Legislative Update – Week 4
Bill and Rule Tracker – Week 4
February 6, 2020
Welcome back IMHCA members! We have had a busy week also preparing for our strategic planning meeting coming up this weekend. Stay tuned for how this will impact our legislative and advocacy goals. The following are the bills to watch for the week and where we stand as an organization. There have been some surprises this week. ACA has asked to partner in opposition to some legislation that is concerning on the human rights front. LGBTQ issues have been at the forefront of some legislation that has been catching our attention. Stay tuned for more information!! Our list here will get longer before some things lose steam:
| Type | Name | Title | Note |
| nonmedical switching | SSB 3117 | 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 |
| Gov’s tax bill | SSB 3116 | A bill for an act relating to state and local revenue and finances including modifying individual income taxes, sales and use taxes, water service tax, and certain tax credits and provisions relating to county juvenile court expenses and mental health region funding, making appropriations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | Gov’s tax plan that increases funding for mental health with state funds. I recommend support |
| Licensing bill | SF 2163 | A bill for an act relating to the regulation of professions, including the granting of professional licenses, certificates, and registrations to persons licensed in other states, the sunset of boards granting professional licenses, and the review of occupational licensing rules, and providing an effective date. | We are not listed in this. Getting more information |
| IMD waiver | HF 2222 | A bill for an act relating to the Medicaid institutions for mental diseases waiver, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HF 2073.) | undecided passed HR committee |
| telehealth | 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 passed HR committee |
| classroom violence | 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 – more discussion ahead |
| background info | HF 2170 | A bill for an act relating to background information provided to mental health and substance use disorder treatment providers. | |
| telehealth In schools | SF 2100 | A bill for an act relating to the provision of behavioral health services including via telemedicine in a school setting. | support passed sub com |
| classroom violence | 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.(See SF 2190.) | undecided passed committee |
| 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 |
| AEA 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 |
| Legislation (Introduced) | 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 passed sub com |
| ABA grants | HSB 536 | A bill for an act relating to the behavior analyst grants program. | undecided passed sub com |
| preapplication 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 passed sub com |
| IMD waiver | HF 2073 | A bill for an act relating to the Medicaid institutions for mental diseases waiver, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2222.) | 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 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 passed subcom |
| LMSW | 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 passed sub com |
| SIS | 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 |
Check out these amazing photos from Renee of our beautiful capitol and advocacy at work!
Thanks again for all your support and funding to be able to do what we do! Members are making this all possible!
-Your IMHCA Legislative Committee