House
File
2427
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AN
ACT
RELATING
TO
ACCESS
TO
CERTAIN
CHILD
ABUSE
AND
DEPENDENT
ADULT
ABUSE
INFORMATION
BY
FREE
CLINICS,
AND
INCLUDING
EFFECTIVE
DATE
PROVISIONS.
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
Section
1.
NEW
SECTION
.
135.24A
Free
clinics
——
volunteer
record
check.
1.
For
purposes
of
this
section,
“free
clinic”
means
a
free
clinic
as
defined
in
section
135.24
that
is
also
a
network
of
free
clinics
in
this
state
that
offers
operational
and
collaborative
opportunities
to
free
clinics.
2.
Persons
who
are
potential
volunteers
or
volunteers
in
a
free
clinic
in
a
position
having
direct
individual
contact
with
patients
of
the
free
clinic
shall
be
subject
to
criminal
history
and
child
and
dependent
adult
abuse
record
checks
in
accordance
with
this
section.
The
free
clinic
shall
request
House
File
2427,
p.
2
that
the
department
of
public
safety
perform
the
criminal
history
check
and
the
department
of
human
services
perform
child
and
dependent
adult
abuse
record
checks
of
the
person
in
this
state
and
may
request
these
checks
in
other
states.
3.
A
free
clinic
subject
to
this
section
shall
establish
an
evaluation
process
to
determine
whether
a
crime
of
founded
child
or
dependent
adult
abuse
warrants
prohibition
of
the
person’s
participation
as
a
volunteer
in
the
free
clinic.
The
evaluation
process
shall
not
be
less
stringent
than
the
evaluation
process
performed
by
the
department
of
human
services
and
shall
be
approved
by
the
department
of
human
services.
Sec.
2.
Section
235A.15,
subsection
2,
paragraph
e,
Code
2018,
is
amended
by
adding
the
following
new
subparagraph:
NEW
SUBPARAGRAPH
.
(25)
To
a
free
clinic
as
defined
in
section
135.24A
for
purposes
of
record
checks
of
potential
volunteers
and
existing
volunteers
at
the
free
clinic.
Sec.
3.
Section
235B.6,
subsection
2,
paragraph
e,
Code
2018,
is
amended
by
adding
the
following
new
subparagraph:
NEW
SUBPARAGRAPH
.
(19)
To
a
free
clinic
as
defined
in
section
135.24A
for
purposes
of
record
checks
of
potential
volunteers
and
existing
volunteers
at
the
free
clinic.
Sec.
4.
Section
235B.7,
subsection
2,
Code
2018,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2.
a.
Requests
for
dependent
adult
abuse
information
may
be
made
orally
by
telephone
if
a
person
making
the
request
believes
that
the
information
is
needed
immediately
and
if
information
sufficient
to
demonstrate
authorized
access
is
provided.
If
a
request
is
made
orally
by
telephone,
a
written
request
form
shall
be
filed
within
seventy-two
hours
of
the
oral
request.
b.
The
department
of
inspections
and
appeals
may
provide
access
to
the
single
contact
repository
established
under
section
135C.33,
subsection
7,
for
criminal
and
abuse
history
checks
made
by
those
employers,
agencies,
and
other
persons
that
are
authorized
access
to
dependent
adult
abuse
information
under
section
235B.6
and
are
required
by
law
to
perform
such
checks.
House
File
2427,
p.
3
Sec.
5.
EFFECTIVE
DATE.
This
Act,
being
deemed
of
immediate
importance,
takes
effect
upon
enactment.
______________________________
LINDA
UPMEYER
Speaker
of
the
House
______________________________
CHARLES
SCHNEIDER
President
of
the
Senate
I
hereby
certify
that
this
bill
originated
in
the
House
and
is
known
as
House
File
2427,
Eighty-seventh
General
Assembly.
______________________________
CARMINE
BOAL
Chief
Clerk
of
the
House
Approved
_______________,
2018
______________________________
KIM
REYNOLDS
Governor