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Report from the Older Iowans Legislature
Friday January 27, 2023
Members and friends of the Older Iowans Legislature,
As of Friday January 27, the Board of Directors of the Older Iowans Legislature is monitoring sixteen (16) files/study bills of interest to the Older Iowans Legislature in the 2023 session of the Iowa General Assembly:
- Five (5) bills: re. Health care providers
- Senate File 148
- House File 102
- Senate Study Bill 1063
- House File 74
- Senate File 86
- Four (4) bills: Property tax credit for elders
- Senate Study Bill 1088
- House Study Bill 93
- House File 92
- Senate File 20
- Three (3) bills: Elder Abuse
- Senate File 107
- Senate File 93
- Senate File 92
- Two (2) bills: Health care employment agencies
- House Study Bill 24
- Senate Study Bill 1044
- Two (2) bills: Apprenticeship programs (possibly for medical workforce)
- Senate Study Bill 1086
- House Study Bill 82
The Older Iowans Legislature, during its annual meeting on Monday September 26, 2022, identified four (4) Priority Issues for submission to the 2023 session of the Iowan General Assembly, under the very general titles of:
- Enacting a dementia specialist program
- Improving guardianship and conservatorship system
- Funding Iowa Return to Community from the lottery
- Iowa Lottery Authority,99G.39: Allocation, appropriation, transfer, and reporting of funds
- Iowa Return to Community is currently funded by:
- House File 2578: 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.
- Improving nursing home care
2023 session of the Iowa General Assembly: Files and Study Bills of interest to the Older Iowans Legislature:
- Senate File 148 by COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY: A bill for an act relating to noneconomic damage awards against health care providers and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly Senate Study Bill 1063)
- January 26, 2023: Introduced, placed on calendar
- Senate Study Bill 1088 by PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON GREEN: A bill for an act relating to certain filing deadlines for property tax credits available to certain elderly, disabled, and low-income persons
and including effective date ands applicability provisions.
- January 26, 2023: Introduced, referred to Local Government
- January 26, 2023: Subcommittee: Guth, Webster, and Weiner
- House Study Bill 93 by PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON LATHAM: A bill for an act relating to certain filing deadlines for property tax credits available to certain elderly, disabled, and low-income persons and
including effective date and applicability provisions.
- January 25, 2023: Introduced, referred to Local Government
- January 25, 2023: Subcommittee: Gustafson, Gehlbach and Wilson
- Senate Study Bill 1086 by COMMITTEE ON WORKFORCE: A bill for an act relating to apprenticeships and establishing an Iowa office of apprenticeship and Iowa apprenticeship council.
- January 25, 2023: Introduced, referred to Workforce
- January 25, 2023: Subcommittee: Dickey, Taylor, J., and Taylor, T
- House Study Bill 82 by COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND TECHNOLOGY: A bill for an act relating to apprenticeships and establishing an Iowa office of apprenticeship and Iowa apprenticeship council.
- January 25, 2023: Introduced, referred to Economic Growth and Technology
- January 25, 2023: Subcommittee: Ingels, Moore, T., and Staed
- House File 102 by MEYER AND FRY: A bill for an act relating to noneconomic damage awards against health care providers, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
- January 24, 2023: Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services
- January 24, 2023: Subcommittee: Meyer, A., Fry, and Matson
- January 26, 2023: Subcommittee recommends passage
- Senate Study Bill 1063 by PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY BILL BY CHAIRPERSON ZAUN: A bill for an act relating to noneconomic damage awards against health care providers.
- January 23, 2023: Introduced, referred to Judiciary
- January 23, 2023: Subcommittee: Schultz, Boulton, and Bousselot
- January 25, 2023: Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage
- January 25, 2023: Committee report approving bill, renumbered as ( )
- House File 92 by JACOBY: A bill for an act modifying provisions relating to the additional property tax credit for elderly persons and including applicability provisions.
- January 23, 2023: Introduced, referred to Ways and Means
- House File 74 by INGELS: A bill for an act relating to maximum annual services caps for specified services under certain Medicaid home and community-based services waivers.
- January 20, 2023: Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services
- January 23, 2023: Subcommittee: Kniff McCulla, Forbes and Moore, T
- January 26, 2023: Subcommittee recommends passage
- Senate File 107 by SALMON: A bill for an act relating to elder abuse.
- January 19, 2023: Introduced, referred to Judiciary
- Senate File 93 by SALMON: A bill for an act relating to dependent adult abuse investigations in facilities and programs.
- January 18, 2023: Introduced, referred to Judiciary
- January 23, 2023: Subcommittee: Garrett, Evans, and Quirmbach
- Senate File 92 by SALMON: A bill for an act relating to the reporting of false information regarding suspected dependent adult abuse in facilities and programs, and providing penalties.
- January 18, 2023: Introduced, referred to Judiciary
- January 23, 2023: Subcommittee: Garrett, Evans, and Quirmbach
- House Study Bill 24 by COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: A bill for an act relating to health employment agencies, health care employment agency workers, and health care entities, and including retroactive applicability provisions.
- January 12, 2023: Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services
- January 12, 2023: Subcommittee: Wood, Lundgren and Turek
- January 25, 2023: Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage
- Senate Study Bill 1044 by PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTIONS AND APPEALS BILL: A bill for an act relating to health care employment agencies, health care employment agency workers, and health care entities, ands including retroactive applicability
provisions.
- January 17, 2023: Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services
- January 17, 2023: Subcommittee: Costello, Jochum, and Rowley
- Senate File 86 by KLIMESH: 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.
- January 17, 2023: Introduced, referred to Commerce
- January 17, 2023: Subcommittee: Klimesh, Bisignano, and Westrich
- January 26, 2023: Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage
- Senate File 20 by ZAUN: A bill for an act modifying provisions relating to the additional property tax credit for elderly persons and including applicability provisions.
- January 9, 2023: Introduced, referred to Ways and Means
- January 11, 2023: Subcommittee: Dawson, Koelker, and T. Taylor
Ron Jome, Secretary, Board of Directors, Older Iowans Legislature
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