HF 357: Relating to health care employment agencies, health care employment agency workers, and health care entities, providing for the use of annual registration fees, and including retroactive applicability provisions

What it does

This bill relates to health care employment agencies, health care employment agency workers, and health care entities under Code chapter 135Q (health care employment agencies and workers). The bill amends the current Code chapter so that the chapter is only applicable to health care employment agencies and agency workers who provide nursing services as defined in the bill.2, relating to a contract between a health care employment agency and an agency worker or health care entity, a contract between a health care employment agency and an agency worker or health care entity if the contract is entered into for the purpose of placing an agency worker the health care employment agency assisted in obtaining authorization to work in the United States; contains an initial duration term of not less than months and a total duration term, including any renewals or extensions, of not more than months; and requires the agency worker to work for a single health care entity for the entire duration of the contract.

Lobbying · 5 for, 0 against

For: American Physical Therapy Association of Iowa; Iowa Hospital Association; Iowa Physician Assistant Society; Iowa State Bar Association; State Long-Term Care Ombudsman

In plain words

1. February 20, 2023Filed in the House
2. March 7, 2023Passed the House, 94–4
3. March 7, 2023Arrived in the Senate
4. April 24, 2023Took the place of SF 327 on the Senate floor (the same legislation)
5. April 24, 2023Passed the Senate, 49–0
6. May 9, 2023Sent to the Governor
7. June 1, 2023Signed into law