HF 2698 Iowa House · 2023-2024 Regular Session

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for veterans and health and human services, including other related provisions and appropriations including but not limited to the personal needs allowance for certain persons under Medicaid and the state supplementary assistance programs, replacement generation tax revenues, the Medicaid fraud and health care trust funds, the retention of certain revenues by the mental health institutes, the retention of Medicaid eligibility by residents of mental health institutes, the scope of services of the state resource centers, the appropriation of moneys in the juvenile detention home fund, the family investment program account and diversion program, the child support collection services center refund account, the quality assurance assessment payment period, the centers of excellence grant program, an assisted living program revised payment model study, funding for county commissions of veteran affairs, foster care provisions including those relating to a relative or fictive kin, health care employment agencies and health care technology platforms, medical cannabidiol practitioner requirements, nursing facility oversight, and state-funded psychiatry residency and fellowship positions, providing penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. Effective date: 05/09/2024, 07/01/2024. Applicability date: 07/01/2022, 07/01/2023.

This bill provides funding and sets policy guidelines for Iowa's Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Health and Human Services for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. It allocates money to support veterans' services, aging programs, behavioral health treatment, public health initiatives, child protective services, and various medical assistance programs like Medicaid and CHIP. The legislation also establishes specific reimbursement rates for healthcare providers, funds new training positions for psychiatry and family medicine, and includes provisions for child support services and foster care.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2024
Committee Review
House Passage
Apr 2024
Senate Passage
Apr 2024
Signed into Law
May 2024
Introduced Apr 16, 2024 Signed May 9, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Apr 19, 2024 · House Apr 18, 2024

How they voted

3015
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 48
Apr 19, 2024
D Democratic16
15 Nay 1
93% Nay
R Republican32
30 Yea 2
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
28
Key actions
4
Committee
0
Amendments
12
May 9, 2024
Signed into law
Signed by Governor.
lower
Apr 19, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate, yeas 32, nays 15.
upper
Apr 19, 2024
Introduced
Amendment S-5216 filed, lost.
upper
Apr 19, 2024
Introduced
Amendment S-5218 filed, lost.
upper
Apr 19, 2024
Introduced
Amendment S-5217 filed, lost.
upper
Apr 18, 2024
Lower · Passed
Passed House, yeas 56, nays 35.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Lower · Passed
Amendment H-8348 adopted.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Introduced
Motion to suspend rules for immediate consideration of amendment H-8362 to amendment H-8348, yeas 34, nays 57.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Introduced
Point of order raised on amendment H-8362 to amendment H-8348, ruled not germane.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Introduced
Amendment H-8362 filed.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Introduced
Amendment H-8361 to amendment H-8348, yeas 39, nays 53, filed, lost.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Introduced
Amendment H-8371 to amendment H-8348, yeas 35, nays 57, filed, lost.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Introduced
Amendment H-8360 to amendment H-8348 filed, withdrawn.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Introduced
Amendment H-8359 to amendment H-8348, yeas 39, nays 52, filed, lost.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Introduced
Amendment H-8348 filed.
lower
Apr 16, 2024
Introduced
Introduced, placed on Appropriations calendar.
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

No sponsor information available.