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IA SF620
Bill
Status
4/8/2025
Primary Sponsor
Ways & Means
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AI Summary
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Excludes employees of administrative services organizations (ASOs) from the Iowa public employees' retirement system and prohibits ASO officers or employees from acting as county advocates for involuntarily hospitalized mental health patients
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Revises child foster care definitions to include "foster family home" as a licensed single-family home environment, adds "fictive kin" (non-relatives with significant emotional relationships to a child), and expands "licensee" to include individuals approved by HHS to provide foster care without formal licensure
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Makes child abuse information and dependent adult abuse investigation records confidential, expands the definition of "exploitation of a dependent adult," and requires Medicaid providers to share information with HHS to identify, prevent, or respond to child or dependent adult abuse
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Designates internal audit and examination information created or received by HHS as confidential, with limited exceptions for completing audits or when required by law to report or testify in court
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Appropriates funds from the region incentive fund to HHS for FY 2024-2025 to ensure continuity of care during the transition from the mental health and disability services system to the behavioral health services system, and changes health maintenance organization premium tax rates from 2.5% to the "applicable percent" (ranging from 0.9% to 0.95%)
Legislative Description
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, health maintenance organization's premium tax, and making appropriations and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 582, SSB 1171; See SF 641.)
Last Action
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 641. S.J. 882.
4/23/2025