Bills in Committee

Health and Human Services (S)

Bills under consideration and review by committee.

Bill	Bill Title
SF 2390	A bill for an act relating to health care reform in Iowa including the Iowa choice health care coverage program; continuation of dependent health care coverage; the bureau of health insurance oversight; medical homes; prevention and chronic care management; the Iowa health information technology system; long-term living and patient autonomy; health care quality, consumer information, cost-containment, and health care access; the certificate of need program; and health care transparency; and including an applicability provision. (Formerly SSB 3140.)
SF 2296	A bill for an act relating to nurse staffing levels in hospitals and providing a penalty.
SF 2290	A bill for an act relating to the authority of certain licensed physicians, licensed psychiatrists, psychiatric advanced registered nurse practitioners, and physician assistants regarding the evaluation and treatment of certain persons including chronic substance abusers and persons with mental illness, and making a penalty applicable.
SF 2284	A bill for an act relating to an assault that occurs between persons in an intimate relationship and the crime of domestic abuse assault and making penalties applicable.
SF 2190	A bill for an act relating to the filing of an examining physician's report prior to involuntary hospitalization hearings for chronic substance abusers and mentally ill persons.
SF 2158	A bill for an act relating to nutrition labeling of food by chain restaurants having more than twenty locations and providing a penalty.
SF 2146	A bill for an act relating to the criteria for cases of founded child abuse placed on the central child abuse registry.
SF 2128	A bill for an act establishing a therapeutic recreation board, requiring the licensure of therapeutic recreation specialists, and providing for fees and penalties.
SF 2119	A bill for an act providing for the prohibition of human cloning, providing penalties, and providing for a repeal.
SF 2055	A bill for an act authorizing a chief primary health clinician to file certain periodic court reports on chronic substance abusers and persons with mental illness who do not require full-time placement in a treatment facility.
SF 2050	A bill for an act relating to reimbursements under medical assistance home and community-based services waivers for the elderly. (See SF 2110.)
SF 2047	A bill for an act relating to the annual adjustment of the personal needs allowance for residents of certain institutional health facilities.
SF 2034	A bill for an act relating to transfer procedures for and compensation of health care providers not participating in IowaCare. (See SF 2324.)
SF 2029	A bill for an act providing for county eligibility for state payment of certain mental health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities services funding and providing effective and retroactive applicability dates. (See SF 2054.)
SF 478	A bill for an act providing for the registration of practitioners of the healing arts, providing remedies, and making an appropriation. (Formerly SF 124.)
SF 471	A bill for an act relating to the regulation of adoption facilitators. (Formerly SSB 1325.)
SF 459	A bill for an act replacing the interstate compact on the placement of children with the interstate compact for the placement of children, making a penalty applicable, and providing a contingent effective date. (Formerly SSB 1136.)
SF 382	A bill for an act requiring insurance coverage benefits for treatment of mental illness and providing an effective date. (Formerly SSB 1177.)
SF 378	A bill for an act requiring certain health care providers and temporary nurse agencies to have or supply documentation that criminal record and abuse registry checks have been performed on individuals who provide nursing services on a temporary basis.
SF 372	A bill for an act authorizing the use of advance directives for mental health care and providing penalties.
SF 342	A bill for an act relating to children who are subject to a court order for a temporary or permanent out-of-home placement by providing for visitation or ongoing interaction between the children and siblings. (See SF 480.)
SF 338	A bill for an act relating to the administrative modification of a child support order. (Formerly SSB 1035.)
SF 327	A bill for an act relating to the determination of the reimbursement rate for hospitals under the medical assistance program.
SF 322	A bill for an act relating to eligibility requirements for the low-income home energy assistance program and the Iowa affordable heating program based on payment of a child support obligation.
SF 316	A bill for an act creating an Alzheimer's disease task force. (See SF 489.)
SF 290	A bill for an act relating to adult mental health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities services by shifting responsibility for such services from the counties to the state, revising county levy authority for such services, and providing effective and applicability dates.
SF 281	A bill for an act relating to the licensing of naturopathic physicians.
SF 217	A bill for an act relating to emergency medical services training. (See SF 467.)
SF 214	A bill for an act requiring the dissemination of a medical assistance summary notice to all program recipients.
SF 210	A bill for an act establishing a program for providing home visits for all families in the state with a newborn child. (See SF 481.)
SF 190	A bill for an act requiring certain providers under the state child care assistance program to be regulated by the department of human services.
SF 184	A bill for an act relating to hotel, food establishment, and food processing plant licensing and inspection, providing fees, making penalties applicable, making an appropriation, and providing an effective date. (See SF 386.)
SF 174	A bill for an act relating to body piercing, body modification, and tattooing, and providing penalties. (See SF 462.)
SF 165	A bill for an act relating to creation of a program to address waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicaid program.
SF 151	A bill for an act relating to the bases for exemptions to estate recovery under the medical assistance program.
SF 124	A bill for an act establishing an Iowa health freedom Act and providing remedies. (See SF 478.)
SF 123	A bill for an act relating to the personal needs allowance for residents of certain facilities. (See SF 359.)
SF 115	A bill for an act creating the Iowa stem cell research and cures initiative, and providing penalties. (See SF 162.)
SF 111	A bill for an act providing for online prescription drug retail price comparison.
SF 89	A bill for an act establishing a recreational therapy board, requiring the licensure of recreational therapists, and providing for fees and penalties.
SF 72	A bill for an act providing for county eligibility for state payment of certain mental health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities services allowed growth funding and providing effective and retroactive applicability dates. (See SF 169.)
SF 66	A bill for an act requiring licensed and registered child care facilities to identify how financial responsibility for injuries is addressed.
SF 52	A bill for an act relating to services for which reimbursement may be provided under a medical assistance home and community-based services waiver for the elderly. (See SF 252.)
SF 33	A bill for an act relating to grandparent and great-grandparent visitation. (See SF 264.)
SF 27	A bill for an act creating a program to provide financial assistance for postsecondary education for young adults who were involved with the state's foster care program. (See SF 259.)
SF 2	A bill for an act to allow a physician assistant to examine a resident in a nursing facility.
HF 2648	A bill for an act relating to criminal and abuse records of prospective and current employees of licensed hospitals and health care facilities and certain health-related programs and services and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 637)