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Alcohol/Drugs/Tobacco

Expands the regulatory framework for alternative nicotine products and vapor products.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Enacts changes across health-related fields.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Raises taxes on tobacco products and imposes a new tax on vape and hemp products.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee
Behavioral/Mental Health

Establishes chatbot regulations requirements and penalties.

House Health & Human Services Committee
Broadband/Technology

Establishes chatbot regulations requirements and penalties.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Establishes requirements and guidelines for chatbots.

Senate Technology Committee

Makes provisions related to utilization review organizations.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee
Childcare/Child Welfare

Allows a county hospital to establish a child care facility.

House Health & Human Services Committee
Education

Eliminates requirements for elementary and secondary students to be immunized as a condition for school enrollment.

House Floor

Creates an individual income tax credit for certain recent graduates of Iowa Board of Regents institutions.

House Ways & Means Committee

Imposes a new annual tax on endowment values exceeding $500 million for colleges and universities.

House Ways & Means Committee

Prohibits businesses, schools, and government entities from requiring or discriminating against individuals based on their receipt of medical interventions.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Makes changes to health-related professions, certificates of need, and nutrition.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee
Government

Imposes a 5% cap on indirect costs for all state-funded grants.

House Local Government Committee
Health Care

Prohibits policies providing third-party payment or prepayment of health expenses from imposing cost-sharing for supplemental and diagnostic breast exams that are less favorable than screening mammograms. 

Senate Commerce Committee

Creates an ARNP preceptor tax credit.

House Ways & Means Committee

Makes changes to how damages are awarded in lawsuits against health care providers.

House Judiciary Committee

Requires health care providers and hospitals to publicly disclose the prices for their most common services.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Allows the board of nursing to suspend or revoke a nursing license if a licensee is found unable to communicate in English at a proficient level.

House Health & Human Services Committee

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.

House Floor

Creates an individual income tax credit for certain recent graduates of Iowa Board of Regents institutions.

House Ways & Means Committee

Changes the title 'physician assistant' to 'physician associate.'

House Floor

Prohibits the distribution, sale, or administration of any vaccine in Iowa unless the manufacturer waives any legal immunity from lawsuits for injuries resulting from design defects.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Requires postsecondary schools with degree programs involving clinical rotations to identify, upon request, a placement exempting students from vaccination requirements at the rotation site.

House Higher Education Committee

Requires health insurers to offer a special enrollment period for pregnant women.

House Floor

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.

House Floor

Amends and expands requirements for health insurance carriers and utilization review organizations.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Mandates that insurance carriers in Iowa cannot deny coverage for health care services solely because the referral was made by an out-of-network primary care provider.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Creates the Iowa rural health transformation fund.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Prohibits employers from enforcing certain contractual clauses restricting health care providers.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Enacts changes across health-related fields.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Allows pharmacists to dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Creates a state-based health insurance exchange.

House Commerce Committee

Allows an individual to refuse a medical service for reasons of conscience in certain circumstances.

House Judiciary Committee

Allows certain pregnant minors to give consent to prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Establishes new restrictions and regulatory requirements for gene-based vaccine manufacturers and distributors.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Prohibits discrimination, requirements, or penalties based on a person's status regarding medical interventions, and repeals/amends laws mandating or tracking immunizations.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Makes provisions related to utilization review organizations.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Makes changes to health-related professions, certificates of need, and nutrition.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee
Immigration/Refugees

Makes provisions related to certain rights and privileges, including state employment, professional licensure, voter registration, and bail.

House Judiciary Committee
Insurance

Prohibits policies providing third-party payment or prepayment of health expenses from imposing cost-sharing for supplemental and diagnostic breast exams that are less favorable than screening mammograms. 

Senate Commerce Committee

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.

House Floor

Requires health insurers to offer a special enrollment period for pregnant women.

House Floor

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.

House Floor

Amends and expands requirements for health insurance carriers and utilization review organizations.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Mandates that insurance carriers in Iowa cannot deny coverage for health care services solely because the referral was made by an out-of-network primary care provider.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Creates a state-based health insurance exchange.

House Commerce Committee
Medicaid

Establishes a standardized process for claim submission and reimbursement for managed care medical assistance services.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Restricts the timeframe for most post-payment audits of Medicaid provider claims to within 12 months of payment.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Creates the Iowa rural health transformation fund.

House Health & Human Services Committee
Other

Appropriates an additional $1 million to the Double Up Food Bucks program.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Requires certain hospital facilities to report serious reportable events to DIAL within 15 days. 

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system to verify immigration/citizenship for all public assistance applicants.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee
Pharmacy/Prescriptions

Prohibits drug manufacturers from denying, restricting, or interfering with the acquisition or delivery of 340B drugs.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Allows pharmacists to dispense hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin without the need for a prescription or prior appointment.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Allows pharmacists to dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives.

House Health & Human Services Committee
Professional Licensing/Scope of Practice

Enacts changes across health-related fields.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Makes changes to health-related professions, certificates of need, and nutrition.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee
Public Health

Eliminates requirements for elementary and secondary students to be immunized as a condition for school enrollment.

House Floor

Expands requirements for public health agencies, schools, and licensed child care centers to include information about immunization exemptions in all communications.

House Floor

Prohibits businesses, schools, and government entities from requiring or discriminating against individuals based on their receipt of medical interventions.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Denies minors the right to consent to vaccinations for a sexually transmitted disease or infection.

House Floor

Prohibits discrimination, requirements, or penalties based on a person's status regarding medical interventions, and repeals/amends laws mandating or tracking immunizations.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires each county form a county board of health or join a district (multi-county) board of health, with oversight and approval from DHHS.

Senate Local Government Committee
Reproductive Rights

Creates new prohibitions on elective abortion.

House Judiciary Committee
Taxes

Creates an ARNP preceptor tax credit.

House Ways & Means Committee

Creates an individual income tax credit for certain recent graduates of Iowa Board of Regents institutions.

House Ways & Means Committee

Imposes a new annual tax on endowment values exceeding $500 million for colleges and universities.

House Ways & Means Committee

Institutes wide-ranging reforms across health, nutrition, and tax policy.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee
Workforce

Creates an individual income tax credit for certain recent graduates of Iowa Board of Regents institutions.

House Ways & Means Committee

Prohibits employers from enforcing certain contractual clauses restricting health care providers.

House Health & Human Services Committee
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