Relating to the organization, composition, meeting, and reporting requirements of health-related commissions, councils, and boards and including transition provisions

This bill relates to organization, composition, meeting, and reporting requirements of certain public health governing entities. TOBACCO USE PREVENTION AND CONTROL. The bill replaces the division of tobacco use prevention and control of the department of public health (division) with the bureau of tobacco use prevention and control (bureau) and eliminates the commission on tobacco use prevention and control (commission). The bill transfers duties and control of the tobacco use prevention and control initiative, community partnerships, and youth programs previously administered by the division and the commission to the bureau. The bill requires the division of behavioral health of the department of public health to include tobacco use as a subject of study in new or existing work groups convened for the purpose of addressing substance abuse in Iowa. The bill strikes a requirement that the bureau of tobacco use prevention and control annually appear before the joint appropriations subcommittee that makes recommendations concerning the commission’s budget to report on the budget expenditures of the bureau. The bill includes transition provisions regarding the elimination of the division and the commission, and the establishment of the bureau. Any rule, regulation, form, order, or directive promulgated by the division or the commission in effect on the effective date of the bill remains in effect until it is amended, repealed, or supplemented by affirmative action of the bureau. Moneys remaining in any fund or account of the division or commission are transferred to control of the bureau. The bill instructs the division and commission to assist the department of public health in implementing the provisions of the bill. An administrative hearing or court proceeding initiated by or against the division or the commission is unaffected by the bill, and any cause of action or statute of limitation against the division or commission applies against the bureau. MENTAL HEALTH PLANNING AND ADVISORY COUNCIL. The bill removes the requirement that one member of the mental health and disability services commission be selected from nominees submitted by the state’s council of the association of federal, state, county, and municipal employees. The bill limits the number of meetings that may be held by the federally created mental health planning and advisory council to no more than four per year. BOARD OF MEDICINE AND BOARD OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS —— ANNUAL REPORT. The bill repeals the requirement that the board of medicine and board of physician assistants submit an annual report to the general assembly and the governor regarding the collaborative efforts and team-building practices of the boards.