SF 599: Relating to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan, public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program

What it does

This bill relates to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan (IHAWP), public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program and program review and report. DIVISION I. This division requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to request any federal approval necessary to include work requirements as a condition of maintaining eligibility for IHAWP. HHS shall exempt certain individuals from the work requirement who are under years of age, years of age or older, medically frail or medically exempt under Medicaid, a caretaker of a child under years of age, experiencing a high-risk pregnancy, receiving unemployment compensation, participating in substance use disorder treatment, or exempt for good cause as determined by the director of HHS.

Senate subcommittee · named March 12, 2025

• Sen. Mike Bousselot (R) · mike.bousselot@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Mark Costello (R) · mark.costello@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Molly Donahue (D) · molly.donahue@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 5 for, 43 against

For: Americans For Prosperity; Foundation for Government Accountability Action; Iowa Department of Health and Human Services; National Association of Social Workers, Iowa Chapter; VALOR Iowa

Against: AARP Iowa; American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN); American Diabetes Association; American Heart Association; American Lung Association; Brain Injury Association of Iowa; Disability Rights Iowa; Easterseals Iowa; EveryStep; Family Planning Council of Iowa; Free Clinics of Iowa; Hills and Dales; and 31 more

In plain words

1. March 10, 2025Filed in the Senate
2. March 10, 2025Approved by the Senate committee
3. March 11, 2025Sent to the Senate Appropriations committee
4. March 12, 2025Senate subcommittee named: Bousselot, Costello and Donahue
5. March 20, 2025Subcommittee recommended passing it
6. March 24, 2025Approved by the Senate committee, and given a new number: SF 615