Legislative Update – Week 2
Bill and Rules Watch List
January 23rd, 2020
| Type | Name | Title | Note |
| MH Excus+D3+A3:D12 | SF 2067 | A bill for an act providing for excused absences from school for student mental health needs. | support |
| psy compact | HF 2094 | A bill for an act adopting the psychology interjurisdictional compact. | neutral |
| non medical switching | HF 2089 | A bill for an act relating to continuity of care and nonmedical switching by health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations, and including applicability provisions. | support |
| ABA | HSB 536 | A bill for an act relating to the behavior analyst grants program. | following |
| prescreening | HSB 535 | A bill for an act modifying duties to prescribe practices and procedures for implementation of a preapplication screening assessment program relating to the involuntary commitment or treatment of a person with a substance-related disorder. | neutral |
| IMD waiver | HF 2073 | A bill for an act relating to the Medicaid institutions for mental diseases waiver, and including effective date provisions. | neutral |
| suicide # on ID | HF 2049 | A bill for an act requiring school employee training and protocols relating to children’s mental health, requiring that suicide prevention information be included on secondary student identification cards, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | neutral |
| suicide # on ID | SF 2027 | A bill for an act requiring that public secondary and postsecondary education institutions include contact information for the your life Iowa crisis program and the national suicide prevention line on student identification cards and including applicability provisions. | following |
| pre-existing conditions | SSB 3033 | A bill for an act relating to preexisting condition exclusions in certain coverage for health care services, and including effective and applicability date provisions. | undecided 1/21 sub com 1/22 |
| suicide # on ID | SSB 3020 | A bill for an act requiring that public schools include the telephone number for the national suicide prevention line on student identification cards and including applicability provisions. | support 1/21 sub com 1/21 – passed with amendment |
| social work license | HF 2008 | A bill for an act relating to supervision of a master social worker for the purposes of reimbursement for services under the Medicaid program and private insurance. | undecided 1/17 |
| SIS | HF 2007 | A bill for an act relating to the supports intensity scale assessment for certain Medicaid members. | support 1/21 |
| telehealth | HF 2001 | A bill for an act relating to reimbursement rates for health care services provided to covered persons by telehealth and including applicability provisions. | support 1/21 |
| non medical switching | SF 489 | A bill for an act relating to continuity of care for covered persons with epilepsy, and nonmedical switching by health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 292.) | undecided 1/21 – wait to see if MH drugs reincluded – sub com cancelled |
| MH education | SF 376 | A bill for an act relating to the health education requirement for grades nine through twelve under the education standards. (Formerly SF 270.) | support in 2019 |
| green alert | HF 424 | A bill for an act relating to the creation of a green alert program for missing veterans-at-risk. (Formerly HSB 135.) | support 1/21 – sub com 1/29 9:30 Am |
| prior auth | SF 122 | A bill for an act relating to a prohibition against prior authorization for medication-assisted treatment under the Medicaid program. | undeclared 2019 sub com cancelled |
The following photo is from Renee Shulte, lobbyist, and is of the ISU extension – Drs Lawrence and Brown who presented to the Senate HR policy committee on suicides in Iowa in the ag community and mental health supports from the Department of Ag to prevent farm stress and suicide. https://www.
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