IN CERTAIN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS.
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  1  7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  9    Section 1.  Section 915.23, subsection 1, Code 2007, is
  1 10 amended to read as follows:
  1 11    1.  An employer shall not discharge an employee, or take or
  1 12 fail to take action regarding an employee's promotion or
  1 13 proposed promotion, or take action to reduce an employee's
  1 14 wages or benefits for actual time worked, due to the service
  1 15 of an employee as a witness in a criminal proceeding or as a
  1 16 plaintiff, defendant, or witness in a civil proceeding
  1 17 pursuant to chapter 236.
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  1 20                                                             
  1 21                               JOHN P. KIBBIE
  1 22                               President of the Senate
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  1 26                               PATRICK J. MURPHY
  1 27                               Speaker of the House
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  1 29    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
  1 30 is known as Senate File 2281, Eighty=second General Assembly.
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  1 34                               MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
  1 35                               Secretary of the Senate
  2  1 Approved                , 2008
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  2  5 CHESTER J. CULVER
  2  6 Governor