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Iowa Behavioral Health Association
Aging Services

Realigns the health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services.

Signed
Alcohol/Drugs/Tobacco

Doubles the number of licensed medical cannabidiol dispensaries and allows residents of other states to hold a patient card.

Signed

Enacts wide-ranging reforms across healthcare, education, and nutrition, including mandatory nutrition/metabolic health continuing education for physicians, required nutrition coursework for medical school graduates, new restrictions on food dyes and additives in school meals and the summer EBT program, over-the-counter access to ivermectin, digital device time limits in elementary schools, reintroduces the Presidential Fitness Test, and Iowa's adoption of the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PsyPACT).

Signed

Makes changes related to taxation and regulation of alternative nicotine and vape products.

Signed
Behavioral/Mental Health

Allows parents, legal guardians, or custodians to commit a minor for substance use or mental health treatment without requiring judicial approval.

Signed

Removes barriers to accessing subacute mental health treatment facilities, adds subacute beds to the psychiatric bed tracking system, and removes restrictive limits.

Signed

Revises the Iowa Rules of Criminal Procedure regarding commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity.

Signed

Realigns the health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services.

Signed
Broadband/Technology

Establishes requirements and guidelines for conversational AI to make sure they are not encouraging harm to the people using them or providing inappropriate content to minors.

Signed
Budgets

Appropriates $715.1 million for the public safety, public defense, emergency management, justice, and victim services programs and agencies for fiscal year 2027, which begins July 1, 2026. This is an increase of $12 million.  

Signed

Appropriates $2.56 billion to fund various health, veterans, and human services (including Medicaid) for fiscal year 2027, which begins on July 1, 2026. This is a $3.1 million increase. 

Signed / Line-Item Vetoed

Appropriates $1.042 billion to the Department for the Blind, Department of Education, Board of Regents, and Department of Workforce Development for fiscal year 2027, which begins July 1, 2026. This is an increase of $10.5 million.

Signed / Line-Item Vetoed

Changes standing (automatic) appropriations, makes other appropriations left out of other budgets, fixes mistakes in other bills, and drops in changes that were part of last-minute negotiations.

Signed / Line-Item Vetoed

Allocates $193.6 million from the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund (RIIF) and Technology Reinvestment Fund for fiscal year 2027, which begins on July 1, 2026. Money in these funds comes from taxes on gambling.

Signed / Line-Item Vetoed
Childcare/Child Welfare

Exempts situations in which a parent or legal guardian is unable to access appropriate behavioral or mental health care for their child from being classified as child abuse when declaring a "child in need of assistance," provided reasonable attempts have been made to secure such care. 

Signed
Crime/Courts

Revises the Iowa Rules of Criminal Procedure regarding commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity.

Signed
Education

Makes falsely claiming academic degrees, credentials, and professional licensure for purposes of employment or personal gain a fraudulent practice.

Signed

Mandates use of federal e-verify and SAVE systems for employment and professional licensure eligibility verification across multiple sectors, including education, public employment, and professional licensing.

Signed
Gambling

Makes several provisions related to gambling and specialized pediatric palliative residential care facilities.

Signed
Government

Makes changes to administrative rules relating to uniform rules on agency procedures.

Signed
Health Care

Gives health care providers and institutions the right to not participate in a health care service that violates the provider's or institution's conscience.

Signed

Regulates how cost sharing is applied for enrollees in group insurance and accident/health insurance who have health savings accounts and qualified high-deductible health plans.

Signed

Prohibits health insurance carriers from denying coverage for health care services or imposing higher out-of-pocket costs solely because a referral was made by an out-of-network primary care provider.

Signed

Updates certificate of need process and regulates health insurance utilization review, whether done internally or through a utilization review organization.

Signed

Enacts wide-ranging reforms across healthcare, education, and nutrition, including mandatory nutrition/metabolic health continuing education for physicians, required nutrition coursework for medical school graduates, new restrictions on food dyes and additives in school meals and the summer EBT program, over-the-counter access to ivermectin, digital device time limits in elementary schools, reintroduces the Presidential Fitness Test, and Iowa's adoption of the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PsyPACT).

Signed

Realigns the health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services.

Signed

Makes changes to HMO taxation and makes supplemental appropriations to HHS.

Signed

Makes several provisions related to gambling and specialized pediatric palliative residential care facilities.

Signed
Immigration/Refugees

Mandates use of federal e-verify and SAVE systems for employment and professional licensure eligibility verification across multiple sectors, including education, public employment, and professional licensing.

Signed
Insurance

Regulates how cost sharing is applied for enrollees in group insurance and accident/health insurance who have health savings accounts and qualified high-deductible health plans.

Signed

Prohibits health insurance carriers from denying coverage for health care services or imposing higher out-of-pocket costs solely because a referral was made by an out-of-network primary care provider.

Signed

Updates certificate of need process and regulates health insurance utilization review, whether done internally or through a utilization review organization.

Signed
Medicaid

Makes changes to HMO taxation and makes supplemental appropriations to HHS.

Signed
Other

Makes a number of changes to eligibility for various public assistance programs (FIP, SNAP, Medicaid, childcare assistance), requiring legal status/citizenship checks and aligning changes made in "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (aka HR 1).  Also makes it nearly impossible to end Medicaid managed care. 

Signed

Establishes a new Early Childhood and Family Services system under the Department of Health and Human Services.

Signed
Professional Licensing/Scope of Practice

Enacts wide-ranging reforms across healthcare, education, and nutrition, including mandatory nutrition/metabolic health continuing education for physicians, required nutrition coursework for medical school graduates, new restrictions on food dyes and additives in school meals and the summer EBT program, over-the-counter access to ivermectin, digital device time limits in elementary schools, reintroduces the Presidential Fitness Test, and Iowa's adoption of the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PsyPACT).

Signed

Mandates use of federal e-verify and SAVE systems for employment and professional licensure eligibility verification across multiple sectors, including education, public employment, and professional licensing.

Signed
Taxes

Makes changes to HMO taxation and makes supplemental appropriations to HHS.

Signed
Voting/Elections

Mandates use of federal e-verify and SAVE systems for employment and professional licensure eligibility verification across multiple sectors, including education, public employment, and professional licensing.

Signed
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