Bills › 88th General Assembly
Relating to the adoption of the interstate curing disease compact
Topics:Health care
Same legislation: HF 2519
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 22, 2020
- Done: House committeeFebruary 19, 2020
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa could join a group of states that works together to give prizes to people who find cures for certain diseases. Once six states join, a special commission will be created to review new medical treatments and decide who wins the prizes. This group will have the power to set rules, manage money, and oversee the entire program.1
Read the official explanation
This bill establishes the interstate curing disease compact intended to award prizes for curing diseases. The compact becomes effective and finding upon enactment into law by two compacting states. Once six states enact the compact, the governing commission is established and the compact becomes binding and effective on any other state that enacts the compact into law. The commission is a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality of each of the compacting states. In general, the commission has the power to receive and review in an expeditious manner treatments and therapeutic protocols for the cure of diseases specified by the commission, and to award prizes for submissions that meet the commission’s standards for a successful cure treatment and therapeutic protocol. The bill includes provisions relating to the establishment and membership of the commission; the powers of the commission; meetings and voting requirements of the commission; commission bylaws; rules; commission committees; finance; records of the commission; compacting state compliance; venue for judicial proceedings; qualified immunity, defense, and indemnification; effective dates and amendments to the compact; withdrawal, default, and expulsion; severability and construction; and the binding effect of the compact and other laws.
House subcommittee
Named January 22, 2020. On February 5, 2020 it recommended passage.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
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