Relating to the initial care plan for minor and adult guardianships and the initial plan and inventory for adult conservatorships, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions

2019 Iowa Acts, chapters and 57, amended the laws regarding guardianships and conservatorships, including requirements relating to required reports. The bill provides that for all guardianship cases wherein the guardianship was established and the guardian was appointed prior to January 1, 2020, the initial care plan for minors and for adults shall be filed with the previously scheduled annual report and not within days of the initial appointment as specified by 2019 Iowa Acts, chapters and 57, respectively. The annual report must comply with Code requirements and guardians appointed prior to January 1, 2020, have continuing authority to perform acts concerning the protected person that were authorized prior to January 1, 2020, through the date of the guardian’s previously scheduled annual report. The bill provides that for all conservatorship cases wherein the conservatorship was established and the conservator was appointed prior to January 1, 2020, the initial plan and inventory shall be filed with the previously scheduled annual report, and not within days of appointment as specified by 2019 Iowa Acts, chapter 57. The annual report must comply with Code requirements and conservators appointed prior to January 1, 2020, have continuing authority to perform acts concerning the protected person that were authorized prior to January 1, 2020, through the date of the conservator’s previously scheduled annual report. The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to January 1, 2020.