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90th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 2196: Relating to insurance coverage for the maintenance and repair of complex rehabilitation technology wheelchairs

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to insurance coverage for the maintenance and repair of complex rehabilitation technology wheelchairs. Beginning January 1, 2025, the bill requires a qualified complex rehabilitation technology wheelchair supplier (qualified supplier) that provides a complex rehabilitation technology wheelchair (wheelchair) to a consumer to provide service and repairs on the wheelchair as requested by the consumer, or the consumer’s prescribing health care professional, except in the circumstances detailed in the bill.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named January 30, 2024

  • Rep. Brian Best (R)
  • Rep. Martin L. Graber (R)
  • Rep. J.D. Scholten (D) · j.d.scholten@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 10 for, 4 against

For: Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa; Easterseals Iowa; Exceptional Persons, Inc.; Imagine the Possibilities; Iowa Developmental Disabilities Council; Mosaic; Nishna Productions Inc.; On With Life, Inc.; One Vision; Village Northwest Unlimited

Against: Elevance Health, and its Affiliates dba Anthem, Inc.; Iowa Total Care, A Subsidiary of Centene Corporation; Medica; Wellmark, Inc.

In plain words

  1. January 29, 2024Filed in the House and sent to the Commerce committee
  2. January 30, 2024House subcommittee named: Best, Graber and Scholten
  3. February 5, 2024Subcommittee recommended passing 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/90/HF2196