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IowaSF 64191st General Assembly (2025–2026)SenateWALLET
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.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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8 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 4 mixed.
Insurance help for foster families
The state creates a foster family home insurance fund. It can pay for home and property damage caused by a foster child. It can also reimburse foster parents for foster care liability insurance. The department may set per‑claim limits. Effective June 6, 2025.
Local access and advocates for mental health
Each county must appoint an advocate for people the court involuntarily hospitalizes. The advocate cannot be a department, ASO, facility, or disability access point employee. The department also names local disability access points to give person‑centered help to people with disabilities and their caregivers. Effective June 6, 2025.
More say for foster caregivers
Foster parents and approved kinship caregivers get day‑to‑day decision power under the reasonable and prudent parent standard. The department must invite them to planning and review meetings and give timely notices, including before most removals. Caregivers must receive the child’s health records at or before placement, plus steps to get missing information and emergency coverage during brief out‑of‑state travel. Their records, and the child’s, are kept private by law. The department also cannot make rules on diet, activities, behavior management, or education programs for individual foster homes and approved kin caregivers. Effective June 6, 2025.
Kin support and extended foster care
When a child is placed with a relative or fictive kin who is not a licensed foster parent or an approved kin caregiver, the assignment‑of‑support rule does not apply. Licensed individual caregivers and approved kin caregivers remain subject to assignment. Youth 18 and older can stay in or return to care with a licensed foster parent, an approved kin caregiver, or in supervised apartment living. Effective June 6, 2025.
Stronger safety checks for foster care
People seeking a foster license, approval, child‑care duties job, or residence in a licensed facility must provide fingerprints for an FBI check. The department pays the FBI check cost and may give provisional approval while it waits for results. People with listed felony convictions (including within the past five years) cannot be licensed, approved, employed, or reside in a foster setting. Facility administrators may receive relevant protected data about job applicants or staff. Foster care facility staff and operators are now included in the related statutory list in child‑protection law. Effective June 6, 2025.
ASO workers treated as public employees
If you work for an administrative services organization, the law treats you as a public employee for covered purposes. This can affect your benefits and rules tied to public employment. Effective June 6, 2025.
Kin caregiver approval and home limits
Kin caregivers must apply to the department and be approved before giving foster care. The department can deny or revoke approval after notice and a hearing for violations. Care can only be given at the locations listed on the approval or license. A caregiver cannot take more children than authorized unless the department gives written permission. Effective June 6, 2025.
Foster parent training rules and waivers
To get a first license, a foster parent must finish 30 hours of training. To renew, they must complete six hours each year. The department can waive all or part of training for prior training, experience, or good cause. Active military who cannot finish the six hours before renewal are treated as compliant. Effective June 6, 2025.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
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Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/13/2025
Passed House
Yes: 91 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/29/2025
Passed Senate
Yes: 48 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by Governor.
6/6/2025GovernorReported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
5/23/2025SenateExplanation of vote.
5/20/2025legislatureNOBA: Final
5/14/2025legislatureMessage from House.
5/13/2025HouseImmediate message.
5/13/2025legislaturePassed House, yeas 91, nays 0.
5/13/2025HouseSubstituted for HF 1042.
5/13/2025legislatureRead first time, passed on file.
5/12/2025legislatureMessage from Senate.
4/30/2025SenateNOBA: Senate Floor
4/29/2025SenateImmediate message.
4/29/2025legislaturePassed Senate, yeas 48, nays 0.
4/29/2025SenateAmendment S-3140 filed, adopted.
4/29/2025legislatureNOBA: Senate Full Approps
4/28/2025SenateCommittee report, approving bill.
4/23/2025legislatureIntroduced, placed on Appropriations calendar.
4/23/2025legislature
Bill Text
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