FIRST FUNNEL WEEK!
Bill and Rule Tracker – Week 5
February 16, 2020
Lots going on last week at the Capitol. This week is the first funnel. So any bills not through a committee by week‘s end are “dead” for session. Your bill list will be much shorter next week. We thank Renee for her diligence in following these bills:
| Type | Name | Title | Note |
| Bills & Rules Watch | |||
| Sis assessment | HF 2007 | A bill for an act relating to the supports intensity scale assessment for certain Medicaid members. | support 1/21 |
| social worker | 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 |
| 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 |
| IMD | 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 committee |
| nonmedical 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 passed House HR |
| 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 |
| telehealth payment 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 |
| freedom act | HF 2273 | A bill for an act establishing the protecting freedom of conscience from government discrimination Act, and including effective date provisions. | oppose |
| 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 |
| 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.(See HF 2381.) | undecided passed House HR |
| 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 – amended and passed sub com |
| licensure bill | HSB 647 | A bill for an act relating to qualifications for holding professional licensure in this state, including the granting of licenses to persons licensed in other states and acquiring residence in Iowa, disqualification provisions for criminal convictions, the waiver of application fees, and licensee discipline, and including effective date provisions. | Gov’s bill passed sub committee |
| Gov’s tax bill | HSB 657 | 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. | support |
| Medication assisted treatment | 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 |
| excused absence for MH | SF 2067 | A bill for an act providing for excused absences from school for student mental health needs. | support |
| competitive 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 |
| 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 |
| licensure bill | SF 2114 | A bill for an act relating to the granting of professional licenses, certificates, and registrations to persons licensed in other states. | passed sub com |
| classroom management | SF 2190 | 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 claims reimbursement to schools for the transportation of certain students to therapeutic classrooms, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3080.) | undecided |
| freedom act | SF 2193 | A bill for an act establishing the protecting freedom of conscience from government discrimination Act, and including effective date provisions. | oppose |
| freedom act | SF 2194 | A bill for an act establishing the protecting professional freedom of conscience from government discrimination Act, and including effective date provisions. | oppose |
| conversion therapy ban | SF 2257 | A bill for an act relating to sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts, and making penalties applicable. | support |
| telehealth in school | SF 2261 | A bill for an act relating to the provision of behavioral health services including via telehealth in a school setting.(Formerly SF 2100.) | support passed Senate HR |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. | support |
| 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 sub scheduled |
| licensure bill | SSB 3122 | A bill for an act relating to qualifications for holding professional licensure in this state, including the granting of licenses to persons licensed in other states and acquiring residence in Iowa, disqualification provisions for criminal convictions, the waiver of application fees, and licensee discipline, and including effective date provisions. | amended and passed sub com |
| licensure bill | SSB 3142 | A bill for an act relating to the operation of state government, including the review and sunset of state boards and agencies, the regulation of professions and occupations, and investigations conducted by state boards, and including effective date provisions. | amended and passed sub com |
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-Your Legislative Committee