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Relating to the requirements for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, and providing penalties
Sponsored by the House Health and Human Services Committee
Topics:Health careFamilies & human services
Same legislation: HF 537
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 1, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 17, 2024
- Done: House committeeJanuary 30, 2024
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, 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 People living in nursing homes or their representatives can now use electronic devices to monitor a resident's room. The law sets rules for getting permission from roommates, notifying the facility, and telling visitors that recording is happening. It also explains who pays for the equipment and how the state will handle the required paperwork.1
Read the official explanation
This bill provides for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities. The bill provides that a nursing facility resident or a resident representative, as applicable, may conduct electronic monitoring of the resident’s room through the use of electronic monitoring devices placed in the resident’s room pursuant to the bill. The bill specifies the consents that must be obtained for a resident to conduct electronic monitoring in the resident’s room, including from any roommate; the process to be followed if a roommate refuses to consent; the provision of notification to the nursing facility; the notification and consent form requirements; the responsibility for costs and installation relating to the electronic monitoring; notice to visitors; prohibited obstruction of electronic monitoring devices; immunity from liability, licensee discipline, and inadmissibility of recordings related to violations of the bill; resident protections; and reporting requirements. The bill also directs the department of inspections and appeals to prescribe the notification and consent form described in the bill and to make the form available on the department’s internet site.
1 written public comment to its subcommittee: January 23, 2024 (1) · on the Legislature’s site
Iowa Code it changes
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Amends§633.635
Lobbying
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Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.
Tried before
This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. None got through a chamber.
- SF 2057 Relating to the requirements for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, a…89th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 378 Relating to the requirements for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, a…89th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2376 Relating to the requirements for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, a…89th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · very similarCleared committee
- HF 268 Relating to the requirements for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, a…89th General Assembly · In committee · very similarCleared committee
- HF 2205 Relating to electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, and providing penalties89th General Assembly · In committee · similarCleared committee
- SF 2229 Relating to the requirements for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, a…88th General Assembly · In committee · very similarCleared committee
Similar bills this General Assembly
- SF 2327 Relating to the requirements for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, a…91st General Assembly · In committeeNearly identical
- SF 537 Relating to the requirements for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, a…91st General Assembly · In committeeNearly identical
- HF 664 Relating to the requirements for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, a…91st General Assembly · In committeeSimilar
- SSB 3080 Relating to the requirements for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, a…91st General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passageSimilar
Matched by wording or an identical title.