HF 104: Providing an exception to a minor’s legal capacity to consent to the provision of medical care or services for a sexually transmitted disease or infection

What it does

This bill relates to the legal capacity of a minor to consent to the provision of medical care or services to the minor for the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a sexually transmitted disease or infection. Under Code section 139A.35, a minor has the legal capacity to act and give consent to provision of medical care or services to the minor for the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a sexually transmitted disease or infection. Under the bill, a minor does not have the legal capacity to consent to the provision of vaccinations for a sexually transmitted disease or infection.

House subcommittee · named January 22, 2025

• Rep. Eddie Andrews (R) · eddie.andrews@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Dan Gehlbach (R) · dan.gehlbach@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Heather Matson (D) · heather.matson@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 3 for, 27 against

For: Iowa Baptists For Biblical Values; Iowans for Freedom; VALOR Iowa

Against: American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN); American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists; Blank Childrens Hospital; Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Family Planning Council of Iowa; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa Academy of Family Physicians; Iowa Affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives; Iowa Association of Rural Health Clinics; Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers; Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners; Iowa Chapter-American Academy of Pediatrics; and 15 more

In plain words

1. January 22, 2025Filed in the House and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
2. January 22, 2025House subcommittee named: Andrews, Gehlbach and Matson
3. January 30, 2025Subcommittee recommended passing it
4. February 11, 2025Approved by the House committee
5. February 11, 2025Committee vote: 13–7
6. February 13, 2025Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 384