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HSB 255
Topics:Health careFamilies & human servicesProfessional licensingChild careMental health & addiction
Same legislation: HF 803
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 25, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 25, 2021
- Done: House committeeMarch 3, 2021
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 803
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 803 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 803 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Physician assistants would be allowed to perform more specific medical and administrative tasks across many different areas of healthcare and state services. Various state departments would be required to update their rules to include physician assistants in these roles. These departments cannot change or cancel these new rules for two years.1
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25 (coverage for prosthetic devices). The bill also directs the department of human services, department on aging, department of corrections, economic development authority, department of education, department of inspections and appeals, racing and gaming commission, law enforcement academy, natural resource commission, department of public health, department of public safety, department of transportation, Iowa department of veterans affairs, and department of workforce development, including the labor services division, to adopt rules adding physician assistants to lists of health care workers that may perform certain duties. The bill prohibits those boards from amending or rescinding such rules for a period of two years from the effective date of the bill.
Changed since by amendments S-5026, H-1294; see Amendments.
House subcommittee
Named February 25, 2021. On March 2, 2021 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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Iowa Code it changes
Amends§135.109§135.146§135J.1§135J.3§141A.5§141A.6§141A.7§144A.2§144A.4§144A.7A§144B.1§144B.5§144B.6§144D.4§144F.2§189A.6§225.10§225.12§225.15§225.16§225.9§225C.14§225C.16§232.71B§232.78§232.79§232.83§232.95§234.22§235A.13§237A.13§237A.5§249.3§321.375§321.446§347B.5§347B.6§411.5§411.6§514C.17and 5 more
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