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IA SF272

IA SF272
A bill for an act concerning retirement and employment benefits associated with cancer, and making appropriations.


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Introduced
02/11/2025
In Committee
02/11/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead

Introduced Session

91st General Assembly

Bill Summary

This bill requires public employers to provide health care benefits that include cancer screening examinations to full-time fire fighters, police officers, and emergency medical services providers within the first three years of a person’s employment and every three years thereafter. The bill allows a political subdivision to be reimbursed by the state for the costs of providing the examinations, up to $1,250 per three-year period per eligible employee. An eligible employee cannot be charged for receiving a cancer screening examination under the bill. The bill appropriates $1 million from the general fund for FY 2025-2026 to the department of management for reimbursing political subdivisions for the cost of providing cancer screening examinations. For benefits relating to members of the public safety peace officers’ retirement, accident, and disability system (PORS), and the municipal fire and police retirement system (411 system), the bill expands the definition of “cancer” by striking references to specific cancers and inserting a more generalized description. By expanding the definition of “cancer” to include more cancer diagnoses, the bill likewise expands the availability of accidental disability and death benefits to members of PORS or the 411 system who have a cancer diagnosis. By operation of law, the bill also expands the definition of “cancer” as used in Code section 97B.50A for purposes of in-service disability retirement allowance for special service members under the Iowa public employees’ retirement system. The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code section 25B.3. The bill makes inapplicable Code section 25B.2, subsection 3, which would relieve a political subdivision from complying with a state mandate if funding for the cost of the state mandate is not provided or specified. Therefore, political subdivisions are required to comply with any state mandate included in the bill.

AI Summary

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Government Affairs

Sponsors (1)

Last Action

Senate State Government Committee (11:00:00 3/5/2025 RM 116) (on 03/05/2025)

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