Bill Tracker
Allows certain pregnant minors to give consent to prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal 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.
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.
Denies minors the right to consent to vaccinations for a sexually transmitted disease or infection.
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.
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.
Replaces the term "pregnant person" with "pregnant female" throughout multiple statutory sections dealing with the termination of pregnancy, feticide, and related offenses.
Makes state employees eligible for paid parental leave, even if they are not covered by the federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
Makes changes to HMO taxation and makes supplemental appropriations to HHS.
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.
Establishes a grant program to fund a nonprofit sexual assault forensic examination center (SAFE Center).
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.