Senate Study Bill 1183 



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            STATE GOVERNMENT BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON CONNOLLY)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act requiring a certificate of need for the relocation of an
  2    institutional health facility within a county.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1639SC 82
  5 nh/cf/24

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 135.61, subsection 18, paragraph b,
  1  2 Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    b.  Relocation of an institutional health facility,
  1  4 including relocation within a county.
  1  5                           EXPLANATION
  1  6    This bill requires an institutional health facility to
  1  7 apply to the department of public health for a certificate of
  1  8 need for relocation of the facility within the county.
  1  9    Current law prohibits a new or changed institutional health
  1 10 service from being offered or developed in the state without
  1 11 prior application to the department for and receipt of a
  1 12 certificate of need.  A new or changed institutional health
  1 13 service includes relocation of an institutional health
  1 14 facility.  Pursuant to current departmental rules, a facility
  1 15 is relocated if a facility located in one county is replaced
  1 16 with a facility located in another county.  An "institutional
  1 17 health facility" means a hospital, a health care facility, an
  1 18 organized outpatient health facility, an outpatient surgical
  1 19 facility, a community mental health facility, or a birth
  1 20 center.
  1 21 LSB 1639SC 82
  1 22 nh:rj/cf/24