Requiring joint training sessions for nursing home inspectors and nursing facilities related to skilled nursing and therapy services

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedMarch 4, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeMarch 11, 2025
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the House
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 requires the department of health and human services to provide at least one joint training session for nursing facility inspectors and nursing facilities related to the settlement agreement approved by the court on January 1, 2013, in Jimmo v. Sebelius, No. 5:11-CV-17 (D. Vt.). The settlement agreement clarifies the policy of the federal centers for Medicare and Medicaid of the United States department of health and human services that coverage of skilled nursing and therapy in a skilled nursing facility, a home health setting, or an outpatient therapy setting relies on a beneficiary’s need for skilled care, not the beneficiary’s potential for improvement.

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 January 15, 2026. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Dan Zumbach REmail
• Sen. Tom Shipley REmail
• Sen. Thomas Townsend DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§135C.35C

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