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HF 2205Died when the session ended · February 2, 2022

Relating to electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, and providing penalties

Topics:Health care

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 2, 2022
  2. Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
  3. Next: House committee
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill provides for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities including the portion of the Iowa veterans home licensed as a nursing facility. The bill shall be known as “Evelyn’s Law”. The bill provides that a nursing facility resident or a resident representative may conduct electronic monitoring of the resident’s room through the use of electronic monitoring devices placed in the resident’s room pursuant to the bill. The bill specifies the consents that must be obtained for a resident to conduct electronic monitoring in the resident’s room, including from any roommate; the process to be followed if a roommate refuses to consent; the provision of notice to the nursing facility; the notification and consent form requirements; the responsibility for the cost and installation relating to the electronic monitoring; penalties for obstruction of electronic monitoring devices; the dissemination of recordings created through electronic monitoring; the admissibility of evidence created through electronic monitoring; liability and penalties for violations of the bill; resident protections; and reporting requirements.

Read the full explanation

The bill also directs the department of inspections and appeals to prescribe the notification and consent form described in the bill and to make the form available on the department’s internet site.

Full bill text1

Iowa Code it changes

Creates§135E.1§135E.10§135E.11§135E.12§135E.13§135E.14§135E.2§135E.3§135E.4§135E.5§135E.6§135E.7§135E.8§135E.9

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Lobbying

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

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