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Relating to orders for treatment of persons experiencing psychiatric deterioration
Sponsored by the House Health and Human Services Committee, Rep. Ann Meyer (R)
Topics:Courts & civil lawHealth careMental health & addiction
Same legislation: HF 123
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 27, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2025
- Done: House committeeFebruary 6, 2025
- Done: Passes the HouseFebruary 20, 202591–1
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- 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 Courts could order medical treatment for people experiencing psychiatric deterioration, even if they are not yet considered seriously mentally impaired. This change applies to individuals whose mental health is declining in a way that makes them unlikely to seek help on their own. It focuses on people who are at high risk of becoming seriously mentally impaired if they do not receive treatment.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to orders for treatment of persons experiencing psychiatric deterioration. Under current law, a court may order the treatment of a person if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the person is seriously mentally impaired. The bill allows a court to also order the treatment of a person if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the person is experiencing psychiatric deterioration. The bill defines “psychiatric deterioration” as a deterioration of a person’s mental health such that based on that person’s history the person is unlikely to seek treatment, the person is unable to understand the need to treat the person’s mental health condition, and, within a reasonable degree of medical certainty, the person is likely to continue to deteriorate until they have a serious mental impairment unless they receive treatment. 8102 (clerk of district court —— general duties) and Code chapter 229 (hospitalization of persons with mental illness).
Senate subcommittee
Named March 3, 2025. On March 10, 2025 it recommended passage.
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Iowa Code it changes
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Lobbying
10 for · 1 against · 19 undecided · Who →
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