HSB 133

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 2, 2023
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   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 2, 2023
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeFebruary 23, 2023
4. –
   Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 466
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Became HF 466 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 466 What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to televised testimony at involuntary commitment hearings for persons with substance-related disorders and persons with a mental illness. _____ disorder or mental illness, may allow a specified health professional who examined the respondent in connection with the commitment hearing to provide testimony at the hearing via televised means. The bill also allows such hearings to take place telephonically at the discretion of the court. The bill provides that, in a hearing relating to a person’s involuntary commitment for a substance-related disorder or mental illness, an applicant, respondent, and a respondent’s attorney may waive the televised appearance at the hearing of the health professional who examined the respondent in connection with the commitment hearing.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text · What changed before it passed

House subcommittee

Named February 2, 2023. On February 15, 2023 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.

• Rep. Brian K. Lohse REmail
• Rep. Austin Baeth DEmail
• Rep. Barb Kniff McCulla REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§125.82§229.12

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Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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