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Relating to professional disciplinary actions against persons in health-related professions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 15, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 20, 2023
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- 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 State licensing boards for health professionals cannot punish someone just for not following federal guidelines from groups like the CDC or FDA, unless that action also breaks an Iowa law. If a person is fined by a federal agency for something that isn't against state law, they can ask the board to get that money back. The boards involved will have to create new rules to make sure these changes happen.1
Read the official explanation
This bill prohibits a professional licensing board under Code chapter 147 (general provisions, health-related professions) from imposing discipline on a licensee for failure to follow or implement guidelines, recommendations, or regulations of the United States food and drug administration, centers for disease control and prevention, or national institutes of health, unless such failure also constitutes a violation of a law of this state. The bill allows a person subject to a fine by the United States food and drug administration for conduct that is not a violation of state law after the effective date of the bill to petition the board for repayment of that fine. The bill requires each relevant board to adopt rules to implement the bill.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 20, 2023. On February 21, 2023 it recommended passage. [].
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
5 written public comments to its subcommittee: February 21, 2023 (5) · on the Legislature’s site