Bills in Committee

Health and Human Services (H)

Bills under consideration and review by committee.

Bill	Bill Title
SF 2369	A bill for an act relating to a person’s county of residence as the basis for determining financial responsibility for certain human services programs and treatment or support services. (Formerly SSB 3196.)
SF 2300	A bill for an act requiring the department of human services to facilitate a workgroup study relating to certain mandatory reporter training and certification requirements. (Formerly SSB 3127.)
SF 2281	A bill for an act relating to the prerequisites for and prohibition against an abortion related to the testing for, and following the detection of, a fetal heartbeat, providing for a repeal, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 3143.)
SF 458	A bill for an act relating to the establishment of a psychiatric practitioner loan repayment program. (Formerly SF 285.)
SF 2	A bill for an act relating to the establishment of a state family planning services program, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2453	A bill for an act relating to continuity of care and nonmedical switching by health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 516.)
HF 2434	A bill for an act to ensure appropriate discharge planning and post-hospital services for a patient discharged to the patient’s residence. (Formerly HF 2289.)
HF 2428	A bill for an act relating to eligibility requirements under the Medicaid program. (Formerly HSB 666.)
HF 2386	A bill for an act relating to home health provider reimbursement under the Medicaid program.
HF 2376	A bill for an act relating to the transfer of the mental health and disability services regions to the department of public health.
HF 2353	A bill for an act establishing an interim study committee relating to child welfare. (Formerly HSB 635.)
HF 2352	A bill for an act establishing the healthy Iowa program and including effective date provisions.
HF 2347	A bill for an act relating to the involuntary commitment or hospitalization of a person with a serious mental impairment or a substance-related disorder who is taken into immediate custody.
HF 2339	A bill for an act relating to cigarettes, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products, including taxation of such products.
HF 2331	A bill for an act relating to mental health services, including the provision of intensive residential service homes for persons with serious and persistent mental illness under Medicaid managed care and out-of-state placements for persons with mental illness.
HF 2309	A bill for an act relating to reimbursement for dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries receiving the Medicare hospice benefit in a nursing facility. (Formerly HF 2156.) Effective 7-1-18.
HF 2293	A bill for an act relating to private instruction by adding reporting requirements and requiring school districts to conduct health and safety visits for children placed under competent private instruction, independent private instruction, or private instruction.
HF 2292	A bill for an act relating to Medicaid managed care, including process and contract requirements, and oversight.
HF 2291	A bill for an act relating to Medicaid managed care oversight and improvement.
HF 2290	A bill for an act relating to the practice of polysomnography. (Formerly HSB 567.)
HF 2289	A bill for an act providing for the designation of a caregiver relating to a patient’s inpatient stay at a hospital. (See HF 2434.)
HF 2288	A bill for an act creating a foster care children and adopted children bill of rights and entitlements.
HF 2264	A bill for an act relating to Medicaid managed care oversight including issues related to network adequacy, home and community-based services waiver services, member eligibility, and appeals processes.
HF 2263	A bill for an act relating to the certificate of need process applicable to the planning and delivery of health services.
HF 2245	A bill for an act relating to maintaining dangerous weapons at a child care facility or when transporting a child receiving care from a child care facility, and providing penalties.
HF 2244	A bill for an act relating to the Medicaid program, including long-term services and supports, integrated health homes, capitation and reimbursement rates, and oversight, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2227	A bill for an act relating to the recognition of life at conception, and providing for contingent implementation.
HF 2212	A bill for an act relating to the implementation of a centralized direct care workforce database.
HF 2211	A bill for an act relating to county funding of services for persons with substance-related disorders and co-occurring mental health and substance-related disorders and including effective date provisions.
HF 2206	A bill for an act to require radon testing and mitigation in public schools and including applicability provisions.
HF 2205	A bill for an act relating to the use of step therapy protocols, including step therapy override protocols, under the Medicaid program.
HF 2178	A bill for an act relating to health insurance coverage for hearing aids for covered persons age eighteen and younger and including applicability provisions.
HF 2177	A bill for an act relating to the planning, development, and implementation of a centralized direct care workforce database.
HF 2163	A bill for an act recognizing the rights and protections accorded each life from the moment of fetal heartbeat detection, prohibiting the performance of an abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected, providing for licensee discipline, and providing a repeal.
HF 2162	A bill for an act relating to the distribution of certain funds for abortions.
HF 2142	A bill for an act relating to the provision of integrated health homes for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness under Medicaid managed care, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2141	A bill for an act relating to telecoil assistive devices and providing applicability dates.
HF 2126	A bill for an act relating to stroke-related care including the designation of comprehensive and primary stroke centers and acute stroke-ready hospitals, and stroke transport protocols.
HF 2104	A bill for an act relating to the termination of Medicaid managed care contracts, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2099	A bill for an act relating to administration of the meningococcal vaccine by a licensed pharmacist.
HF 2088	A bill for an act prohibiting the use of a patient’s protected health information by a hospital for fundraising communications.
HF 2053	A bill for an act relating to income and resource disregards used to determine family investment program eligibility.
HF 2052	A bill for an act relating to eligible providers under the state family planning services program.
HF 2032	A bill for an act relating to subacute mental health care facilities and the psychiatric bed tracking system.
HF 2010	A bill for an act relating to medical specialty board recertification and the practice of medicine in this state.
HF 2009	A bill for an act relating to the disclosure of personal identifying information of prescribing practitioners contained in the information program for drug prescribing and dispensing.
HF 618	A bill for an act relating to opioid abuse prevention and treatment by creating an opioid abuse prevention and treatment workgroup and excise tax on the gross receipts of certain controlled substances sold at wholesale and providing for the transfer of the excise tax revenues to a newly created fund.
HF 605	A bill for an act relating to consideration of an emergency medical services medical director as a state employee under the volunteer health care provider program.
HF 593	A bill for an act authorizing mental health professionals to perform certain functions relating to persons with substance-related disorders and persons with mental illness. (Formerly HF 319.) Effective 7-1-17.
HF 577	A bill for an act relating to exemptions from disciplinary action for persons licensed to practice health-related professions based on their treatment of Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 112.) Effective 3-23-17.
HF 548	A bill for an act relating to continuous quality improvement for the care of individuals with stroke. (Formerly HF 274.) Effective 7-1-17.
HF 546	A bill for an act relating to the delivery of, access to, and coordination and continuity of certain mental health, disability, and substance use disorder services. (Formerly HSB 156.)
HF 544	A bill for an act including personal degradation as a form of dependent adult abuse by caretakers in facilities and programs regulated by the department of inspections and appeals, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 146.) Effective 3-30-17.
HF 531	A bill for an act relating to oversight of public assistance programs, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 172.) Effective 3-30-17.
HF 492	A bill for an act requiring health care benefit coverage for certain preventive services, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
HF 491	A bill for an act relating to preexisting condition exclusions in certain coverage for health care services, and including effective and applicability date provisions.
HF 490	A bill for an act prohibiting the use of gender in determining premium rates or assessments for certain insurance policies, and including penalties and applicability dates.
HF 470	A bill for an act relating to subsidized guardianships. (Formerly HF 260.)
HF 437	A bill for an act relating to the provision of supported community living services under Medicaid home and community-based services waivers, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
HF 427	A bill for an act relating to reimbursement under the Medicaid program for ambulance services.
HF 426	A bill for an act regarding the supervision of physician assistants by physicians and providing for emergency rulemaking authority, and including effective date provisions.
HF 425	A bill for an act relating to the payment of costs for a psychiatric evaluation of a defendant in a criminal proceeding.
HF 424	A bill for an act prohibiting mental health providers from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with a patient of any age, and making penalties applicable.
HF 423	A bill for an act relating to the delegation of authority by a psychologist to perform certain services.
HF 422	A bill for an act relating to certificates of need.
HF 412	A bill for an act relating to expansion of the newborn metabolic screening to include lysosomal storage disorders.
HF 395	A bill for an act relating to the regulation of tanning facilities and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 143.)
HF 386	A bill for an act relating to the provision and financing of long-term care services in subacute mental health care facilities for persons with serious and persistent mental illness.
HF 385	A bill for an act modifying the rural Iowa advanced registered nurse practitioner and physician assistant loan repayment program and fund and making occupational therapy students eligible for the program.
HF 384	A bill for an act relating to licensure and inspection requirements for nursing facilities and assisted living programs that prepare meals for off-site delivery.
HF 355	A bill for an act relating to adoption, including access to adoption records for adult adoptees.
HF 354	A bill for an act requiring the payment of certain out-of-state education expenses for students requiring medical treatment and including effective date provisions.
HF 345	A bill for an act relating to elderly persons with aggressive or psychiatric behaviors in long-term care facilities.
HF 344	A bill for an act relating to child care assistance provider reimbursement rates and the care of children in licensed get well centers.
HF 343	A bill for an act relating to county funding of mental health and disability services and the mental health and disability services property tax levy and including effective date provisions.
HF 342	A bill for an act relating to county funding of mental health and disability services and the mental health and disability services property tax levy and including effective date provisions.
HF 321	A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance, including income eligibility and waiting list guidelines and copayment requirements.
HF 318	A bill for an act establishing a home modification grant program and making appropriations.
HF 305	A bill for an act relating to the prescribing of biological products and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 38.) Effective 7-1-17.
HF 298	A bill for an act relating to abortions including prohibiting abortions after a certain postfertilization age with certain exceptions, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.
HF 297	A bill for an act relating to the protection of life beginning at conception, and including effective date provisions.
HF 292	A bill for an act relating to parental responsibilities including those related to custody and support and providing penalties.
HF 279	A bill for an act relating to child care provider reimbursement rates under the state child care assistance program.
HF 275	A bill for an act relating to a coordinated health care workforce recruitment and retention effort.
HF 273	A bill for an act relating to income eligibility, waiting list guidelines, and child care provider reimbursement rates under the state child care assistance program and including effective date provisions.
HF 261	A bill for an act relating to the elimination of the exemption from immunization of a person related to conflicts with the tenets and practices of a recognized religious denomination.
HF 259	A bill for an act relating to adjudicating newborns testing positive for drugs at birth as a child in need of assistance or as part of a family in need of assistance.
HF 258	A bill for an act relating to required asset, income, and identity verification for the Medicaid program, and including effective date provisions.
HF 257	A bill for an act relating to facilities licensed to provide inpatient psychiatric treatment and services and the psychiatric bed tracking system.
HF 237	A bill for an act relating to the distribution of certain funds for abortions.
HF 236	A bill for an act relating to the distribution of certain funds for abortions, and including effective date provisions.
HF 235	A bill for an act relating to the restrictions on distribution of certain public funds for abortion.
HF 233	A bill for an act relating to the use of step therapy protocols for prescription drugs by health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 26.) Effective 7-1-17.
HF 209	A bill for an act relating to the presence of a child near certain dangerous substances for purposes of declaring a child a child in need of assistance and establishing the existence of child abuse.
HF 208	A bill for an act relating to the definition of child abuse and certain activities of a person responsible for the care of a child involving a dangerous substance.
HF 199	A bill for an act relating to the compassionate use of medical cannabis Act, reclassifying marijuana, including tetrahydrocannabinols, from a schedule I controlled substance to a schedule II controlled substance, providing for civil and criminal penalties and fees, and including effective date provisions.
HF 198	A bill for an act relating to the creation of the medical cannabis Act and providing for criminal penalties and fees.
HF 190	A bill for an act relating to department of human services contracts for local administration of the disaster case management grant fund and program.
HF 172	A bill for an act relating to and making an appropriation for reductions in the waiting lists for all Medicaid home and community-based services waivers.
HF 144	A bill for an act relating to the buying or selling of or the experimentation on a fetus or bodily remains resulting from an abortion, providing penalties, and including effective dates.
HF 125	A bill for an act relating to the transportation of persons with a substance-related disorder or a mental illness.
HF 120	A bill for an act relating to a cytomegalovirus public health initiative, and providing an appropriation.
HF 119	A bill for an act relating to the obtaining of a copy of an original birth certificate by an adult adoptee, and providing for fees.
HF 111	A bill for an act relating to the regulation of tanning facilities and making penalties applicable.
HF 95	A bill for an act relating to requirements for guaranteed issue of Medicare supplement coverage to certain eligible persons.
HF 94	A bill for an act relating to county attorney duties when representing the department of human services in juvenile court.
HF 93	A bill for an act relating to sexual orientation change efforts and making penalties applicable.
HF 68	A bill for an act relating to child placement by requiring the consideration of the stability of the child’s home in a determination concerning the removal of the child.
HF 51	A bill for an act relating to the income eligibility requirements for state child care assistance.
HF 32	A bill for an act relating to health data collected and used by the department of public health.
HF 31	A bill for an act relating to the storing of residual newborn screening specimens, and including effective date provisions.
HF 22	A bill for an act relating to the payment of fees and expenses of county medical examiners who perform autopsies or conduct investigations of decedents who are out-of-state residents.
HF 11	A bill for an act relating to children in need of assistance whose parents, guardians, or custodians are unable to provide needed mental health treatment.
HF 7	A bill for an act relating to an exemption from required vaccinations based upon personal conviction.