Mental Health America
Registered on 42 bills since the 88th General Assembly.
27
supported · 12 became law (44%)2
opposed · 0 became law anyway (0%)13
undecided4
lobbyistsHow legislators voted on its bills
89th General Assembly · 3 contested bills it took a side on. Republicans voted its way 97% of the time · Democrats voted its way 13% of the time.
House
The bills
- HF 2578 Relating to appropriations for health and human services and veterans and including other related provisions and appropriations, providing penalties, and including effective date and retroactive and other applicability date provisionsFor House 8–6
- HF 2578 Relating to appropriations for health and human services and veterans and including other related provisions and appropriations, providing penalties, and including effective date and retroactive and other applicability date provisionsFor House 52–32
- HF 2578 Relating to appropriations for health and human services and veterans and including other related provisions and appropriations, providing penalties, and including effective date and retroactive and other applicability date provisionsFor Senate 30–16
- SSB 1267 SSB 1267For House 54–35
- SSB 1276 SSB 1276For House 64–28
- SSB 1276 SSB 1276For Senate 29–15
Each legislator’s last floor vote on a bill is compared with the side the organization registered on it (its latest declaration; undecided doesn’t count). Only contested votes count, where at least a tenth of the chamber voted the other way, since most bills pass nearly unanimously. A vote on an amended bill may not be the version that was lobbied. Legislators with fewer than 3 such votes aren’t listed.
What it paid lobbyists
- July 2025 – June 2026$600Jim Obradovich / Jefferson Fink $600 · filed July 26, 2026
- July 2024 – June 2025$650Jim Obradovich $650 · Jefferson Fink · Victoria Sinclair · filed July 28, 2025
- July 2023 – June 2024$600Jim Obradovich / Jefferson Fink / Victoria Sinclair $600 · filed July 27, 2024
- July 2022 – June 2023$700James Obradovich $700 · Jefferson Fink · filed July 13, 2023
- July 2021 – June 2022$500Jim Obradovich $500 · Robert Mulqueen · filed July 7, 2022
- July 2020 – June 2021$500Jim Obradovich $500 · Robert Mulqueen · filed July 28, 2021
- July 2019 – June 2020$600Jim Obradovich $600 · filed July 27, 2020
- July 2018 – June 2019$500Jim Obradovich $500 · Robert Mulqueen · Pete McRoberts · filed July 15, 2019
From client reports filed with the Legislature each July. Every organization →
Bills, newest first
- HF 2782 Relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of he…Undecided91st GA · declared April 24, 2026 · Signed with item vetoes
- HF 2783 Relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation o…Undecided91st GA · declared April 24, 2026 · Signed with item vetoes
- SF 2335 Directing the department of education to convene a working group to study the impact of technology o…For91st GA · declared March 29, 2026 · Died when the session ended
- HF 2543 Relating to subacute mental health care facilities and services, and including effective date provis…For91st GA · declared March 1, 2026 · Signed by Governor
- HF 2292 Directing the department of health and human services to increase the number of inpatient psychiatri…For91st GA · declared February 6, 2026 · Died when the session ended
- SF 2084 Relating to the inclusion of the your life Iowa program on public school internet sitesUndecided91st GA · declared February 3, 2026 · Renumbered as SF 2319
- HF 2094 Directing the department of health and human services to increase the number of inpatient psychiatri…For91st GA · declared January 24, 2026 · Renumbered as HF 2292
- HF 312 Relating to orders for treatment of persons experiencing psychiatric deteriorationUndecided91st GA · declared February 15, 2025 · Died when the session ended
- HF 2402 Relating to behavioral health services for children including psychiatric medical institutions for c…Undecided90th GA · declared February 27, 2024 · Signed by Governor
- SSB 3146 SSB 3146Undecided90th GA · declared February 11, 2024 · Became law (new number)
- HF 2397 Relating to the transport of patients to mental health access centers by an ambulanceFor90th GA · declared February 10, 2024 · Signed by Governor
- HF 2210 Relating to the licensing of, and granting of clinical privileges to, certain health care profession…For90th GA · declared February 4, 2024 · Died when the session ended
- SF 2103 Requiring that school districts post information on mental health resources onlineFor90th GA · declared January 30, 2024 · Died when the session ended
- SF 2017 Relating to the development of a policy governing responses to a fire alarm activated on school grou…Undecided90th GA · declared January 21, 2024 · Renumbered as SF 2191
- HF 692 Relating to the staffing of brain health professionals in primary and secondary schools and making a…For90th GA · declared April 13, 2023 · Died when the session ended
- SF 560 Relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation o…Undecided90th GA · declared April 4, 2023 · Signed by Governor
- SSB 1212 SSB 1212Undecided90th GA · declared April 3, 2023 · Became law (new number)
- SSB 1213 SSB 1213Undecided90th GA · declared April 3, 2023 · Became law (new number)
- HF 602 Relating to the inclusion of the crisis hotline telephone and text numbers and internet address for …For90th GA · declared March 4, 2023 · Signed by Governor
- HF 273 Relating to the term brain healthFor90th GA · declared February 16, 2023 · Died when the session ended
- SF 210 Relating to the term brain healthFor90th GA · declared February 16, 2023 · Died when the session ended
- HF 101 Relating to the inclusion of the telephone and text numbers for the your life Iowa program on public…For90th GA · declared January 31, 2023 · Became law (new number)
- HF 2578 Relating to appropriations for health and human services and veterans and including other related pr…For89th GA · declared April 1, 2022 · Signed by Governor
- HF 2137 Relating to the establishment of a mental health practitioner loan repayment program, and providing …For89th GA · declared February 11, 2022 · Became law (new number)
- SF 2195 Establishing the mental health professional loan repayment program within the college student aid co…For89th GA · declared February 11, 2022 · Became law (new number)
- SSB 3003 SSB 3003For89th GA · declared January 26, 2022 · Became law (new number)
- HSB 527 HSB 527For89th GA · declared January 16, 2022 · Renumbered as HF 2385
- HF 893 Relating to state taxation and economic development activities, including future tax contingencies, …For89th GA · declared May 13, 2021 · Became law (new number)
- HF 891 Relating to appropriations for health and human services and veterans and including other related pr…For89th GA · declared May 5, 2021 · Signed by Governor
- SF 461 Relating to the voting members of a governing board of a mental health and disability services regio…Against89th GA · declared March 17, 2021 · Died when the session ended
- SSB 1227 SSB 1227Undecided89th GA · declared February 26, 2021 · Became law (new number)
- SF 358 Relating to an exception to electronic prescribing of a prescription drugUndecided89th GA · declared February 19, 2021 · Died when the session ended
- HF 294 Relating to reimbursement rates for health care services for mental health conditions, illnesses, in…For89th GA · declared February 12, 2021 · Died when the session ended
- HF 88 Relating to the provision of audio-only telehealth or telemedicine by health care professionalsFor89th GA · declared January 25, 2021 · Renumbered as HF 431
- SF 78 Adopting the psychology interjurisdictional compactAgainst89th GA · declared January 25, 2021 · Died when the session ended
- SF 2067 Providing for excused absences from school for student mental health needsUndecided88th GA · declared January 24, 2020 · Died when the session ended
- SF 2027 Requiring that public secondary and postsecondary education institutions include contact information…For88th GA · declared January 18, 2020 · Died when the session ended
- SF 376 Relating to the health education requirement for grades nine through twelve under the education stan…For88th GA · declared January 18, 2020 · Died when the session ended
- SSB 3020 SSB 3020For88th GA · declared January 18, 2020 · Died when the session ended
- SF 609 Relating to and making appropriations and related statutory changes involving state government entit…For88th GA · declared April 11, 2019 · Signed by Governor
- HF 690 Relating to mental health and disability services, including the establishment of a children’s behav…For88th GA · declared March 22, 2019 · Signed by Governor
- HF 451 Establishing a psychiatric patient placement clearinghouse and inpatient psychiatric bed tracking sy…For88th GA · declared February 26, 2019 · Died when the session ended