Bills › 90th General Assembly
HSB 690
Topics:Health careHigher educationFamilies & human servicesMental health & addiction
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 8, 2024
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- 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 Iowa would add psychiatrists to a program that helps pay off student loans for mental health professionals. Under this plan, psychiatrists who went to medical school in Iowa or finished their residency training in the state would get priority for these funds. The program would pay up to $50,000 per year toward a psychiatrist's loans, with a total limit of $200,000.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the inclusion of psychiatrists in the mental health professional loan repayment program.225 (mental health professional loan repayment program) to mean either a current nonprescribing individual who meets specified conditions, or an individual who is a psychiatrist who holds a current Iowa license. Under current law, the college student aid commission (commission) is to give priority under the program to mental health professionals who are residents of Iowa and, if requested by the adjutant general, to mental health professionals who are members of the national guard. _____ bill provides that if the mental health professional is a psychiatrist, the commission shall give priority to a psychiatrist who attended and earned a medical degree from a medical school or college of osteopathic medicine and surgery in Iowa, or who completed an accredited graduate medical education residency program in Iowa. The bill provides that the annual loan repayment amount for a psychiatrist under the bill is $50,000 for an eligible loan and the total amount of loan repayments from the commission to a psychiatrist under the program shall not exceed $200,000.
House subcommittee
Named February 8, 2024. On February 13, 2024 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 13, 2024 (1) · on the Legislature’s site