Senate File 206 SENATE FILE BY SCHUERER Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act exempting birth centers from the certificate of need 2 process. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2454SS 80 5 pf/cl/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 135.61, subsection 14, paragraph f, 1 2 Code 2003, is amended by striking the paragraph. 1 3 Sec. 2. Section 135.61, subsection 20, Code 2003, is 1 4 amended to read as follows: 1 5 20. "Organized outpatient health facility" means a 1 6 facility, not part of a hospital, organized and operated to 1 7 provide health care to noninstitutionalized and nonhomebound 1 8 persons on an outpatient basis; it does not include birth 1 9 centers, private offices or clinics of individual physicians, 1 10 dentists or other practitioners, or groups of practitioners, 1 11 who are health care providers. 1 12 Sec. 3. Section 135.63, subsection 2, Code 2003, is 1 13 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 1 14 NEW PARAGRAPH. q. A birth center or services provided by 1 15 a birth center that is not affiliated with a birthing 1 16 hospital. 1 17 EXPLANATION 1 18 This bill exempts birth centers and services provided by 1 19 birth centers that are not affiliated with birthing hospitals 1 20 from the certificate of need process. The bill specifically 1 21 excludes birth centers from the definition of an "organized 1 22 outpatient health facility" which facilities are subject to 1 23 the certificate of need process. 1 24 LSB 2454SS 80 1 25 pf/cl/14 1 26 1 27 1 28 1 29 1 30 1 31 1 32 1 33 1 34 1 35