(1163) Public health regulation — miscellaneous changes (HF2284) Draft relating to various activities regulated and programs administered by the department of public health, including fetal death certification, and optometry, cosmetology, and barbering licensure.Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: (1)Section 144.31, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:144.31Medical certification fetal death.1.The medical certificationfor a fetal death shall be completed within twenty-fourseventy-two hours after delivery by the physician in attendance at or after delivery except when inquiry is required by the county medical examiner.2.When a fetal death occurs without medical attendance upon the mother at or after delivery or when inquiry is required by the county medical examiner, the medical examiner shall investigate the cause of fetal death and shall complete the medical certification within twenty-fourseventy-two hours after taking charge of the case. The person completing the medical certification of cause of fetal death shall attest to its accuracy either by signature or as authorized by rule. (2)Section 148.3, subsection 1, paragraph a, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code Supplement 2009, is amended to read as follows:AEvidence of a diploma issued by a medical college or college of osteopathic medicine and surgery approved by the board, or other evidence of equivalent medical education approved by the board. The board may accept, in lieu of a diploma from a medical college approved by the board, all of the following: (3)Section 154.1, Code 2009, is amended by adding the following new subsection:NEW SUBSECTION5.Beginning July 1, 2012, all licensed optometrists shall meet requirements established by the board by rule to employ diagnostic and therapeutic pharmaceutical agents for the practice of optometry. All licensees practicing optometry in this state shall have demonstrated qualifications and obtained certification to use diagnostic and therapeutic pharmaceutical agents as a condition of license renewal. (4)Section 157.1, subsection 5, paragraph c, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:c.Removing superfluous hair from the face or body of a person with the use of depilatories, wax, sugars,threading, or tweezing. (5)Section 157.1, subsection 12, paragraph c, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:c.Removing superfluous hair from the body of a person by the use of depilatories, waxing, sugaring, tweezers,threading, or use of any certified laser products or intense pulsed light devices. This excludes the practice of electrology, whereby hair is removed with an electric needle. (6)Section 157.8, subsection 2, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:2.a.The number of instructors for each school shall be based upon total enrollment, with a minimum of twolicensed instructors employed on a full-time basis for up to thirty students and an additionallicensed instructor for each fifteen additional students.A student instructor shall not be used to meet licensed instructor-to-student ratios. However, aA school operated by an area community college prior to September 1, 1982, with only one instructor per fifteen students is not subject to this paragraph and may continue to operate with the ratio of onelicensed instructor to fifteen students.A student instructor may not be used to meet this requirement.b.A school with less than thirty students enrolled may have one licensed instructor on site in the school if offering only clinic services or only theory instruction in a single classroom and less than fifteen students are present. If a school is offering clinic services and theory instruction simultaneously to less than fifteen students, at least two licensed instructors must be on site. Schools with more than thirty students enrolled shall meet the licensed instructor-to-student ratio as provided in paragraph “a”.a.c.A person employed as an instructor in the cosmetology arts and sciences by a licensed school shall be licensed in the practice and shall possess a separate instructor’s license which shall be renewed biennially. An instructor shall file an application with the department on forms prescribed by the board. Prior to licensure, an applicant for an instructor’s license shall have been actively engaged in the practice for a period of two years and complete a course of study required by the board or an instructor’s course at a school for cosmetology arts and sciences, and meet any other requirement established by the board.Requirements for licensure as an instructor shall be determined by the board by rule.b.d.The application for an instructor’s license shall be accompanied by the biennial fee determined pursuant to section 147.80. (7)Section 158.4, subsection 2, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:2.The department may issue a temporary permit for the purpose of demonstrating barbering upon recommendation of the boardwhich allows the applicant to practice barbering for purposes determined by rule. The board shall determine and state its recommendations and the length of time the temporary permit issued under this subsection is valid. (8)REPEAL.Section 152B.13, Code Supplement 2009, is repealed.Approved April 23, 2010
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