Calls upon the President, Congress, Governor, the executive branch and the General Assembly to work to improve communities by bolstering the care workforce.

Requires DHS to submit a Medicaid waiver to allow comprehensive, evidence-based substance abuse treatment for Medicaid members.

Increases the number of local ombudsmen and establishes requirements for Office of Long-Term Care Ombudsman staff meetings, case assignments, and responses to resident/tenant inquiries.

Allows voters to register electronically for absentee ballots.

Allows an absentee voter to receive absentee ballots for all subsequent general elections without having to reapply.

Makes changes to the Bottle Bill.

Repeals the beverage containers control program.

Terminates Medicaid managed care contracts.

Repeals the bottle bill.

Allows for visitation between residents and tenants of long-term care facilities during a national public health emergency or public health disaster.

Requires DIA to consult with the state long-term care ombudsman prior to issuing guidance restricting visitation at nursing homes during a national public health emergency.

Makes provisions related to the financial exploitation of adults age 65 and older and certain dependent adults.

Allows a pharmacist to refill a prescription without prescriber authorization under certain circumstances.

Requires insurance carriers to cap the total amount of cost-sharing that a covered person is required to pay for prescription insulin.

Allows authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities.

Prohibits certain health carriers from excluding out-of-state health care professionals from providing telehealth services.

Requires insurance plans cover mental health services provided via telehealth.

Requires adult changing stations in certain locations.

Requires sign language interpreters for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals in legal proceedings.

Requires MCOs to submit quarterly reports on long-term services and supports (LTSS) members.

Requires DHS to submit a Medicaid waiver for services to members with serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance during short-term stays for acute care in residential and inpatient settings that qualify as institutions for mental diseases.

This bill requires installation of adult changing stations at rest areas.

Requires insurance carriers to cover medically necessary food, vitamins, and individual amino acids.

Enacts the Interstate Audiology & Speech Pathology Compact.

Establishes a home modification grant program.

Requires prescription drug manufacturers to file annual reports and health carriers to file annual cost-sharing reports.

Authorizes dentists to prescribe and administer vaccines or immunizations for influenza or SARS-CoV-2 to patients.

Prohibits hospitals and nursing facilities from instituting policies that limit a patient from receiving visitors during a public health emergency.

Establishes the safe and sound program.

Requires the development of a resource for parents/guardians of children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

Prohibits non-medical switching.

Makes changes to mental health and disability services regions and funding.

Requires suicide prevention and postvention, and the identification of adverse childhood experiences and strategies to mitigate toxic stress response adopted by schools address the needs of students who are at higher risk for suicide.

Provides that a woman who is 18 or who has attained her majority by marriage has the legal capacity to consent to a hysterectomy.

Requires Medicaid to expand non-licensed practitioners providing EPSDT services.

Expands the direct care workforce registry.

Prohibits a landlord from denying housing to a person with a disability who has a support animal.

Adds prekindergarten students enrolled in special education programs in the September 1 deadline for open enrollment.

Makes provisions related to Medicaid processes and oversight.

Allows governments to publish notice electronically in lieu of newspaper publication.

Allows a dealer to not accept beverage containers if the dealer enters into a contract with a dealer agent or redemption center.

Requires a tenant request for an accommodation of a service animal must be reasonable.

Makes provisions related to opening, administration, and termination of adult guardianships and adult and minor conservatorships.

Urges the US Congress to approve legislation allowing states flexibility in determining COVID-19 visitation parameters at nursing facilities.

Requires schools that have an enrolled student with epilepsy or seizure disorder to provide training to certain employees.

Makes sexual exploitation of a student with a disability by a community college employee a criminal offense.

Changes the date by which an absentee ballot request must be received and the date by which a ballot must be postmarked.

Allows a candidate to pay for dependent care expenses using campaign funds.

Proposes new education initiatives and changes to existing law.

Would require schools to offer full-time in person learning options for students during the pandemic. Allows parents/guardians to notify the school district specifying preferred instruction delivery method for students.

Requires DIA to establish a direct care workforce database system and advisory council, and tasks agencies with supportive assignments.

Requires area education agencies to provide services and supports on nonpublic school premises.

Make income earned by a person working for a nonprofit organization that provides services to individuals with disabilities or mental illness from state income tax.

Prohibits non-medical switching.

Requires DHS to move Medicaid long-term services and supports from MCOs to fee-for-service administration.

Makes several provisions related to vaccinations and immunizations.

Increases the maximum amount that may be considered in calculating the elderly and disabled property tax credit or rent reimbursement.

Includes transportation as a core service under the regional mental health and disability services system.

Makes changes relating to the administration of adult and minor guardianships and conservatorships.

Requires DHS to conduct a reimbursement rate review for long-term services and supports providers.

Makes provisions related to public assistance program oversight.

Makes provisions related to broadband service availability and administration of the empower rural Iowa broadband grant fund.

Requires any law enforcement report regarding a person experiencing a mental health crisis, substance-related disorder crisis, or housing crisis to be kept confidential in certain circumstances.

Makes several provisions related to conducting elections, including absentee ballots, satellite absentee voting locations, voter list maintenance, and authority of state commissioner of elections. Takes effect upon enactment.

Eliminates Senate confirmation for Governor's appointees to several boards and councils.

Establishes an education savings grant program.

Amends the definition of dependent adult abuse.

Provides for electronic publication of public notices by certain governmental bodies and officers.

Limits the voting rights of the voting members of a mental health and disability services region governing board.

Adopts the interstate occupational therapy licensure compact.

Allows a person other than the account owner of an Iowa ABLE savings trust to enter into a participation agreement and have signature authority over the account on behalf of the account owner.

Allows voters who have certain physical disabilities to receive an electronic absentee ballot.

Allows funds to be transferred to an individual's Iowa ABLE savings plan trust account.

Makes changes to the Medicaid program.

Changes closing time for polling places and time provided to employees to vote.

Requires health insurance carriers to reimburse for services provided by telehealth at the same rate as in-person services.

Excludes all retirement income from individual income tax by 2025.

Increases the the amount of retirement income that can be excluded from net income calculation for certain taxpayers.

Amends current law governing adult and minor guardianships and conservatorships.

Makes provisions related to the review and sunset of state boards and agencies and the regulation of professions.

Adds prekindergarten students enrolled in special education programs in the September 1 deadline for open enrollment.

Establishes certain criminal offenses and civil actions against older adults and dependent adults.

Allows a redemption center dealer to not accept beverage containers for redemption.

Requires health insurance providers to offer coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of PANS and PANDAS for patients 18 and younger.

Makes provisions related to elections during emergencies.

Makes provisions regarding Medicaid non-emergency medical transportation.

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