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Realigns the health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services.
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).
Makes changes related to taxation and regulation of alternative nicotine and vape products.
Allows parents, legal guardians, or custodians to commit a minor for substance use or mental health treatment without requiring judicial approval.
Removes barriers to accessing subacute mental health treatment facilities, adds subacute beds to the psychiatric bed tracking system, and removes restrictive limits.
Realigns the health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services.
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.
Appropriates $38.9 million for fiscal year 2027, which begins on July 1, 2026. This is decrease of $1.4 million.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Strikes numerous provisions from Iowa law that require or reference affirmative action, race, gender, or citizenship in state employment, contracting, and educational programs.
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.
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.
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.
Prohibits noncompete clauses in employment contracts between physicians and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
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.
Allows certain pregnant minors to give consent to prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care.
Updates certificate of need process and regulates health insurance utilization review, whether done internally or through a utilization review organization.
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).
Realigns the health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services.
Makes changes to HMO taxation and makes supplemental appropriations to HHS.
Changes the title 'physician assistant' to 'physician associate.'
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.
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.
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.
Prohibits insurance companies from discriminating against living organ donors.
Updates certificate of need process and regulates health insurance utilization review, whether done internally or through a utilization review organization.
Makes changes to HMO taxation and makes supplemental appropriations to HHS.
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.
Establishes a new Early Childhood and Family Services system under the Department of Health and Human Services.
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).
Requires the board of medicine to issue an emeritus license for a physician who is at least 60 years of age and is supervising residents.
Authorizes Iowa to join the interstate Athletic Trainer Compact, making Iowa the 7th state to join.
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.
Denies minors the right to consent to vaccinations for a sexually transmitted disease or infection.
Makes changes in the process for Iowans accessing medications that induce an abortion (mifepristone, misoprostol), creates private cause of action for violations, and repeals the fetal heartbeat law.
Makes changes to HMO taxation and makes supplemental appropriations to HHS.
Requires DOT to verify the citizenship and immigration status of all applicants for driver's licenses or nonoperator identification cards who do not provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
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.