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SF 144: Relating to the development and issuance of a request for proposals to provide housing for certain geriatric persons

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 it does

This bill requires the department on aging and the departments of human services, inspections and appeals, and corrections, cooperatively, to develop and issue a request for proposals (RFP) to solicit potential operators of a facility in the state for geriatric persons, including geriatric individuals who are registered on the sex offender registry or who are sexually aggressive. The RFP shall provide for operation of the facility based on the recommendations included in the geriatric patient housing review report submitted to the governor and the general assembly on December 14, 2018, pursuant to 2018 legislation that required the review by the same departments.

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named February 5, 2019

Sen. Mark Segebart (R)
Sen. Jim Carlin (R)
Sen. Amanda Ragan (D)

Lobbying · 4 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Association of Area Agencies on Aging; Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault; Older Iowans Legislature; The Hale Group

In plain words

January 29, 2019Filed in the Senate and sent to the Human Resources committee
February 5, 2019Senate subcommittee named: Segebart, Carlin and Ragan