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Iowa Psychological Association
Alcohol/Drugs/Tobacco

Establishes the Opioid Epidemic Response Advisory Council.

House Appropriations Committee
Behavioral/Mental Health

Allows a court to order treatment for a person experiencing psychiatric deterioration.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Allows a physician's assistant or ARNP to testify at an involuntary commitment hearing.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires an individual who has been involuntarily committed be referred to an ASO prior to discharge.

House Floor

Requires the medical assistance advisory council to cover applied behavior analysis services.

House Floor

Allows any interested person to file an involuntary commitment substance abuse proceeding application in any county.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Strikes the requirement a substance use evaluation occur prior to sentencing for people  convicted of OWI.

House Floor
Broadband/Technology

Directs DOE and HHS to convene a working group to examine research related to the impact of school-provided technology on students.

Senate Floor
Childcare/Child Welfare

Makes changes related to services and support for youth, including treatment, physical assessments, and behavioral health evaluations (Division I), exemption from children's residential facility certification (Division II), juvenile court services (Division III), and Hawki eligibility (Division IV).

 

Senate & House Floors

Makes changes related to foster care.

House Floor

Directs DOE and HHS to convene a working group to examine research related to the impact of school-provided technology on students.

Senate Floor
Crime/Courts

Makes changes to current law regarding assault on a health care provider.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Makes changes to probation requirements.

House Floor

Allows two-way remote/video court testimony for children and individuals with disabilities.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Makes provisions related to human trafficking, including civil statutes of limitations, annual stakeholder meetings, deposition of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution. Includes a new $750,000 appropriation for a joint unit to prosecute and investigate human trafficking. 

House Floor

Places limitations on discovery and procedure related to a claim for post conviction relief. 

House Judiciary Committee
Dental

Requires dental carriers to disclose to providers that a plan is state-regulated.

House Floor
Education

Requires schools to assemble multidisciplinary threat assessment teams to identify students, who are to be flagged for services and other appropriate interventions.

Senate & House Floors

Modifies school concussion policies by expanding the type of licensed health care provider who may determine when a student should be removed from school sports. 

House Floor

Requires schools to have at least one school employee who is trained to administer or assist with self-administration of a seizure medication.

Senate & House Floors

Makes changes to required concussion and brain injury training for coaches.

House Floor

Makes changes to several education laws.

House Floor

Prohibits schools from taking disciplinary actions regarding use/non-use of legal names or personal pronouns.

Senate Floor

Modifies provisions related to shared operational functions and school district supplementary weighting.

Senate Floor
Government

Increases salaries for state elected officials.

Senate Floor
Health Care

Requires University of Iowa to give priority in awarding residencies to Iowa residents.

House Floor

Establishes the dietician licensure compact.

House Floor

Implements the Governor's rural health proposal, including hub and spoke models, merging health professional loan repayment programs, expanding residency and fellowship opportunities, moving certificate of need decisions to Iowa HHS, and requiring Iowa HHS to rebid the Iowa Health Information Network.

House Appropriations Committee

Requires a health insurer to respond to a provider's request for credentialing within 56 calendar days.

House Floor

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

Senate Floor

Prohibits the board of pharmacy and professional boards from restricting the prescribing authority of pharmacists and other practitioners.

Senate Floor

Requires all health care providers to establish and disclose the discounted cash price the provider will accept for certain services.

House Commerce Committee
Insurance

Makes changes to health insurance coverage requirements for the treatment of autism spectrum disorders.

Senate Commerce Committee

Requires a utilization review organization to respond to a request for a prior authorization within a certain time period.

Senate Floor with Companion
Medicaid

Requires individuals with health insurance through the Iowa Health and Wellness Plan to work and addresses the "marriage penalty" in the Medicaid for Employed Persons with Disabilities (MEPD) program.

Senate & House Floors
Other

Makes provisions related to veterans services and benefits.

House Floor

Enhances penalties for assaults against first responders, law enforcement, correctional officers and health care workers, and adds juvenile detention staff.

House Floor

Makes changes to sex and gender definitions under the Iowa civil rights act, in collecting vital statistics, and school curriculum.

Signed
Pharmacy/Prescriptions

Makes provisions related to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, and prescription drugs.

Senate & House Floors
Public Health

Makes changes to HHS, including administrative services organization (ASO), child foster care, child and dependent adult abuse, MH/DS services und, HMO premium taxes, and more. 

Senate & House Floors
Taxes

Creates an individual tax credit for purchasing firearm safety devices.

House Ways & Means Committee

Creates a premarital counseling tax credit.

House Ways & Means Committee
Workforce

Makes changes to paid leave for government employees.

House Floor
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