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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 178: Relating to continuity of care and nonmedical switching by health carriers, health benefit plans, and utilization review organizations, and including applicability provisions

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on May 24, 2022. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named February 11, 2021

  • Sen. Waylon Brown (R)
  • Sen. Janet Petersen (D) · janet.petersen@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Jason Schultz (R) · jason.schultz@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 15 for, 8 against

For: Alliance for Patient Access; American Heart Association; American Lung Association; Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa; CHAIN; Easterseals Iowa; Epilepsy Foundation Iowa; Genentech, Inc., A Member of the Roche Group; Iowa Conference of United Methodist Church; Iowa Mental Health Counselors Association; Iowa Optometric Association; Iowa Psychiatric Physicians Society; and 3 more

Against: CVS Health; Elevance Health, and its Affiliates dba Anthem, Inc.; Federation of Iowa Insurers; Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa; Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); Iowa Bankers Insurance & Services, Inc.; Iowa Total Care, A Subsidiary of Centene Corporation; National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals-Iowa Chapter

In plain words

  1. January 27, 2021Filed in the Senate and sent to the Commerce committee
  2. February 11, 2021Senate subcommittee named: Brown, Petersen and Schultz
  3. February 15, 2021Subcommittee recommended against it

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/SF178