House
File
435
-
Enrolled
House
File
435
AN
ACT
RELATING
TO
EMERGENCY
CONTACT
INFORMATION
FOR
USE
BY
THE
DEPARTMENT
OF
TRANSPORTATION
AND
LAW
ENFORCEMENT,
AND
INCLUDING
EFFECTIVE
DATE
PROVISIONS.
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
Section
1.
NEW
SECTION
.
321.197
Emergency
contact
information.
1.
The
department
shall
include
in
the
electronic
database
used
by
the
department
and
law
enforcement
to
access
registration,
titling,
and
driver’s
license
information
a
collection
of
emergency
contact
information
for
persons
who
are
issued
a
driver’s
license
or
nonoperator’s
identification
card.
Emergency
contact
information
in
the
database
shall
be
confidential
and
accessible
only
by
employees
of
the
department
or
a
law
enforcement
agency
in
the
performance
of
the
employee’s
official
duties,
and
shall
not
be
considered
a
public
record
under
chapter
22.
2.
a.
At
the
time
a
person
applies
for
issuance,
replacement,
or
renewal
of
a
driver’s
license
or
nonoperator’s
identification
card,
the
department
shall
request
that
the
applicant
voluntarily
submit
emergency
contact
information
for
inclusion
in
the
database.
A
person
may
provide
the
emergency
contact
information
along
with
or
separate
from
an
application
House
File
435,
p.
2
for
issuance,
replacement,
or
renewal
of
a
driver’s
license
or
nonoperator’s
identification
card.
The
department
shall
not
require
a
person
to
submit
emergency
contact
information
as
part
of
the
driver’s
license
or
nonoperator’s
identification
card
issuance,
replacement,
or
renewal
process.
The
department
shall
accept
submitted
information
without
payment
of
a
fee.
b.
The
department
shall
allow
a
person
to
provide
the
name,
address,
telephone
number,
and
relationship
to
the
person
of
no
more
than
two
emergency
contacts
whom
the
person
wishes
to
be
contacted
if
the
person
is
involved
in
a
motor
vehicle
accident
or
emergency
situation
and
the
person
dies
or
is
seriously
injured
or
rendered
unconscious
and
is
unable
to
communicate
with
the
emergency
contact.
The
department
shall
accept
the
emergency
contact
information
provided
by
a
person,
but
has
no
duty
to
verify
any
of
the
information
provided.
c.
The
emergency
contact
need
not
be
the
next
of
kin
of
the
person,
except
that
if
the
person
is
under
eighteen
years
of
age
and
is
not
emancipated,
the
person
shall
include
a
parent,
guardian,
or
custodian
of
the
person
as
an
emergency
contact.
3.
In
the
event
of
a
motor
vehicle
accident
or
emergency
situation
in
which
a
person
dies
or
is
seriously
injured
or
rendered
unconscious
and
is
unable
to
communicate
with
the
emergency
contact
specified
in
the
database,
an
employee
of
a
law
enforcement
agency
shall
make
a
good-faith
effort
to
notify
the
emergency
contact
of
the
situation
based
on
information
in
the
database,
but
the
department,
the
law
enforcement
agency,
and
the
employee
shall
not
be
liable
if
the
employee
is
not
able
to
notify
the
emergency
contact.
4.
The
department
shall
adopt
rules
pursuant
to
chapter
17A
necessary
to
administer
this
section,
including
but
not
limited
to
rules
relating
to
all
of
the
following:
a.
The
methods
whereby
a
person
who
has
submitted
the
information
of
an
emergency
contact
for
inclusion
in
the
database
may
make
changes
to
that
entry.
b.
The
methods
whereby
a
person
may
opt
out
of
being
listed
as
an
emergency
contact
in
the
database.
House
File
435,
p.
3
Sec.
2.
EFFECTIVE
DATE.
This
Act
takes
effect
January
1,
2022.
______________________________
PAT
GRASSLEY
Speaker
of
the
House
______________________________
JAKE
CHAPMAN
President
of
the
Senate
I
hereby
certify
that
this
bill
originated
in
the
House
and
is
known
as
House
File
435,
Eighty-ninth
General
Assembly.
______________________________
MEGHAN
NELSON
Chief
Clerk
of
the
House
Approved
_______________,
2021
______________________________
KIM
REYNOLDS
Governor