HF 516 (LSB 1695HV (3) 91)

HOUSE FILE 516

BY  COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

(SUCCESSOR TO HF 137)

A BILL FOR

An Act establishing requirements relating to the residency of persons accepted for admission to the state university of Iowa’s colleges of medicine and dentistry and requiring an annual report.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 262.9, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  39.  Adopt a policy requiring that not less than eighty percent of the students who are accepted at the college of medicine in the doctor of medicine program, and who are accepted at the college of dentistry at the state university of Iowa be residents of Iowa or persons who were, prior to applying to such college, enrolled in an eligible postsecondary institution as defined in section 261E.2.
    Sec. 2.  Section 263.2, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   263.2  Degrees —— reports.
   1.  A person shall not be admitted to courses of instruction in the university if the person has not completed the elementary instruction in such branches as are taught in the public or accredited nonpublic schools throughout the state.
   2.  Graduates of the university shall receive degrees or diplomas, or other evidences of distinction such as are usually conferred and granted by universities and are authorized by the state board of regents.
   3.  The university of Iowa, in collaboration with the university hospitals and clinics, shall submit an annual report to the general assembly providing the following information:
   a.  The states in which members of each graduating class from the college of dentistry and the college of medicine’s doctor of medicine program reside during the year immediately following graduation. The information shall be divided by residents of Iowa at the time of application to the college and nonresidents at the time of application to the college.
   b.  The states in which the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics primary care and specialty residents reside in the year following completion of medical residency and whether following residency such residents accepted fellowships. The information shall be divided by primary care and various areas of specialty, and whether the medical residents were residents of Iowa prior to applying for admission at an undergraduate college or university, received a baccalaureate degree from a postsecondary institution in Iowa, or graduated from a medical school in Iowa, whether or not the medical residents were residents of the state at the time of acceptance into the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics’ residency programs and, if any residents accepted fellowships following residency, the states in which the fellowships are offered and the areas of specialty under the fellowships.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill requires the state board of regents to adopt a policy requiring that not less than 80 percent of the students accepted at the colleges of medicine and dentistry at the university of Iowa be residents of Iowa or persons who, prior to applying to the college of medicine or dentistry, were enrolled in a community college in Iowa, an accredited private institution in Iowa, or a regents university. 
   The bill also requires the university of Iowa, in collaboration with the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics (UIHC), to submit an annual report to the general assembly with information relating to the residency of graduates of the colleges of dentistry and medicine, and UIHC residency programs and fellowships post-graduation and medical residency. The annual report must include information regarding which states the graduates and the medical residents moved to in the year following graduation or completion of medical residency, and other information as detailed in the bill.