Relating to medical income assistance trust fees

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeJanuary 28, 2025
4. ✕
   Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
5. Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to medical income assistance trust fees. The bill increases the amount that may be paid or set aside each month for necessary trust expenses without court approval for beneficiaries from $10 to $50.

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

House subcommittee

Named April 1, 2025. On April 9, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Steven C. Holt REmail
• Rep. Lindsay James DEmail
• Rep. John H. Wills REmail

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Fiscal note

Cost: up to $353,000 Compare with other bills

House File 836 is estimated to increase costs to the State by approximately $353,000 in FY 2026 and by approximately $276,000 annually beginning in FY 2027.

• Medical Income Assistance Trusts, Fees · March 10, 2025
• Medical Income Assistance Trusts, Fees · February 17, 2025

Nonpartisan cost estimates from the Legislative Services Agency’s Fiscal Services Division. The newest is first. Reading a fiscal note

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§633C.3

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

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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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

• HF 2135 Relating to medical income assistance trust fees
  90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same title
  Cleared committee
• SF 2163 Relating to medical income assistance trust fees
  90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same title
  Cleared committee

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.