HF 692: Relating to the staffing of brain health professionals in primary and secondary schools and making appropriations

What it does

This bill relates to the staffing of brain health professionals in primary and secondary schools. The bill includes brain health issues in the legislative findings relating to services to persons with mental illness, an intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, or brain injury in Code chapter 225C (mental health and disability services). The bill provides that the general assembly finds that to reduce the stigma associated with brain health disease and illness and to assist Iowans in receiving brain health diagnosis and treatment, the term “brain health” may be used synonymously with the terms “mental health” and “mental illness” to allow for more preventative and earlier treatments of those Iowans with brain health issues.

Lobbying · 1 for, 4 against

For: Mental Health America

Against: American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; Iowa Mental Health Counselors Association; Iowa Psychiatric Physicians Society; National Alliance on Mental Illness - Iowa

In plain words

1. April 6, 2023Filed in the House and sent to the Health and Human Services committee