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Provides for discharge, educational, and workforce credits for defendants on probation.

Makes changes to judicial branch administration.

Increases renewal notice requirement for personal lines insurance policies from 30 days to 60 days.

Allows an ambulance service to transport a person experiencing a mental health crisis to a mental health access center.

Makes changes to HHS processes concerning adoption information sharing, dependent adult abuse, juvenile court records, and mandatory reporter training.

Creates the Opioid Settlement Future Fund and an Opioid Epidemic Response Advisory Council.

Requires a utilization review organization to respond to a request for a prior authorization within a certain amount of time.

Creates the social work licensure compact.

Allows a person licensed outside the state as a marital and family therapist or mental health counselor to apply for state licensure.

Makes changes to organization, structure, and functions of state and local governments.

Directs HHS to submit a Medicaid waiver request to provide coverage for certain inmates due to be released.

Makes numerous changes to state boards, commissions, committees, councils, and other state government entities.

Requires certain school districts to employ security personnel and authorizes school employees to be issued weapons permits.

Makes changes to the duties of the Iowa Secretary of State in regards to the address confidentiality program and the conduct of elections.

Charges Iowa Department of Education (DE) to oversee AEA operations and changes how AEAs are funded and operate.

Changes property tax assessment limitations for commercial child care facilities.  

Requires health insurance to cover biomarker testing. 

Appropriates funds from the opioid settlement fund for opioid prevention, treatment, recovery, and infrastructure activities. 

Reduces tax rates for casinos and racetracks.

Makes several provisions related to law enforcement.

Establishes an easy enrollment health care coverage program.

Requires Medicaid MCOs to pay providers 100 percent of items or services for which prior authorization was obtained.

Makes several provisions to combat human trafficking.

Makes changes related to the certificate of need process for health facilities.

Repeals gender balance requirements for appointed local and state government boards, councils, commissions.

Expands Medicaid coverage for pregnant women and infants while adjusting the income eligibility levels.

Makes changes to certain HHS reporting requirements.

Requires a criminal defendant to issue a subpoena for documents and evidence through an application to the court.

Allocates funds from the opioid settlement fund.

The Governor's tax bill.

Establishes the behavioral health service system.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to set a flat rate for individual income taxes and to require two-thirds approval of both legislative chambers for increasing tax rates.

Recognizes the term "brain health" in order to combat stigma around mental health and encouraging early treatment and preventative measures for brain-related issues in Iowa.

Eliminates individual income tax.

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