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Relating to Hawki coverage for applied behavior analysis services including a state plan amendment waiver for the children’s health insurance program
Sponsored by Sen. Janet Petersen (D)
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 3, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeMarch 10, 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 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa would start covering applied behavior analysis services for children through certain health plans. The state's health department will work with an advisory council to create rules for this new coverage. They will also ask the federal government for permission to include these services in the Children's Health Insurance Program.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires the medical assistance advisory council, in consultation with the department of health and human services (HHS), to adopt rules to include applied behavior analysis services as a benefit covered in a qualified child health plan included in a benchmark or a benchmark equivalent plan, and which comply with Tit. XXI of the federal Social Security Act. The bill requires HHS to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services for approval to provide coverage for applied behavior analysis services under the children’s health insurance program.
Senate subcommittee
Named March 10, 2025. It hasn’t reported yet.
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