Senate Resolution 143 - Introduced

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2              BY  BOLKCOM, JOHNSON, RAGAN,
  1  3               SEYMOUR, TINSMAN, and HATCH
  1  4 A Resolution requesting the legislative council to
  1  5    establish an interim committee to conduct a study
  1  6    of issues related to home visiting for families
  1  7    with a newborn child.
  1  8    WHEREAS, newborn support and home visiting programs
  1  9 and services are pillars of the early childhood Iowa
  1 10 strategic plan and important elements for integrating
  1 11 the state's early care, health, and education systems;
  1 12 and
  1 13    WHEREAS, it is recognized that there are existing
  1 14 newborn support and home visiting programs in the
  1 15 state that vary greatly in delivery methods, content
  1 16 of visits, staffing, and target populations, and that
  1 17 parents of newborn children often do not know how to
  1 18 access available community resources; and
  1 19    WHEREAS, there is research and outcome data from
  1 20 other states' models that prove newborn support and
  1 21 home visiting programs reduce child abuse rates; NOW
  1 22 THEREFORE,
  1 23    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the legislative
  1 24 council is requested to establish an interim committee
  1 25 for the 2006 Legislative Interim to conduct a study of
  1 26 issues related to home visiting for families with a
  1 27 newborn child; and
  1 28    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the interim committee
  1 29 should be charged to provide the governor and the
  1 30 general assembly with recommendations for providing a
  2  1 one=time universal home visit for families with a
  2  2 newborn child; and
  2  3    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the interim committee
  2  4 should be charged to consider any of the following
  2  5 information and issues:  statewide prevalence of
  2  6 newborn home visits and support programs, content of
  2  7 home visits, linkages and coordination between
  2  8 programs, competencies for home visitor staffing,
  2  9 professional development, strengths and limitations of
  2 10 programs, gaps and barriers, data collection, and
  2 11 evaluation and outcome measures; and
  2 12    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the legislative
  2 13 council is requested to appoint the representatives of
  2 14 the following interests as nonvoting members in
  2 15 addition to legislators appointed to serve as voting
  2 16 members:  the Iowa department of public health, the
  2 17 department of human services, the department of human
  2 18 rights, the department of education, the Iowa hospital
  2 19 association, the Iowa empowerment board, the community
  2 20 empowerment office of the department of management,
  2 21 the state board of health, family support and home
  2 22 visiting program providers, the business community,
  2 23 consumers, early education providers, and other
  2 24 parties or experts as deemed appropriate by the
  2 25 legislative council; and
  2 26    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the interim committee
  2 27 should be directed to submit a report to the general
  2 28 assembly for consideration during the 2007 Legislative
  2 29 Session regarding the committee's findings and
  2 30 recommendations on issues related to home visiting,
  3  1 including proposed legislation to provide a universal
  3  2 one=time home visit and support for all families in
  3  3 the state with a newborn child.
  3  4 LSB 6609SS 81
  3  5 jp:nh/cf/24.1