91st General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 131: Relating to evidence-based maternal and infant home visiting services

Died when the session ended · The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill requires the department of health and human services to engage in a cross-agency collaboration with the department of education to identify and leverage funding sources and opportunities, including Medicaid, to expand evidence-based home visiting services for women and infants that promote healthy pregnancies, positive birth outcomes, and healthy infant growth and development. The departments shall involve key stakeholders in designing evidence-based home visiting services for women prenatally, throughout the pregnancy, and postpartum, and shall include mental and physical health, social, educational, and other services and interventions.

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named January 30, 2025

Sen. Mike Klimesh (R) · mike.klimesh@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Mark Costello (R) · mark.costello@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Janet Petersen (D) · janet.petersen@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 8 for, 0 against

For: Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Family Planning Council of Iowa; Iowa ACEs 360; Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory Council; League of Women Voters of Iowa; Mindspring Mental Health Alliance; Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa; United Ways of Iowa

In plain words

January 23, 2025Filed in the Senate and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
January 30, 2025Senate subcommittee named: Klimesh, Costello and Petersen