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Aging Services

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

Senate & House Floors
Alcohol/Drugs/Tobacco

Makes a number of changes to support the Governor's "Healthy Hometowns" initiative, including changes to food assistance (SNAP), requiring medical professionals take nutrition courses, allowing over the counter access to ivermectin, reforming certificate of need, adopting PSYPact, and taxing tobacco/vape/nicotine and consumable hemp products. 

Senate Floor with Companion
Behavioral/Mental Health

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

Senate Floor

Doubles the capacity for inpatient psychiatric treatment at each state mental health institute.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

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

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Makes changes to requirements for subacute mental health care facilities.

Senate Floor with Companion

Revises criminal procedure code to clarify that a lack of recent overt dangerous acts should not be the sole factor in evaluating the risk posed by defendants acquitted due to insanity.

House Floor

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

Senate Floor

Requires public schools serving grades 7-12 to provide information about the 'Your Life Iowa' program on their websites.

House Education Committee

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

Senate & House Floors

Enacts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.

Senate Floor
Broadband/Technology

Places limits on digital instruction and technology use in schools.

House Floor

Creates requirements for chatbot deployment and operation.

House Floor

Establishes a working group to examine how school-provided technology affects students' cognitive function and academic performance.

House Education Committee

Establishes requirements and guidelines for chatbots to make sure they are not encouraging harm to the people using them.

House Floor
Budgets

Sets up a process for continuing appropriations if the Iowa General Assembly does not pass an annual budget by July 1.

Senate Floor
Childcare/Child Welfare

Expands and clarifies the circumstances under which a child can be adjudicated as in need of assistance due to serious chemical dependency, mental, or behavioral health disorders.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Clarifies that actions taken to raise, guide, or instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex do not constitute child abuse or child endangerment.

Senate Judiciary Committee
Civil Rights
Strikes numerous provisions from Iowa law that require or reference affirmative action, race, gender, or citizenship in state employment, contracting, and educational programs.
 
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Crime/Courts

Makes changes to Iowa's human trafficking laws.

Senate Floor

Revises criminal procedure code to clarify that a lack of recent overt dangerous acts should not be the sole factor in evaluating the risk posed by defendants acquitted due to insanity.

House Floor

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

Senate Floor
Education

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

Makes changes related to education requirements for certain licensed professions.

Senate State Government Committee

Makes it a fraudulent practice to falsely claim academic degrees or credentials for purposes of employment or personal gain.

House Floor

Prohibits schools from providing any program or instruction relating to gender theory or sexual orientation to students in grades K-12.

House Floor

Makes significant changes to Iowa's educational requirements

Senate Education Committee

Places limits on digital instruction and technology use in schools.

House Floor

Prohibits any courses or requirements containing DEI or CRT-related content from being included in undergraduate curricula at regents institutions.

Senate & House Floors

Requires public schools serving grades 7-12 to provide information about the 'Your Life Iowa' program on their websites.

House Education Committee

Establishes a working group to examine how school-provided technology affects students' cognitive function and academic performance.

House Education Committee

Expands prohibitions on teaching, advocating, or promoting stereotyping and scapegoating based on demographic group membership or identity.

Senate Floor
Government

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

Senate & House Floors

Reduces the number of calendar days members of the Iowa General Assembly receive per diem payments while in session, in essence cutting the legislative session in half.

Senate Floor

Sets up a process for continuing appropriations if the Iowa General Assembly does not pass an annual budget by July 1.

Senate Floor
Health Care

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.

House Floor, Second Time

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

Prohibits noncompete clauses in employment contracts between physicians and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Senate Floor

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

House Floor

Creates the Iowa rural health transformation fund.

House Appropriations Committee

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

Sent to Governor

Establishes a Veterans Recovery Program to fund hyperbaric oxygen treatment for veterans diagnosed with TBI or PTSD.

House Appropriations Committee

Makes a number of changes to support the Governor's "Healthy Hometowns" initiative, including changes to food assistance (SNAP), requiring medical professionals take nutrition courses, allowing over the counter access to ivermectin, reforming certificate of need, adopting PSYPact, and taxing tobacco/vape/nicotine and consumable hemp products. 

Senate Floor with Companion

Creates a state-based health insurance exchange.

House Floor

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

Senate & House Floors

Changes the Certificate of Need process.

Senate Floor
Immigration/Refugees

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

House Floor
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.

House Floor

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

House Floor

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

Sent to Governor

Creates a state-based health insurance exchange.

House Floor
Medicaid

Creates the Iowa rural health transformation fund.

House Appropriations Committee

Makes changes to public assistance program requirements.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Appropriates supplemental funding for Medicaid for FY25-26 and modifies HMO taxation.

Senate Floor
Other

Eliminates the requirement for a 30-day advance notice and preliminary hearing before the Iowa DOT can suspend a driver's license on the grounds of physical or mental incapacity.

House Floor

Provides enhanced confidentiality for communications between public safety officers and peer support group counselors.

House Floor

Requires all state entities to verify citizenship of new employees and professional licensing boards to verify applicants' lawful presence in US.

House Floor

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

House Health & Human Services Committee

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

Senate Floor
Professional Licensing/Scope of Practice

Makes changes related to education requirements for certain licensed professions.

Senate State Government Committee

Makes changes to the administration and regulation of licensed professions.

House Ways & Means Committee

Makes a number of changes to support the Governor's "Healthy Hometowns" initiative, including changes to food assistance (SNAP), requiring medical professionals take nutrition courses, allowing over the counter access to ivermectin, reforming certificate of need, adopting PSYPact, and taxing tobacco/vape/nicotine and consumable hemp products. 

Senate Floor with Companion
Taxes

Creates an individual tax credit for purchasing firearm safety devices.

Senate 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
Workforce

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

House Ways & Means Committee
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