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HSB 215
Topics:Health care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 27, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 27, 2023
- Done: House committeeMarch 2, 2023
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 619
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 619 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 619 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Hospitals and nursing homes cannot make rules that stop patients or residents from seeing the visitors they choose. This rule applies to everyone in these facilities, no matter what their medical diagnosis is. Facilities can still use safety rules to manage how those visitors physically interact with patients to prevent the spread of germs.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires that as a condition of licensure for a hospital or nursing facility, a hospital or nursing facility shall not institute a policy that limits a patient’s or resident’s ability to receive visitors designated by the patient during an inpatient hospital stay or designated by the resident, regardless of the patient’s or resident’s diagnosis. However, a hospital or nursing facility may impose infection control protocols otherwise required that are related to the physical presence of such designated visitors.
House subcommittee
Named February 27, 2023. On March 1, 2023 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 2-1.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
1 written public comment to its subcommittee: February 28, 2023 (1) · on the Legislature’s site
Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
3 for · 0 against · 17 undecided · Who →
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