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Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 14, 2021
- Done: House committeeMarch 3, 2021
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 783
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
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What’s in it
AI summary Hospitals and surgical centers in Iowa must create new rules to get rid of surgical smoke during certain procedures. They will need to use special smoke evacuation systems whenever doctors use tools like lasers or electrical devices that create smoke. The state's department of inspections and appeals will oversee these new requirements.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires each hospital, critical access hospital, and ambulatory surgical center in the state to adopt policies to ensure the elimination of surgical smoke through the use of a smoke evacuation system for each procedure that generates surgical smoke through the use of energy-based devices including but not limited to electrosurgical devices and lasers. The bill defines “ambulatory surgical center”, “critical access hospital”, “smoke evacuation system”, and “surgical smoke” for the purposes of the bill and requires the department of inspections and appeals to adopt administrative rules to administer the bill.
House subcommittee
Named January 14, 2021. Meeting: Tuesday, February 9 · 12:15 PM · RM 103, Sup. Ct. Chamber.
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