Policy-focused browsing for Iowa legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF 473 |
A bill for an act relating to certain sincerely held religious or moral beliefs of certain entities for purposes of child foster care and adoption. (Formerly SF 236 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026 91 | Senate
|
enrolled | Committee On Health And Human Services |
| HF 2712 |
A bill for an act relating to early childhood and family services, including the creation of an early childhood and family services system, state child care assistance for the child care workforce, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 623 ; See HF 2795 .) 91 | House
|
failed | Committee On Health And Human Services |
| HF 2781 |
A bill for an act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund. (Formerly HF 2537 , HF 2315 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026 91 | House
|
unknown | Committee On Appropriations |
| HF 2782 |
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; transfers, cash flow, and nonreversions; report on nonreversion of moneys; more options for maternal support program; reimbursement rates review; mental diseases exclusion waiver; full-time equivalent dashboard; comprehensive family support program; federal community mental health services block grant; behavioral health expenditure report; opioid settlement fund; emergency rules; graduate medical education; and special population nursing facilities; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 777 .) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2025. 91 | House
|
unknown | Committee On Appropriations |
| SF 2483 |
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; prior appropriations; child welfare and juvenile justice decategorization; commitment or hospitalization of certain persons with mental illness or substance abuse disorders; child abuse prevention; creation of a comprehensive family support program; and repeal of expenditure projections for state child care assistance and adoption subsidy programs; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 3192 .) 91 | Senate
|
failed | Committee On Appropriations |
| HF 2315 |
A bill for an act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund.(See HF 2537 , HF 2781 .) 91 | House
|
failed | Thomas M. Jeneary |
| HF 2537 |
A bill for an act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund.(Formerly HF 2315 ; See HF 2781 .) 91 | House
|
failed | Committee On Health And Human Services |
| HF 2356 |
A bill for an act establishing the state public defender’s pilot project to implement innovative models of child welfare legal representation as the project to preserve families. (Formerly HSB 566 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Judiciary |
| HF 2514 |
A bill for an act making children of child care workers in this state eligible for the state child care assistance program. (Formerly HSB 500 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Health And Human Services |
| SF 2462 |
A bill for an act relating to early childhood and family services, including the creation of an early childhood and family services system, state child care assistance for the child care workforce, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3111 ; See SF 2488 .) 91 | Senate
|
in_committee | Committee On Health And Human Services |
| SF 2096 |
A bill for an act relating to foster parent training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care providers. (Formerly SSB 3016 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | Senate
|
enacted | Committee On Health And Human Services |
| SF 2370 |
A bill for an act establishing the state public defender’s pilot project to implement innovative models of child welfare legal representation as the project to preserve families.(Formerly SSB 3076 .) 91 | Senate
|
failed | Committee On Judiciary |
| HF 2163 |
A bill for an act relating to training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care providers.(Formerly HSB 505 .) 91 | House
|
failed | Committee On Health And Human Services |
| HF 2407 |
A bill for an act relating to civil remedies for deprivation of constitutional rights; immigration enforcement limitations in hospitals, licensed child care centers, and public institutions of higher education; and protections against civil arrest at courthouses; and including effective date provisions. 91 | House
|
in_committee | Aime Wichtendahl |
| HF 2221 |
A bill for an act modifying eligibility and participation requirements for the state child care assistance program. 91 | House
|
in_committee | Elinor A. Levin |
| HF 2107 |
A bill for an act appropriating moneys to the department of health and human services for the statewide child care solutions fund program. 91 | House
|
in_committee | Shannon Latham |
| HF 2083 |
A bill for an act requiring the department of health and human services to pay for child care provided to a foster child participating in the state child care assistance program at the same rate as child care provided to a child with special needs. 91 | House
|
in_committee | Brett Barker |
| HF 2035 |
A bill for an act increasing the reimbursement rates child care providers receive through the state child care assistance program. 91 | House
|
in_committee | Brett Barker |
| HF 2054 |
A bill for an act relating to age requirements for an individual to provide child care without supervision. 91 | House
|
in_committee | Jason Gearhart |
| HF 2008 |
A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance payments to child care providers for days a child receiving foster care is absent from scheduled child care. 91 | House
|
in_committee | Brett Barker |
| HF 2030 |
A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance payments. 91 | House
|
in_committee | Brett Barker |
| SF 564 |
A bill for an act creating the positions of an ombudsman assistant for child foster care and a foster care advocate.(Formerly SF 251 .) 91 | Senate
|
in_committee | Committee On Health And Human Services |
| SF 641 |
A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of health and human services, including administrative services organizations, child foster care, child and dependent adult abuse, internal audit and examination information, and the region incentive fund in the mental health and disability services regional service fund, health maintenance organization’s premium tax, and making appropriations and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 620 , SF 582 , SSB 1171 .) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2024, 07/01/2024. 91 | Senate
|
enacted | Committee On Appropriations |
| HF 390 |
A bill for an act relating to physical examinations of personnel working in licensed or registered child care facilities. (Formerly HSB 7 .) Effective date: 07/01/2025. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Health And Human Services |
| SF 474 |
A bill for an act relating to services and support for youth, including treatment, physical assessments, and behavioral health evaluations for youth involved in juvenile delinquency and child in need of assistance proceedings; the licensing and certification of certain residential facilities; the provision of home and community-based services and habilitation services to certain youth by residential programs; administration and supervision of juvenile court services; and the suspension of Hawki eligibility for inmates of public institutions. (Formerly SSB 1120 .) Effective date: 07/01/2025. 91 | Senate
|
enacted | Committee On Health And Human Services |