HF 2300 (LSB 5715HV (8) 87)

RELATING TO THE PRACTICE OF CERTAIN PROFESSIONS AND  LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES AND PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS  AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE DATE PROVISIONS. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 489.1101, subsection 4, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  “Profession” means the profession of certified public accountancy, architecture, chiropractic, dentistry, physical therapy, practice as a physician assistant, psychology, professional engineering, land surveying, landscape 

architecture, law, medicine and surgery, optometry, osteopathic medicine and surgery, accounting practitioner, podiatry, real estate brokerage, speech pathology, audiology, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, nursing, or marital and family therapy, or mental health counseling, provided that the marital and family therapist or mental health counselor is licensed under chapters 147 and 154D, or social work, provided that the social worker is licensed pursuant to chapter 147 and section 154C.3, subsection 1, paragraph “c”.
    Sec. 2.  Section 489.1102, subsection 2, Code 2018, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  c.  For purposes of this section, marital and family therapy, mental health counseling, psychology, and social work shall be deemed to be professions which could lawfully be practiced in combination by licensed individuals or a partnership of licensed individuals.
    Sec. 3.  Section 496C.2, subsection 4, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  “Profession” means the profession of certified public accountancy, architecture, chiropractic, dentistry, physical therapy, practice as a physician assistant, psychology, marital and family therapy or mental health counseling, provided that the marital and family therapist or mental health counselor is licensed under chapters 147 and 154D, social work, provided that the social worker is licensed pursuant to chapter 147 and section 154C.3, subsection 1, paragraph “c”, professional engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, law, medicine and surgery, optometry, osteopathic medicine and surgery, accounting practitioner, podiatry, real estate brokerage, speech pathology, audiology, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, and the practice of nursing.
    Sec. 4.  Section 496C.4, subsection 2, Code 2018, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  c.  For purposes of this section, marital and family therapy, mental health counseling, psychology, and social work shall be deemed to be professions which could lawfully be practiced in combination by licensed individuals or a partnership of licensed individuals.
    Sec. 5.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.

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LINDA UPMEYER
Speaker of the House

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CHARLES SCHNEIDER
President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2300, Eighty-seventh General Assembly.

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CARMINE BOAL
Chief Clerk of the House

Approved _______________, 2018

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KIM REYNOLDS
Governor