Sign in

Topics

Health care

56 bills in the 91st General Assembly, newest first.

New bills and every step they take, in your daily digest.

91st90th89th88th

HF 2782 · Relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; transfers, cash flow, and nonreversions; report on nonreversion of moneys; more options for maternal support program; reimbursement rates review; mental diseases exclusion waiver; full-time equivalent dashboard; comprehensive family support program; federal community mental health services block grant; behavioral health expenditure report; opioid settlement fund; emergency rules; graduate medical education; and special population nursing facilities; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisionsSigned with item vetoesJune 2, 2026
HF 2788 · Relating to abortions including definitions, informed consent, dispensing of abortion-inducing drugs, and other abortion-related provisionsSigned by GovernorMay 19, 2026
SF 542 · Relating to the suspension of child support and medical support in certain circumstancesSigned by GovernorMay 15, 2026
SF 2483 · Relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; prior appropriations; child welfare and juvenile justice decategorization; commitment or hospitalization of certain persons with mental illness or substance abuse disorders; child abuse prevention; creation of a comprehensive family support program; and repeal of expenditure projections for state child care assistance and adoption subsidy programs; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisionsWithdrawnMay 2, 2026
SSB 3192 · Relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; prior appropriations; child welfare and juvenile justice decategorization; commitment or hospitalization of certain persons with mental illness or substance abuse disorders; child abuse prevention; creation of a comprehensive family support program; and repeal of expenditure projections for state child care assistance and adoption subsidy programs; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisionsRenumbered as SF 2483April 8, 2026
HF 2743 · Creating the Iowa rural health transformation fund and making appropriationsDied when the session endedMarch 31, 2026
HF 2545 · Relating to licenses to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery, and administrative medicine licensesWithdrawnMarch 24, 2026
HF 2292 · Directing the department of health and human services to increase the number of inpatient psychiatric beds at each state mental health instituteDied when the session endedFebruary 26, 2026
HSB 623 · Relating to early childhood and family services, including the creation of an early childhood and family services system, state child care assistance for the child care workforce, making appropriations, and including effective date provisionsRenumbered as HF 2712February 24, 2026
HSB 696 · Relating to the supplemental nutrition assistance program, the medical assistance program, and other public assistance programs under the purview of the department of health and human servicesRenumbered as HF 2716February 24, 2026
HSB 622 · Relating to alignment of delivery of health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services, and including applicability and effective date provisionsRenumbered as HF 2707February 23, 2026
SSB 3118 · Relating to utilization review organizations’ use of artificial intelligence, prior authorization determinations and exemptions, and prepayment audits, and including applicability provisionsRenumbered as SF 2421February 19, 2026
HSB 739 · Relating to the Medicaid home and community-based services elderly waiver program, including transition planning and assisted living servicesRenumbered as HF 2641February 19, 2026
SSB 3111 · Relating to early childhood and family services, including the creation of an early childhood and family services system, state child care assistance for the child care workforce, making appropriations, and including effective date provisionsRenumbered as SF 2462February 19, 2026
SSB 3145 · Relating to the taxation of cigarettes, tobacco products, vapor products, and consumable hemp products, and making appropriations to the department of health and human services and the department of justiceDied when the session endedFebruary 17, 2026
HF 2287 · Relating to liability for injuries caused by vaccinesDied when the session endedFebruary 17, 2026
SSB 3096 · Relating to care facility placement decisions for certain adultsRenumbered as SF 2423February 17, 2026
HSB 650 · Relating to licenses to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery, and administrative medicine licensesRenumbered as HF 2545February 16, 2026
HF 2220 · Relating to mental health care, including subacute mental health care facility requirements; admission to and discharge from a subacute mental health care facility; employment requirements at a subacute mental health care facility; insurance coverage for subacute mental health care; and the establishment of a psychiatric medical institution for children bed tracking system, and providing penalties and including effective date provisionsRenumbered as HF 2543February 16, 2026
SF 2211 · Relating to the Iowa medical freedom Act, including limitations on requiring medical interventions by businesses, governmental entities, and educational institutions, modifying state authority during public health disasters, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 5, 2026
HF 2221 · Modifying eligibility and participation requirements for the state child care assistance programDied when the session endedJanuary 30, 2026
SF 2151 · Removing psilocybin and psilocyn from the list of substances classified as schedule I controlled substances under Iowa’s uniform controlled substances ActDied when the session endedJanuary 29, 2026
SF 2098 · Relating to firearms, including background checks for acquiring pistols or revolvers, identification markings on firearms and firearm parts, trigger locks, extreme risk protective orders, mental health funding, certain firearm transfers, and certain related crimes, and providing penaltiesDied when the session endedJanuary 26, 2026
HSB 505 · Relating to training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care providersRenumbered as HF 2163January 26, 2026
HF 2084 · Relating to autologous and directed blood donations at blood banks and hospitalsDied when the session endedJanuary 15, 2026
HF 2083 · Requiring the department of health and human services to pay for child care provided to a foster child participating in the state child care assistance program at the same rate as child care provided to a child with special needsDied when the session endedJanuary 15, 2026
SF 618 · Relating to health care including a funding model for the rural health care system; the elimination of several health care-related award, grant, residency, and fellowship programs; establishment of a health care professional incentive program; Medicaid graduate medical education; the health facilities council; and the Iowa health information network, making appropriations, and including effective date provisionsWithdrawnMay 13, 2025
HF 1014 · Relating to matters under the purview of the department of health and human services, including administrative services organizations, child foster care, child and dependent adult abuse, internal audit and examination information, and the region incentive fund in the mental health and disability services regional service fund, health maintenance organization’s premium tax, and making appropriations and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisionsRenumbered as HF 1042May 9, 2025
SF 575 · Relating to health care including a funding model for the rural health care system; the elimination of several health care-related award, grant, residency, and fellowship programs; establishment of a health care professional incentive program; Medicaid graduate medical education; the health facilities council; and the Iowa health information network, making appropriations, and including effective date provisionsRenumbered as SF 618April 1, 2025
SF 527 · Relating to nursing facility staffing requirementsMarch 5, 2025
HSB 288 · Relating to civil procedure, including disclosures that may be made to the jury and the availability of certain medical recordsMarch 4, 2025
HF 701 · Relating to a review of anti-obesity medications by the department of health and human services for purposes of the medical assistance programFebruary 28, 2025
HSB 268 · Relating to specialty hospital designations for certain nonprofit organizationsFebruary 27, 2025
SF 433 · Relating to direct acting antiviral medications, including prior authorization requirements, and the Iowa medical assistance drug utilization review commissionFebruary 25, 2025
SSB 1186 · Prohibiting the licensure of certain entities of the People’s Republic of China to establish, conduct, or maintain a hospital or health care facilityFebruary 25, 2025
SF 414 · Relating to the review and approval by the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing of housing and health care facility acquisitions by private equity firmsFebruary 24, 2025
HSB 224 · Relating to the licensure of medical cannabidiol dispensariesFebruary 20, 2025
HF 469 · Relating to state services and benefits provided to veterans, including state grants, public assistance programs, business fee waivers, substance use disorder programs, mental health and disability services, undergraduate tuition and fees, disabled veteran tax credits, department of natural resources’ licenses and fees, civil litigation priority, permit to carry weapons fees, vehicle registration fees, and driver’s licenses, making penalties applicable, making appropriations, and including effective date provisionsFebruary 19, 2025
SSB 1138 · Relating to a review of anti-obesity medications by the department of health and human services and the department of administrative services for purposes of the medical assistance program and health insurance plans for public employeesFebruary 18, 2025
SF 339 · Relating to eligibility of pregnant women and infants for the Medicaid programFebruary 18, 2025
HF 427 · Providing for Medicaid coverage of power standing device equipment on power wheelchairs for Medicaid recipients with a permanent physical disabilityFebruary 17, 2025
HSB 186 · Relating to medication abortions including required informed consent and the dispensing of abortion-inducing drugs to patients within the stateFebruary 17, 2025
HF 409 · Relating to the licensing of, and granting of clinical privileges to, certain health care professionalsFebruary 13, 2025
HF 362 · Designating emergency medical services as an essential county purposeFebruary 12, 2025
HF 310 · Relating to assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations including a health care provider, and making penalties applicableFebruary 10, 2025
SF 189 · Relating to medical malpractice by exempting claims involving sexual assault from the limitations on noneconomic damagesFebruary 3, 2025
SF 188 · Relating to health insurance coverage for contraceptive devices, drugs, and servicesFebruary 3, 2025
SF 117 · Relating to the prescribing, ordering, dispensing, and administering authority of pharmacists and practitionersJanuary 23, 2025
SF 128 · Relating to immunization information requested on a medical examiner report used for investigationsJanuary 23, 2025
SF 120 · Providing an exception to a minor’s legal capacity to consent to the provision of medical care or services for a sexually transmitted disease or infectionJanuary 23, 2025
SF 103 · Relating to the adoption of the American medical association’s code of medical ethics by the board of medicineJanuary 22, 2025
SSB 1029 · Relating to certain cost controls for health care servicesJanuary 22, 2025
HF 105 · Relating to the definition of medical cannabidiolJanuary 22, 2025
SF 102 · Relating to public school personnel training concerning mental healthJanuary 22, 2025
HSB 9 · Relating to assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations including a health care provider, and making penalties applicableJanuary 15, 2025
HF 19 · Modifying the costs eligible for emergency medical services fund expenditures, and including effective date provisionsJanuary 14, 2025