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Relating to the development of an actionable strategic plan to promote and support breastfeeding in the state
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 18, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 20, 2022
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- 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
AI summary The Department of Public Health must bring together different groups of experts to create a plan for improving breastfeeding support across Iowa. This plan will focus on bettering maternity care, workplace support, and education for families and healthcare workers. The goal is to use proven methods and better data to help more mothers breastfeed their infants.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires the department of public health (DPH) to convene stakeholders from various sectors to develop an actionable breastfeeding quality improvement strategic plan to determine the framework necessary to maximize breastfeeding support and improve the breastfeeding rate among all mothers in the state. The bill specifies that the strategic plan shall include goals and strategies by identifying potential system interventions and establishing a consistent approach relative to maternity care and hospital practices; workplace, peer, mother and family, and health care professional supports and education; and media and social marketing messaging. The strategic plan shall include steps to build collaborative partnerships and local coalitions to follow updated evidence-based best practices, policies, and procedures in supporting breastfeeding as the preferred long-term infant feeding method. The stakeholder group shall review the state’s existing policies, practices, and initiatives; analyze existing data and make recommendations for strengthening the state’s data collection and evaluation capabilities; and analyze other state and national laws, strategic plans, initiatives, and programs to determine those which may be replicated or modified to meet the goals and strategies identified by the stakeholder group, including those specified in the bill. DPH shall submit the strategic plan to the governor and the general assembly by July 1, 2023.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 20, 2022. On January 25, 2022 it recommended indefinite postponement.
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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.
- SF 2230 Relating to the development of an actionable strategic plan to promote and support breastf…88th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2317 · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2317 Relating to the development of an actionable strategic plan to promote and support breastf…88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
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- SF 251 Relating to the development of an actionable strategic plan to promote and support breastf…89th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passageNearly identical
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