Bill watch list from 2/28/2020:
| 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 – amended |
| IMD waiver | HF 2222 | A bill for an act relating to a determination of the availability of mental health services in the state including the value of pursuing a Medicaid institutions for mental diseases waiver, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2073.) | Undecided |
| preapplication screening | HF 2381 | 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. (Formerly HSB 535.) | undecided |
| nonmedical switching | HF 2423 | 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. (Formerly HF 2089.) | support |
| MHDS funding House Ds | 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. | Support |
| Legislation (Introduced) | HF 2470 | 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. (Formerly HSB 647.) | Gov’s bill – undecided – working to amend in House |
| dropout prevention | HF 2497 | A bill for an act relating to modified supplemental amounts for at-risk, returning dropout, and dropout prevention programs.(Formerly HSB 666.) | support – fiscal note https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/FN/1131723.pdf |
| suicide prevention | HF 2521 | A bill for an act requiring reporting by school districts to the department of education regarding protocols relating to suicide prevention and postvention and the identification of adverse childhood experiences and strategies to mitigate toxic stress response.(Formerly HF 2120.) | support |
| classroom management | HF 2532 | 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 HSB 598.) | undecided |
| Invest in Iowa – Gov’s tax plan | 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 |
| 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 |
| telehealth in schools | 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 |
| classroom management | SF 2360 | A bill for an act relating to classroom management and related practitioner preparation procedures for reporting classroom violence and assaults, to corporal punishment, establishing a grant program and fund for creation of therapeutic classrooms, providing claims reimbursement to school districts for costs relating to therapeutic classrooms, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 2190, SSB 3080.) | Undecided |
| nonmedical switching | SF 2383 | A bill for an act establishing an interim study committee to review and evaluate continuity of care and nonmedical switching practices of health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations.(Formerly SSB 3117.) | support |
| licensing | SF 2392 | A bill for an act relating to the operation of state government, including the review of state boards, the regulation of professions and occupations, and investigations conducted by state boards, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3142.) | opposed – “not moving” |
| licensing | SF 2393 | A bill for an act relating to the granting of professional licenses, certificates, and registrations to persons licensed in other states, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SF 2114.) | opposed – more open reciprocity than Gov’s bill in House |
| Invest in Iowa – Gov’s tax plan | 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 |
| Gov’s HHS bill | SSB 3194 | A bill for an act relating to appropriations for health and human services and veterans and including other related provisions and appropriations, providing penalties, and including effective date and retroactive and other applicability date provisions. | undecided |