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Relating to the opioid settlement fund, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions
Sponsored by the Senate Appropriations Committee
Topics:State budgetHealth careFamilies & human servicesFentanyl & drug crimes
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedApril 9, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeApril 9, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeApril 15, 2025
- Done: Passes the SenateMay 14, 202545–0
- Skipped: House committeeSkipped
- Done: Passes the HouseMay 14, 202584–1
- Done: To the GovernorMay 27, 2025
- Done: Signed into lawJune 6, 2025
HF 1038 became law → The same legislation passed as HF 1038, so this version was set aside. Go to HF 1038 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Department of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General will each suggest how to spend money from the state's opioid settlement fund every year. Most of this money goes to the Department of Health and Human Services to help fight the opioid crisis and provide grants to specific nonprofit organizations. Both offices must also send reports to the legislature explaining how the money was used and what impact it had.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to and makes appropriations from the opioid settlement fund (fund). The bill provides that annually, the department of health and human services (HHS) and the office of the attorney general (AG) shall each submit a proposed legislative bill by the prefiling deadline for departments containing recommended appropriations from the fund for the upcoming fiscal year. To ensure equitable statewide services, HHS and the AG shall consider recommendations for the proposed legislative bill from each district behavioral health advisory council. The proposed legislative bills shall provide that of the unencumbered and unobligated moneys in the fund, 75 percent is appropriated to HHS and 25 percent is appropriated to the AG. Moneys appropriated to HHS or the AG shall be disbursed in accordance with the requirements of the master settlement agreements, the Act in which the money is appropriated, and the bill, and shall be accompanied by a statement on any printed or marketing materials that the funding is a one-time allocation from the fund. The bill requires HHS and the AG to submit a report jointly or individually to the general assembly by January 1, 2027, and by January 1 each subsequent year, detailing the disbursements from the immediately preceding fiscal year, including the impact of the disbursements. The bill appropriates $12 million for FY 2024-2025 from the fund to HHS to provide grants to nonprofit organizations headquartered in a city with a population between 24,500 and 25,000 as determined by the 2020 federal decennial census, that are members of the Iowa substance use and problem gambling services integrated provider network and specialize in the treatment and prevention of co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders for adolescents and adults, for purposes of renovation and expansion of a campus as detailed in the bill. The bill also appropriates $30 million for FY 2024-2025 from the fund to HHS to abate the opioid crisis in the state. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
Why it matters. The department of health and human services and the office of the attorney general will propose annual spending plans for opioid settlement funds after considering input from district behavioral health advisory councils. For fiscal year 2024-2025, the department of health and human services will receive $30 million to abate the opioid crisis and $12 million to provide grants to specific nonprofit organizations for campus renovation and expansion.2
Changed since by amendments S-3189, H-1349; see Amendments.
Senate subcommittee
Named April 9, 2025 (as SSB 1226). On April 14, 2025 it recommended passage.
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