HF 1038 Iowa House · 2025-2026 Regular Session

A bill for an act relating to the opioid settlement fund, making appropriations and disbursements, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.

HF 1038 allocates funds from Iowa's opioid settlement to state agencies addressing the opioid crisis, directly affecting programs that provide treatment, prevention, and recovery services. The bill specifies how the money is distributed (disbursed) to eligible state entities and includes rules for when the funding takes effect, including retroactive application for prior periods. It does not change eligibility for the settlement funds but establishes the legal framework for their use. The bill passed unanimously and was signed into law by the Governor on June 6, 2025.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

May 2025

Committee Review

House Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced May 5, 2025 Signed Jun 6, 2025

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What changed between versions

Enrolled with Governor's Action → Reprinted · 1 edit

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from a line-by-line legislative markup style to a standard printed bill format, making it more readable and official. The substantive policy content, including funding amounts, eligibility criteria, and program requirements, remains unchanged.

TECHNICAL

The entire document was converted from a raw markup format (with line-by-line additions and deletions) to a clean, professional printed version suitable for public distribution and official record-keeping.

Enrolled → Enrolled with Governor's Action · 7 edits · Jun 6, 2025

MODERATE

The bill was significantly rewritten from its original 'Enrolled' version to a new version with the Governor's action. The most important change is that the funding period was shortened from 2025-2030 to 2025-2028, and the total appropriation amounts were reduced. The new version also added an 'Evaluation Panel' to oversee fund distribution and created a new 'opioid reserve account' for capacity building. Several specific grant recipients were removed, and the detailed breakdown of funding amounts to specific organizations was replaced with broader categories and lower totals.

Scope change

The bill's scope was narrowed by shortening the funding timeline and reducing total appropriations. The definition of eligible recipients was broadened from specific named organizations to general categories of service providers, requiring proposals to be reviewed by a new evaluation panel.

TIMELINE

Funding period was shortened from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030 to July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028.

FISCAL

Total appropriations were reduced; the original version specified $29 million for the first year with detailed allocations to specific organizations, while the new version allocates $9.1 million and $3.9 million to broader categories.

A new 'opioid reserve account' was created to support behavioral health districts in increasing their capacity for opioid-related services.

REQUIREMENT

A new 'Evaluation Panel' was created to review and approve proposals for fund distribution, ensuring they are evidence-based and comply with settlement agreements.

DEFINITION

New definition for 'Evaluation Panel' was added, specifying it must include the attorney general, department director, and drug policy director.

Added a new definition for 'Behavioral health provider' to the list of defined terms.

ELIGIBILITY

Specific grant allocations to named organizations (such as a youth-serving nonprofit and an opioid treatment program) were removed in favor of broader categorical funding.

Floor votes · Senate May 14, 2025 · House May 14, 2025

How they voted

46–0

Passed · 3 other

Total votes 49

May 14, 2025

D Democratic15

14 Yea 1

93% Yea

R Republican34

32 Yea 2

94% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

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Committee

Amendments

Jun 6, 2025

Signed into law

Signed by Governor.

lower

May 14, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate, yeas 45, nays 0.

upper

May 14, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed House, yeas 84, nays 1.

lower

May 14, 2025

Lower · Passed

Amendment H-1349 adopted, as amended.

lower

May 14, 2025

Introduced

Amendment H-1356 to amendment H-1349 filed, adopted.

lower

May 14, 2025

Introduced

Amendment H-1349 filed.

lower

May 5, 2025

Introduced

Introduced, placed on Appropriations calendar.

lower

0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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