SF 120: 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.

Senate subcommittee · named January 30, 2025

• Sen. Sandy Salmon (R) · sandy.salmon@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Janet Petersen (D) · janet.petersen@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Mike Pike (R) · mike.pike@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 23, 2025Filed in the Senate and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
2. January 30, 2025Senate subcommittee named: Salmon, Petersen and Pike
3. February 6, 2025Subcommittee recommended passing it
4. February 13, 2025Approved by the Senate committee, and given a new number: SF 304