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IA Code § 686D.6 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES|Chapter 686D - COVID-19 RELATED LIABILITY|Section 686D.6 - Liability of health care providers.

686D.6 Liability of health care providers.   1. A health care provider shall not be liable for civil damages for causing or contributing, directly or indirectly, to the death or injury of an individual as a result of the health care provider’s acts or omissions while providing or arranging health care in support of the state’s response to COVID-19. This subsection shall apply to all of the following:   a. Injury or death resulting from screening, assessing, diagnosing, caring for, or treating individuals with a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19.   b. Prescribing, administering, or dispensing a pharmaceutical for off-label use to treat a patient with a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19.   c. Acts or omissions while providing health care to individuals unrelated to COVID-19 when those acts or omissions support the state’s response to COVID-19, including any of the following:   (1) Delaying or canceling nonurgent or elective dental, medical, or surgical procedures, or altering the diagnosis or treatment of an individual in response to any federal or state statute, regulation, order, or public health guidance.   (2) Diagnosing or treating patients outside the normal scope of the health care provider’s license or practice.   (3) Using medical devices, equipment, or supplies outside of their normal use for the provision of health care, including using or modifying medical devices, equipment, or supplies for an unapproved use.   (4) Conducting tests or providing treatment to any individual outside the premises of a health care facility.   (5) Acts or omissions undertaken by a health care provider because of a lack of staffing, facilities, medical devices, equipment, supplies, or other resources attributable to COVID-19 that renders the health care provider unable to provide the level or manner of care to any person that otherwise would have been required in the absence of COVID-19.   (6) Acts or omissions undertaken by a health care provider relating to use or nonuse of personal protective equipment.   2. This section shall not relieve any person of liability for civil damages for any act or omission which constitutes recklessness or willful misconduct.  2020 Acts, ch 1070, §8, 11  Section applies retroactively to January 1, 2020; 2020 Acts, ch 1070, §11  NEW section
IA Code § 686D.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES|Chapter 686D - COVID-19 RELATED LIABILITY|Section 686D.7 - Supplies, equipment, and products designed, manufactured, labeled, sold, distributed, and donated in response to COVID-19.

686D.7 Supplies, equipment, and products designed, manufactured, labeled, sold, distributed, and donated in response to COVID-19.   1. Any person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates household disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product in response to COVID-19 shall not be liable in a civil action alleging personal injury, death, or property damage caused by or resulting from the design, manufacturing, labeling, selling, distributing, or donating of the household disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product.   2. Any person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates household disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product in response to COVID-19 shall not be liable in a civil action alleging personal injury, death, or property damage caused by or resulting from a failure to provide proper instructions or sufficient warnings.   3. This section shall not apply in the event of any of the following:   a. The person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates household disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product had actual knowledge of a defect in the household disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product when put to the use for which the household disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product was designed, manufactured, sold, distributed, or donated, and the person recklessly disregarded a substantial and unnecessary risk that the household disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product would cause serious personal injury, death, or serious property damage.   b. The person that designs, manufactures, labels, sells, distributes, or donates household disinfecting or cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, or a qualified product acted with actual malice.  2020 Acts, ch 1070, §9, 11  Section applies retroactively to January 1, 2020; 2020 Acts, ch 1070, §11  NEW section
IA Code § 686D.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES|Chapter 686D - COVID-19 RELATED LIABILITY|Section 686D.8 - Construction.

686D.8 Construction.   This chapter shall not be construed to do any of the following:   1. Create, recognize, or ratify a claim or cause of action of any kind.   2. Eliminate or satisfy a required element of a claim or cause of action of any kind.   3. Affect the rights or limits under workers’ compensation as provided in chapter 85, 85A, or 85B, or the rights or limits related to police officers or fire fighters under chapter 410 or 411.   4. Abrogate, amend, repeal, alter, or affect any statutory or common law immunity or limitation of liability.  2020 Acts, ch 1070, §10, 11  Section applies retroactively to January 1, 2020; 2020 Acts, ch 1070, §11  NEW section
IA Code § 690.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 690 - CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION|Section 690.1 - Criminal identification.

690.1 Criminal identification.   The commissioner of public safety may provide in the department a division of criminal investigation. The commissioner may adopt rules for the same. The sheriff of each county and the chief of police of each city shall furnish to the department criminal identification records and other information as directed by the commissioner of public safety.  [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §13416; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §749.1; C79, 81, §690.1]  97 Acts, ch 23, §77; 2006 Acts, ch 1034, §2  Referred to in §331.653
IA Code § 690.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 690 - CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION|Section 690.2 - Fingerprints and palm prints — photographs — duty of sheriff and chief of police.

690.2 Fingerprints and palm prints — photographs — duty of sheriff and chief of police.   The sheriff of every county, and the chief of police of each city regardless of the form of government thereof, shall take the fingerprints of all unidentified dead bodies in their respective jurisdictions and all persons who are taken into custody for the commission of a serious misdemeanor, aggravated misdemeanor, or felony and shall forward such fingerprint records on such forms and in such manner as may be prescribed by the commissioner of public safety, within two working days after the fingerprint records are taken, to the department of public safety. Fingerprints may be taken of a person who has been arrested for a simple misdemeanor subject to an enhanced penalty for conviction of a second or subsequent offense. In addition to the fingerprints as herein provided, any such officer may also take the photograph and palm prints of any such person and forward them to the department of public safety. If a defendant is convicted by a court of this state of an offense which is a simple misdemeanor subject to an enhanced penalty for conviction of a second or subsequent offense, a serious misdemeanor, an aggravated misdemeanor, or a felony, the court shall determine whether such defendant has previously been fingerprinted in connection with the criminal proceedings leading to the conviction and, if not, shall order that the defendant be fingerprinted and those prints submitted to the department of public safety. The court shall also order that a juvenile adjudicated delinquent for an offense which would be an offense other than a simple misdemeanor if committed by an adult, be fingerprinted and the prints submitted to the department of public safety if the juvenile has not previously been fingerprinted. The taking of fingerprints for a serious misdemeanor offense under chapter 321 or 321A is not required under this section.  [C27, 31, 35, §13417-b1; C39, §13417.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §749.2; C79, 81, §690.2]  93 Acts, ch 115, §1; 96 Acts, ch 1135, §1; 99 Acts, ch 37, §2; 2011 Acts, ch 95, §5  Referred to in §331.322, 331.653, 690.3, 692.15, 726.23  See also §232.148 and 690.4  Nontestimonial identification, chapter 810
IA Code § 690.3 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 690 - CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION|Section 690.3 - Equipment.

690.3 Equipment.   The board of supervisors of each county and the council of each city affected by the provisions of section 690.2 shall furnish all necessary equipment and materials for the carrying out of the provisions of said section.  [C27, 31, 35, §13417-b2; C39, §13417.2; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §749.3; C79, 81, §690.3]
IA Code § 690.4 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 690 - CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION|Section 690.4 - Fingerprints and photographs at institutions.

690.4 Fingerprints and photographs at institutions.   1. The warden of the Iowa medical and classification center and superintendent of the state training school shall take or procure the taking of the fingerprints, and, in the case of the Iowa medical and classification center only, Bertillon photographs of any person received on commitment to their respective institutions, and shall forward such fingerprint records and photographs within ten days after they are taken to the department of public safety. Information obtained from fingerprint cards submitted pursuant to this section may be retained by the department of public safety as criminal history records. If a charge for a serious misdemeanor, aggravated misdemeanor, or felony is brought against a person already in the custody of a law enforcement or correctional agency and the charge is filed in a case separate from the case for which the person was previously arrested or confined, the agency shall take the fingerprints of the person in connection with the new case and submit them to the department of public safety.   2. The wardens and superintendents of all department of corrections facilities shall procure the taking of a photograph showing the facial features of each inmate of a state correctional institution prior to the inmate’s discharge. The photograph shall be placed in the inmate’s file and shall be made available to the Iowa department of public safety upon request.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §749.4; C79, 81, §690.4; 82 Acts, ch 1260, §37]  83 Acts, ch 96, §116, 159; 84 Acts, ch 1184, §18; 86 Acts, ch 1075, §4; 93 Acts, ch 115, §2; 2011 Acts, ch 95, §6  Referred to in §726.23
IA Code § 690.5 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 690 - CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION|Section 690.5 - Administrative sanctions.

690.5 Administrative sanctions.   1. An agency subject to fingerprinting and disposition requirements under this chapter shall take all steps necessary to ensure that all agency officials and employees understand the requirements and shall provide for and impose administrative sanctions, as appropriate, for failure to report as required.   2. If a criminal or juvenile justice agency subject to fingerprinting and disposition requirements fails to comply with the requirements, the commissioner of public safety shall order that the agency’s access to criminal history record information maintained by the repository be denied or restricted until the agency complies with the reporting requirements.   3. The state court administrator shall develop a policy to ensure that court personnel understand and comply with the fingerprinting and disposition requirements and shall also develop sanctions for court personnel who fail to comply with the requirements.  93 Acts, ch 115, §3; 95 Acts, ch 191, §27; 2018 Acts, ch 1041, §127
IA Code § 691.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 691 - STATE CRIMINALISTICS LABORATORY AND MEDICAL EXAMINER|Section 691.1 - Laboratory created.

691.1 Laboratory created.   There is hereby created under the control, direction, and supervision of the commissioner of public safety a state criminalistics laboratory. The commissioner of public safety may assign the criminalistics laboratory to a division or bureau within the public safety department. The laboratory shall, within its capabilities, conduct analyses, comparative studies, fingerprint identification, firearms identification, questioned documents studies, and other studies normally performed by a criminalistics laboratory when requested by a county attorney, medical examiner, or law enforcement agency of this state to aid in any criminal investigation. Agents of the division of criminal investigation may be assigned to the criminalistics laboratory by the commissioner. New employees shall be appointed pursuant to chapter 8A, subchapter IV, and need not qualify as agents for the division of criminal investigation and shall not participate in the peace officers’ retirement plan established pursuant to chapter 97A.  [C71, 73, 75, 77, §749A.1; C79, 81, §691.1]  2003 Acts, ch 145, §276; 2005 Acts, ch 35, §31
IA Code § 691.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 691 - STATE CRIMINALISTICS LABORATORY AND MEDICAL EXAMINER|Section 691.2 - Presumption of qualification — evidence — testimony.

691.2 Presumption of qualification — evidence — testimony.   1. It shall be presumed that any employee or technician of the criminalistics laboratory is qualified or possesses the required expertise to accomplish any analysis, comparison, or identification done by the employee in the course of the employee’s employment in the criminalistics laboratory. Any report, or copy of a report, or the findings of the criminalistics laboratory shall be received in evidence, if determined to be relevant, in any court, preliminary hearing, grand jury proceeding, civil proceeding, administrative hearing, and forfeiture proceeding in the same manner and with the same force and effect as if the employee or technician of the criminalistics laboratory who accomplished the requested analysis, comparison, or identification had testified in person.   2. A party or the party’s attorney may request that an employee or technician testify in person at a criminal trial, administrative hearing, or forfeiture proceeding on behalf of the state or the adverse agency of the state, by notifying the proper county attorney, or in the case of an administrative proceeding the adverse agency, at least ten days before the date of the criminal trial, administrative hearing, or forfeiture proceeding. A party or the party’s attorney in any other civil proceeding may require an employee or technician to testify in person pursuant to a subpoena.  [C71, 73, 75, 77, §749A.2; C79, 81, §691.2]  86 Acts, ch 1147, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1029, §1; 2019 Acts, ch 24, §104
IA Code § 691.3 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 691 - STATE CRIMINALISTICS LABORATORY AND MEDICAL EXAMINER|Section 691.3 - Commissioner to make rules.

691.3 Commissioner to make rules.   The commissioner of public safety shall make rules defining the capabilities of the criminalistics laboratory. The commissioner shall make rules governing the handling of items to be processed by the criminalistics laboratory from the time they are forwarded to the laboratory by a county medical examiner or a city or state law enforcement agency or county sheriff until their return to the forwarder. The rules shall prescribe a method of identifying, forwarding, handling and returning items that will maintain the identity and integrity of the item. An item handled in conformity with the rules shall be presumed to be admissible in evidence as to the period in transit to and from and while in custody of the laboratory without further foundation.  [C71, 73, 75, 77, §749A.3; C79, 81, §691.3]
IA Code § 691.4 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 691 - STATE CRIMINALISTICS LABORATORY AND MEDICAL EXAMINER|Section 691.4 - Copy of finding to defendant.

691.4 Copy of finding to defendant.   The county attorney shall give the accused person, or the accused person’s attorney, after an indictment or county attorney’s information has been returned, a copy of each report of the findings of the criminalistics laboratory conducted in the investigation of the indictable criminal charge against the accused person at the time of arraignment, or if such report is received after arraignment, upon receipt, whether or not such findings are to be used in evidence against the accused person. If such report is not given to the accused or the accused person’s attorney at least four days prior to trial, such fact shall be grounds for a continuance.  [C71, 73, 75, 77, §749A.4; C79, 81, §691.4]  Referred to in §331.756(65)
IA Code § 691.5 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 691 - STATE CRIMINALISTICS LABORATORY AND MEDICAL EXAMINER|Section 691.5 - State medical examiner.

691.5 State medical examiner.   The office and position of state medical examiner is established for administrative purposes within the Iowa department of public health. Other state agencies shall cooperate with the state medical examiner in the use of state-owned facilities when appropriate for the performance of nonadministrative duties of the state medical examiner. The state medical examiner shall be a physician and surgeon or osteopathic physician and surgeon, be licensed to practice medicine in the state of Iowa, and be board certified or eligible to be board certified in anatomic and forensic pathology by the American board of pathology. The state medical examiner shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the director of public health upon the advice of and in consultation with the director of public safety and the governor. The state medical examiner, in consultation with the director of public health, shall be responsible for developing and administering the medical examiner’s budget and for employment of medical examiner staff and assistants. The state medical examiner may be a faculty member of the university of Iowa college of medicine or the college of law at the university of Iowa, and any of the examiner’s assistants or staff may be members of the faculty or staff of the university of Iowa college of medicine or the college of law at the university of Iowa.  [C71, 73, 75, 77, §749A.5; C79, 81, §691.5]  86 Acts, ch 1245, §1602; 99 Acts, ch 208, §6, 14; 2001 Acts, ch 74, §20  Referred to in §124.553, 142C.2, 691.6A
IA Code § 691.6A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 691 - STATE CRIMINALISTICS LABORATORY AND MEDICAL EXAMINER|Section 691.6A - Deputy state medical examiner — creation and duties.

691.6A Deputy state medical examiner — creation and duties.   The position of deputy state medical examiner is created within the office of the state medical examiner. The deputy state medical examiner shall report to and be responsible to the state medical examiner. The deputy state medical examiner shall meet the qualification criteria established in section 691.5 for the state medical examiner and shall be subject to rules adopted by the state medical examiner as provided in section 691.6, subsection 3. The state medical examiner and the deputy state medical examiner shall function as a team, providing peer review as necessary, fulfilling each other’s job responsibilities during times of absence, and working jointly to provide services and education to county medical examiners, law enforcement officials, hospital pathologists, and other individuals and entities. The deputy medical examiner may be, but is not required to be, a full-time salaried faculty member of the department of pathology of the university of Iowa college of medicine. If the medical examiner is a full-time salaried faculty member of the department of pathology of the university of Iowa college of medicine, the Iowa department of public health and the state board of regents shall enter into a chapter 28E agreement to define the activities and functions of the deputy medical examiner, and to allocate deputy medical examiner costs, consistent with the requirements of this section.  99 Acts, ch 208, §8, 14; 2001 Acts, ch 74, §21
IA Code § 691.6B (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 691 - STATE CRIMINALISTICS LABORATORY AND MEDICAL EXAMINER|Section 691.6B - Interagency coordinating council.

691.6B Interagency coordinating council.   1. An interagency coordinating council is created to do all of the following:   a. Advise and consult with the state medical examiner on a range of issues affecting the organization and functions of the office of the state medical examiner and the effectiveness of the medical examiner system in the state.   b. Advise the state medical examiner concerning the assurance of effective coordination of the functions and operations of the office of the state medical examiner with the needs and interests of the departments of public safety and public health.   2. Members of the interagency coordinating council shall include all of the following:   a. The state medical examiner, or when the state medical examiner is not available, the deputy state medical examiner.   b. The commissioner of public safety or the commissioner’s designee.   c. The director of public health or the director’s designee.   d. The governor or the governor’s designee.   e. Representatives from the office of the attorney general, the Iowa county attorneys association, the Iowa medical society, the Iowa association of pathologists, the Iowa association of county medical examiners, the statewide emergency medical system, and the Iowa funeral directors association.   3. The interagency coordinating council shall meet on a regular basis, and shall be organized and function as established by the state medical examiner by rule.  99 Acts, ch 208, §9, 14; 2019 Acts, ch 85, §76
IA Code § 691.6C (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 691 - STATE CRIMINALISTICS LABORATORY AND MEDICAL EXAMINER|Section 691.6C - State medical examiner advisory council.

691.6C State medical examiner advisory council. Repealed by 2019 Acts, ch 85, §77. See §691.6B.
IA Code § 691.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 691 - STATE CRIMINALISTICS LABORATORY AND MEDICAL EXAMINER|Section 691.7 - Commissioner to accept federal or private grants.

691.7 Commissioner to accept federal or private grants.   The commissioner of public safety may accept federal or private funds or grants to aid in the establishment or operation of the state criminalistics laboratory, and the director of public health or the state board of regents may accept federal or private funds or grants to aid in the establishment or operation of the position of state medical examiner.  [C71, 73, 75, 77, §749A.7; C79, 81, §691.7]  86 Acts, ch 1245, §1604; 99 Acts, ch 208, §11, 14
IA Code § 691.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE|Chapter 691 - STATE CRIMINALISTICS LABORATORY AND MEDICAL EXAMINER|Section 691.8 - Governor to transfer laboratory.

691.8 Governor to transfer laboratory.   The governor shall by executive order provide for the transfer of any appropriate laboratory facilities, equipment, and technical personnel of the state to the state criminalistics laboratory if such transfer will more effectively and efficiently aid the investigation of crime.  [C71, 73, 75, 77, §749A.8; C79, 81, §691.8]