Legislative Update – Week 3
Bills and Rules Watch List – Week 3
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Welcome back to your legislative update. There is a lot going on. Your legislative committee has been hard at work reviewing proposed legislation and giving feedback to Renee. She is learning more about some of the needs of those providers currently in practice in the state. We have many items to watch and sub-committee meetings galore.
| Type | Name | Title | Note |
| Telehealth parity | HF 2192 | A bill for an act relating to reimbursement rates for health care services provided to covered persons by telehealth and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2001.) | support |
| Classroom management | HSB 598 | A bill for an act relating to classroom management and related practitioner preparation procedures for reporting alleged classroom violence and assaults, to corporal punishment, establishing a grant program and fund for creation of therapeutic classrooms, providing supplementary weighting for the transportation of certain students to therapeutic classrooms, making an appropriation, and including effective date provisions. | undecided |
| Background info for MH and Sub | HF 2170 | A bill for an act relating to background information provided to mental health and substance use disorder treatment providers. | |
| Telemedicine in schools | SF 2100 | A bill for an act relating to the provision of behavioral health services including via telemedicine in a school setting. | undecided with questions for sub com |
| Classroom management | SSB 3080 | A bill for an act relating to classroom management and related practitioner preparation procedures for reporting alleged classroom violence and assaults, to corporal punishment, establishing a grant program and fund for creation of therapeutic classrooms, providing supplementary weighting for the transportation of certain students to therapeutic classrooms, making an appropriation, and including effective date provisions. | undecided. |
| suicide prevention | HF 2120 | A bill for an act relating to protocols and school employee training relating to suicide prevention and the identification of adverse childhood experiences and strategies to mitigate toxic stress response and including effective date and applicability provisions. | support |
| suicide # | SF 2081 | A bill for an act relating to the inclusion of the telephone and text numbers for the your life Iowa program on public school student identification cards and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 3020.) | support |
| MH grants | SF 2071 | A bill for an act relating to a mental health service providers competitive grant program for school districts and area education agencies, reducing state aid to area education agencies, and making an appropriation. | support |
| Excused absence for MH | SF 2067 | A bill for an act providing for excused absences from school for student mental health needs. | support |
| 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. | undecided passed sub com |
| pre application screening | 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. | undecided |
| IMD waiver | HF 2073 | A bill for an act relating to the Medicaid institutions for mental diseases waiver, and including effective date provisions. | undecided passed sub com |
| suicide prevention | 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. | support |
| preexisting exclusions | 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 passed subcom |
| social work | 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 Scale | HF 2007 | A bill for an act relating to the supports intensity scale assessment for certain Medicaid members. | support 1/21 |
| 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 – will not move forward in the current form |
| MAT | 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 – issue corrected by rule. bill not needed |
Photos include the telehealth parity committee from my vantage point and including me from another angle (how fun!) And of course, the beautiful capitol on a snowy day. Enjoy!
– Your Legislative committee
