House File 183 - Enrolled House File 183 AN ACT RELATING TO SERVICE OF COPIES OF COURT DOCUMENTS ON CERTAIN PERSONS RELATING TO THE RECEIPT OF EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE SERVICES BY A DEPENDENT ADULT. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. Section 235B.19, subsection 3, paragraph a, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: a. The department shall serve a copy of the petition and any order authorizing protective services, if issued, on the dependent adult and on persons who are competent adults and reasonably ascertainable at the time the petition is filed in accordance with the following priority: (1) An attorney in fact named by the dependent adult in a durable power of attorney for health care pursuant to chapter 144B . (2) The dependent adult’s spouse , if not legally separated from the dependent adult . (3) The dependent adult’s children. (4) The dependent adult’s parents. (4) (5) The dependent adult’s grandchildren. (5) (6) The dependent adult’s siblings. (7) The dependent adult’s grandparents.
House File 183, p. 2 (6) (8) The dependent adult’s aunts and uncles. (7) (9) The dependent adult’s nieces and nephews. (8) (10) The dependent adult’s cousins. ______________________________ LINDA UPMEYER Speaker of the House ______________________________ JACK WHITVER President of the Senate I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 183, Eighty-seventh General Assembly. ______________________________ CARMINE BOAL Chief Clerk of the House Approved _______________, 2017 ______________________________ TERRY E. BRANSTAD Governor