HF 435 — A bill for an act relating to emergency contact information for use by the department of transportation and law enforcement, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 136.) Effective date: 01/01/2022.

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B E I T E N A C T E D B Y T H E G E N E R A L A S S E M B L Y O F T H E S T A T E O F I O W A :

The department shall include in the electronic database used by the department and law enforcement to access registration, titling, and driver'sdriver’s license information a collection of emergency contact information for persons who are issued a driver'sdriver’s license or nonoperator'snonoperator’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'semployee’s official duties, and shall not be considered a public record under chapter 22.

At the time a person applies for issuance, replacement, or renewal of a driver'sdriver’s license or nonoperator'snonoperator’s identification card, the department shall request that the applicant voluntarily submit emergency contact information for inclusion in the database.

2 for issuance, replacement, or renewal of a driver'sdriver’s license or nonoperator'snonoperator’s identification card.

The department shall not require a person to submit emergency contact information as part of the driver'sdriver’s license or nonoperator'snonoperator’s identification card issuance, replacement, or renewal process.

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 tto o 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.

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;following:

House File 435/435, p.

This Act takes effect January 1, 02022. 2 2 .

P______________________________ A______________________________ TPAT GGRASSLEY RJAKE ACHAPMAN S S L E Y C H A P M A N Speaker of the HouHouse PPresident rof ethe sSenate i d e n t o f t h e S e n a t e I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 435, Eighty-ninth General Assembly.

M______________________________ EMEGHAN GNELSON HChief AClerk Nof Nthe EHouse LApproved S_______________, O2021 N______________________________ .KIM REYNOLDS Governor

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