Committee
Iowa Senate Health and Human Services Committee
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committee members
Kevin Alons (R)
Doug Campbell (R)
Vice Chair
Mark Costello (R)
Molly Donahue (D)
Julian Garrett (R)
Dennis Guth (R)
Mark Lofgren (R)
Janet Petersen (D)
Mike Pike (R)
Dave Rowley (R)
Sandy Salmon (R)
Annette Sweeney (R)
Ranking Member
Sarah Trone Garriott (D)
Zach Wahls (D)
Chair
Kara Warme (R)
Mike Zimmer (D)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HF305 | A bill for an act relating to the qualifications of a county medical examiner.(Formerly HF 2.) | Crossed Over | 02/24/2025 |
| HF312 | A bill for an act relating to orders for treatment of persons experiencing psychiatric deterioration.(Formerly HF 123.) | Crossed Over | 02/24/2025 |
| HF313 | A bill for an act relating to testimony at involuntary commitment hearings by physician assistants and advanced registered nurse practitioners.(Formerly HSB 85.) | Crossed Over | 02/24/2025 |
| HF383 | A bill for an act relating to the controlled substance crystalline polymorph psilocybin. (Formerly HF 14.) Vetoed 6-11-25. | Vetoed | 02/24/2025 |
| HF385 | A bill for an act relating to discharge of involuntarily committed persons from a facility or a hospital. (Formerly HF 124.) | Crossed Over | 03/24/2025 |
| HF386 | A bill for an act providing for a study of transitioning certain medical schools in Iowa from four-year programs to three-year programs.(Formerly HF 146.) | Crossed Over | 03/13/2025 |
| HF390 | A bill for an act relating to physical examinations of personnel working in licensed or registered child care facilities. (Formerly HSB 7.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/13/2025 |
| HF509 | A bill for an act relating to Hawki coverage for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder applied behavior analysis services, and the autism support program.(Formerly HSB 122.) | Crossed Over | 03/24/2025 |
| HF516 | A bill for an act relating to medical residency and fellowship positions, including priority for admission to the university of Iowa's colleges of medicine and dentistry, and hospitals and clinics. (Formerly HF 137.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/13/2025 |
| HF524 | A bill for an act relating to the regulation of tanning facilities, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 116.) | Crossed Over | 03/18/2025 |
| HF648 | A bill for an act relating to a licensed sedation provider host permit for a dentist.(Formerly HF 339.) | Crossed Over | 03/17/2025 |
| HF806 | A bill for an act relating to peer review committees and organ procurement organizations. (Formerly HSB 121.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/20/2025 |
| HF807 | A bill for an act creating the compassion and care for medically challenging pregnancies Act. (Formerly HF 589.) | Crossed Over | 03/25/2025 |
| HF887 | A bill for an act removing birth centers from the meaning of institutional health facility. (Formerly HF 277.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/25/2025 |
| HF919 | A bill for an act relating to children's specialty hospital designations for certain nonprofit organizations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 268.) Effective date: 05/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/26/2025 |
| HF933 | A bill for an act relating to pediatric palliative care centers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 267.) Effective date: 05/27/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/26/2025 |
| HF953 | A bill for an act relating to legal representation for children who are placed in, or may be placed in, foster care.(Formerly HF 373.) | Crossed Over | 03/27/2025 |
| HF1003 | A bill for an act relating to child placements.(Formerly HF 638, HSB 146.) | Crossed Over | 04/23/2025 |
| SF6 | A bill for an act relating to the provision of information relating to immunization exemptions. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SF48 | A bill for an act relating to the reporting of serious reportable events, and providing penalties.(See SF 581.) | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| SF56 | A bill for an act relating to the right to try Act.(See SF 233.) | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| SF57 | A bill for an act requiring the department of health and human services to reimburse a county for the temporary holding of, or confinement of, a sexually violent predator who commits a public offense while subject to an order of civil commitment.(See SF 623.) | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| SF63 | A bill for an act relating to the creation of an Iowa cancer research program, and making an appropriation. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| SF99 | A bill for an act relating to the regulation of tanning facilities, and making penalties applicable. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SF103 | A bill for an act relating to the adoption of the American medical association's code of medical ethics by the board of medicine. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SF117 | A bill for an act relating to the prescribing, ordering, dispensing, and administering authority of pharmacists and practitioners.(See SF 313.) | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF120 | A bill for an act providing an exception to a minor's legal capacity to consent to the provision of medical care or services for a sexually transmitted disease or infection.(See SF 304.) | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF122 | A bill for an act relating to the eligibility of children of a minor parent for the state child care assistance program. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF125 | A bill for an act relating to regulation of psychologists employed by a state institution, agency, or research facility. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF128 | A bill for an act relating to immunization information requested on a medical examiner report used for investigations. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF129 | A bill for an act relating to the submission and posting of certain hospital policies. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF131 | A bill for an act relating to evidence-based maternal and infant home visiting services. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF132 | A bill for an act relating to Medicaid coverage of maternity care including doula care. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF133 | A bill for an act relating to the provision of period products. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF134 | A bill for an act requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and providing civil penalties. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF163 | A bill for an act relating to the definition of medical cannabidiol. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| SF202 | A bill for an act relating to ensuring the provision of accessible prescription-related measures for persons who are blind, have a visual impairment, or otherwise have print disabilities. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SF218 | A bill for an act relating to modernization of nutrition programs in the state. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| SF236 | A bill for an act relating to certain sincerely held religious or moral beliefs of child foster care providers and prospective adoptive parents.(See SF 473.) | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| SF240 | A bill for an act relating to the inspection of compounding pharmacies, and making penalties applicable. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| SF248 | A bill for an act relating to the admission of persons into residential care facilities, and including applicability provisions. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| SF251 | A bill for an act relating to the appointment of an ombudsman assistant for investigating complaints related to child foster care.(See SF 564.) | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| SF255 | A bill for an act relating to the personal needs allowance under the medical assistance program.(See SF 476.) | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| SF264 | A bill for an act relating to prescription drug affordability, including the creation of a prescription drug affordability board. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| SF301 | A bill for an act relating to county hospital operation of a child care facility. | Crossed Over | 02/13/2025 |
| SF313 | A bill for an act relating to the prescribing, ordering, dispensing, and administering authority of pharmacists and practitioners.(Formerly SF 117.) | In Committee | 06/16/2025 |
| SF324 | A bill for an act relating to provision of the state family planning services under the Medicaid program, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| SF327 | A bill for an act relating to dental provider reimbursement under the dental wellness plan and the dental wellness plan kids. | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| SF329 | A bill for an act relating to the delegation of custodial rights and duties with respect to a child.(See SF 554.) | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| SF336 | A bill for an act relating to the ordering and dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by a pharmacist pursuant to statewide protocols. | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| SF339 | A bill for an act relating to eligibility of pregnant women and infants for the Medicaid program. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF352 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance program benefits. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF353 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance income eligibility requirements, and child care provider reimbursement rates. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF360 | A bill for an act relating to the administration of gene-based vaccines, and providing penalties. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF363 | A bill for an act relating to the Iowa health and wellness plan and member community engagement requirements and including effective date provisions.(See SF 599, SF 615.) | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF406 | A bill for an act relating to powers and duties applicable to public health disasters. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SF433 | A bill for an act relating to direct acting antiviral medications, including prior authorization requirements, and the Iowa medical assistance drug utilization review commission. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| SF434 | A bill for an act relating to the creation of a child care solutions fund, and making an appropriation. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| SF438 | A bill for an act relating to the establishment of a 988 emergency service fund, making an appropriation, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| SF476 | A bill for an act relating to the personal needs allowance under the medical assistance program.(Formerly SF 255.) | In Committee | 06/16/2025 |
| SF478 | A bill for an act relating to Medicaid and children's health insurance program coverage for mental health services provided in school-based settings. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| SF481 | A bill for an act relating to certain benefits received by children in foster care, and making an appropriation. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| SF484 | A bill for an act relating to Hawki coverage for applied behavior analysis services including a state plan amendment waiver for the children's health insurance program. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| SF501 | A bill for an act relating to medical assistance program and Hawki program coverage for standard fertility preservation services. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| SF527 | A bill for an act relating to nursing facility staffing requirements. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| SF528 | A bill for an act relating to the personal needs allowance for residents of certain facilities under the Medicaid program, and providing an appropriation. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| SF529 | A bill for an act relating to nursing facilities and cost reports. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| SF531 | A bill for an act relating to nursing facilities and submission of the financial and statistical report. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| SF534 | A bill for an act relating to options for long-term care, and making appropriations. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| SF538 | A bill for an act establishing a working group on nursing home Medicaid payment recovery following the closure or sale of a nursing home. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| SF552 | A bill for an act relating to a review of anti-obesity medications by the department of health and human services and the department of administrative services for purposes of the medical assistance program and health insurance plans for state employees.(Formerly SSB 1138.) | In Committee | 06/16/2025 |
| SF556 | A bill for an act relating to eligibility requirements for pregnant women, postpartum women, and infants under the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| SF558 | A bill for an act relating to Medicaid program improvements, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| SF559 | A bill for an act relating to speech language pathologist assistants and the medical assistance program, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| SF564 | A bill for an act creating the positions of an ombudsman assistant for child foster care and a foster care advocate.(Formerly SF 251.) | In Committee | 06/16/2025 |
| SF581 | A bill for an act relating to the reporting of serious reportable events, and providing penalties.(Formerly SF 48.) | In Committee | 06/16/2025 |
| SF602 | A bill for an act relating to modification and substitution of a death certificate based on information obtained from a brain autopsy. | In Committee | 03/10/2025 |
| SSB1012 | A bill for an act relating to the double up food bucks program, and making an appropriation.(See SF 232.) | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SSB1016 | A bill for an act relating to prior authorizations and exemptions by health benefit plans and utilization review organizations.(See SF 231.) | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| SSB1017 | A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits manager reverse auctions and group insurance for public employees.(See SF 315.) | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| SSB1029 | A bill for an act relating to certain cost controls for health care services.(See SF 319.) | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SSB1052 | A bill for an act enacting the physician assistant licensure compact.(See SF 312.) | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| SSB1074 | A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, and prescription drugs and including applicability provisions.(See SF 383.) | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| SSB1080 | A bill for an act relating to controlled substances, including certain controlled substances schedules and precursor substances reporting requirements, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.(See SF 305.) | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SSB1081 | A bill for an act relating to the review by the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing of certain deficient practices by nursing facilities.(See SF 385.) | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SSB1082 | A bill for an act creating an advanced registered nurse practitioner preceptor tax credit available against the individual income tax, and including applicability provisions.(See SF 391.) | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SSB1120 | A bill for an act relating to services and support for youth, including treatment, physical assessments, and behavioral health evaluations; exemptions from children's residential facility certification; the director of juvenile court services and chief juvenile court officers; and suspension of Hawki eligibility for public institution inmates.(See SF 474.) | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SSB1121 | A bill for an act creating an emeritus license to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery.(See SF 469.) | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SSB1136 | A bill for an act relating to medical malpractice claims, including expert witness certificate of merit affidavits, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SSB1137 | A bill for an act imposing a tax on certain products containing nicotine or nonnicotine substances, and including effective date and applicability provisions.(See SF 475, SF 638.) | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SSB1138 | A bill for an act relating to a review of anti-obesity medications by the department of health and human services and the department of administrative services for purposes of the medical assistance program and health insurance plans for public employees.(See SF 552.) | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SSB1163 | A bill for an act relating to health care including a funding model for the rural health care system; the elimination of several health care-related award, grant, residency, and fellowship programs; establishment of a health care professional incentive program; Medicaid graduate medical education; the health facilities council; and the Iowa health information network, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.(See SF 575, SF 618.) | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| SSB1169 | A bill for an act relating to nonopioid drugs on the medical assistance preferred drug list, and health carriers' development of a pain management access plan. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SSB1170 | A bill for an act relating to area agencies on aging, dementia service specialists, and a dementia services coordinator, and providing an appropriation.(See SF 547.) | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SSB1171 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of health and human services, including administrative services organizations, child foster care, child and dependent adult abuse, internal audit and examination information, and the region incentive fund in the mental health and disability services regional service fund, and making an appropriation and including effective date provisions.(See SF 582, SF 620, SF 641.) | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SSB1174 | A bill for an act relating to the establishment of the work without worry program under the medical assistance program for employed individuals with disabilities, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| SSB1177 | A bill for an act relating to the controlled substance crystalline polymorph psilocybin. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |