HF 2270 (LSB 5319HV (3) 86)

INCLUDING FATHERS WHOSE PATERNITY HAS BEEN LAWFULLY ESTABLISHED IN THE DEFINITION OF PARENT FOR THE PURPOSES OF JUVENILE JUSTICE PROCEEDINGS.

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

    Section 1.  Section 232.2, subsection 39, Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   39.  “Parent” means a biological or adoptive mother or father of a child but; or a father whose paternity has been established by operation of law due to the individual’s marriage to the mother at the time of conception, birth, or at any time during the period between conception and birth of the child, by order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or by administrative order when authorized by state law. “Parent”

 does not include a mother or father whose parental rights have been terminated.

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LINDA UPMEYER

Speaker of the House

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PAM JOCHUM

President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2270, Eighty-sixth General Assembly.

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CARMINE BOAL

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved _______________, 2016

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TERRY E. BRANSTAD

Governor