All Roll Calls
Yes: 228 • No: 0
IowaHF 93391st General Assembly (2025–2026)HouseWALLET
A bill for an act relating to pediatric palliative care centers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 267.) Effective date: 05/27/2025.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Signed by Governor
health and human services
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
New funding access for children's care centers
Beginning May 27, 2025, Iowa requires a special license category for pediatric palliative care centers within residential care facilities. These centers must mainly serve eligible patients and provide only hospice services and respite care, which gives caregivers a break. Patients must be under 21 with a chronic, complex, life-threatening illness that shortens life expectancy; survival past 21 is not expected. Qualifying centers gain access to hospice and residential-care funding, but the law sets no funding amount. Sources include the federal social services block grant, state supplementary assistance, hospice respite benefits, home and community-based services waivers, Medicaid funding, and respite benefits available to nursing facilities. Licensed centers are exempt from Iowa Code section 10A.713. The Department of Health and Human Services must set rules and can use emergency rules effective upon filing, unless a later date is specified, while also publishing proposed rules.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/8/2025
Passed House
Yes: 84 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/23/2025
Passed Senate
Yes: 47 • No: 0
House vote • 3/25/2025
Passed House
Yes: 97 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by Governor.
5/27/2025HouseReported correctly enrolled, signed by Speaker and President, and sent to Governor.
5/19/2025HouseExplanation of vote.
5/13/2025HouseMessage from House.
5/9/2025SenateImmediate message.
5/8/2025HousePassed House, yeas 84, nays 0.
5/8/2025HouseHouse concurred in Senate amendment H-1282.
5/8/2025HouseSenate amendment H-1282 filed.
4/24/2025HouseMessage from Senate.
4/24/2025HouseImmediate message.
4/23/2025SenatePassed Senate, yeas 47, nays 0.
4/23/2025SenateAmendment S-3131 filed, adopted.
4/23/2025SenateExplanation of vote.
4/22/2025HousePlaced on calendar under unfinished business.
4/10/2025SenatePlaced on calendar.
4/3/2025legislatureCommittee report, recommending passage.
4/3/2025SenateSubcommittee recommends passage.
4/2/2025legislatureSubcommittee Meeting: 04/02/2025 11:00AM Room 217 Conference Room.
3/31/2025legislatureSubcommittee: Sweeney, Trone Garriott, and Warme.
3/31/2025SenateReferred to Health and Human Services.
3/26/2025SenateRead first time, passed on file.
3/25/2025SenateMessage from House.
3/25/2025SenateImmediate message.
3/25/2025HousePassed House, yeas 97, nays 0.
3/25/2025HouseAmendment H-1160 adopted.
3/25/2025House
Bill Text
As Introduced
Enrolled
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