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Relating to ensuring the provision of accessible prescription-related measures for persons who are blind, have a visual impairment, or otherwise have print disabilities
Sponsored by Sen. Tony Bisignano (D)
Topics:Health care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 4, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2025
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- 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 requires the board of pharmacy to adopt administrative rules no later than October 31, 2025, to ensure that a person who is blind, has a visual impairment, or otherwise has a print disability has appropriate access to prescription drug labels, bag tags, and medical guides. The accessibility measures shall be provided at no additional cost to such person, provide information in a format that is fully accessible to a person who is blind, has a visual impairment, or otherwise has a print disability, and provide information to a person who is blind, has a visual impairment, or otherwise has a print disability within a time frame comparable to the time frame within which the information is provided to a person who is not blind, does not have a visual impairment, or otherwise does not have a print disability.
Read the full explanation
The board is required to solicit input in developing the rules from persons who are blind, have a visual impairment, or otherwise have a print disability. The rules shall comply with the guidelines and recommendations in the United States government accountability office report published in December 2016, entitled “Prescription Drug Labels: Actions Needed to Increase Awareness of Best Practices for Accessible Labels for Individuals Who are Blind or Visually Impaired”, and shall include a method for providing notice to the public that accessible prescription drug labels, bag tags, and medical guides are available. The board shall submit a report to the governor and the general assembly by January 1, 2026, which includes information regarding progress in the implementation of the rules, recommendations regarding additional measures for improving accessibility, and projected costs of implementing enhanced dispensing fees to defray the costs of providing accessible prescription drug labels, bag tags, and medical guides to persons who are blind, have a visual impairment, or otherwise have a print disability.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Senate subcommittee
Named February 11, 2025. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Iowa Code it changes
Creates§155A.49
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Lobbying
2 for · 0 against · 5 undecided · Who →
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.
Tried before
91st General Assembly
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 2252 Relating to ensuring the provision of accessible prescription-related measures for persons…90th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 2456 · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2456 Relating to ensuring the provision of accessible prescription-related measures for persons…90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2022 Relating to ensuring the provision of accessible prescription-related measures for persons…90th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2089 Relating to ensuring the provision of accessible prescription-related measures for persons…90th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared 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.