Legislative Update
WEEK 6: DEAD OR ALIVE
Hello all and welcome back to our legislative updates. We have FIRST FUNNEL WEEK Results! Renee has been hard at work tracking all of the current relevant legislation. First I want to send out a reminder about our Day on the Hill. Please note that we will have a training session from 12:30 pm -2:00 pm on March 11th for our Day on the Hill. If you are new to this advocacy thing, need a refresher, or have expertise to contribute to the learning experience, PLEASE join us before we head to the Capitol and talk with legislators.
Here is the week six update:
| Type | Name | Title | Note |
| New House D funding bill | HF 2466 | A bill for an act establishing a mental health and disability services risk pool and risk pool board, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. | Undecided? approps bill – alive |
| 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 – alive |
| Conversion therapy | SF 2257 | A bill for an act relating to sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts, and making penalties applicable. | support – dead |
| licensing 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 – alive |
| 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 – dead |
| 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 – dead |
| 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 – dead |
| 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; See SF 2360.) | undecided – amended and passed – alive |
| 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 – ways and means bill – alive |
| licensing 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.(See HF 2470.) | Gov’s bill passed committee – alive |
| licensing 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. | dead |
| 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 passed – alive |
| 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 – ways and means bill – alive |
| IMD | 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 – Alive |
| 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 – Life support- Fry Bill may see again |
| licensing bill | SF 2114 | A bill for an act relating to the granting of professional licenses, certificates, and registrations to persons licensed in other states. | amended and passed – alive |
| 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 com – alive |
| 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 – Alive |
| 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 – passed alive |
| grants for MH | 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 – dead |
| excused absence | SF 2067 | A bill for an act providing for excused absences from school for student mental health needs. | support – dead |
| 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.(See HF 2423.) | support passed House HR -Alive |
| 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 – alive |
| 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 -dead |
| 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 – dead |
| Masters SW | 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 – dead |
| SIS | HF 2007 | A bill for an act relating to the supports intensity scale assessment for certain Medicaid members. | support 1/21- Dead |
| health ed | 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 – dead |
| 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 – Dead |
| 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 – dead |