HF 2374 (LSB 5225HV (4) 83)

RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF SERIOUS INJURY FOR PURPOSES OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 235B.2, subsection 13, Code Supplement 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   13.  “Serious injury” means a disabling mental illness, or a bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ the same as defined in section 702.18.
    Sec. 2.  Section 321J.1, subsection 9, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   9.  “Serious injury” means a bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious permanent disfigurement, or which causes protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ or major bodily member, or which causes the loss of any bodily member the same as defined in section 702.18.
    Sec. 3.  Section 462A.2, subsection 36, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:

   36.  “Serious injury” means a bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious permanent disfigurement, or which causes protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ or major bodily member, or which causes the loss of any bodily member the same as defined in section 702.18.

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PATRICK J. MURPHY

Speaker of the House

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JOHN P. KIBBIE

President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2374, Eighty-third General Assembly.

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MARK BRANDSGARD

Chief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2010

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CHESTER J. CULVER

Governor