Loading chat...
IA SSB3130
SB
Status
2/10/2026
Primary Sponsor
Health And Human Services
Click for details
AI Summary
-
Requires physicians and physician assistants in specified specialties (family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, cardiology, oncology, and others) to complete a minimum of 1 hour of continuing education on nutrition and metabolic health every 4 years for license renewal.
-
Modifies Iowa's certificate of need requirements by striking several existing provisions and adding new exemptions for outpatient behavioral health facilities, open heart surgical services, and organ transplantation services.
-
Exempts replacement medical equipment acquisitions with values exceeding $1.5 million from certificate of need requirements for both health care providers and institutional health facilities.
-
Proposed by the Governor and affects multiple sections of Iowa Code chapters 135, 148, and 148C related to health facility regulations and medical licensing.
Legislative Description
A bill for an act relating to health-related matters, including health-related professions, nutrition, medication, and taxes on certain products, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
Last Action
Subcommittee: Warme, Costello, and Trone Garriott.
2/10/2026