Elder Law Section Legislative Report
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:38 PM
| BILL | TITLE | SUMMARY | STATUS | ISBA Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF 2379 | A bill for an act relating to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights. (Formerly SSB 3089.) | This bill relates to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights. DIVISION I. The bill provides that a victim counselor, or a clerk, secretary, stenographer, or any other employee... Full Bill Text |
Message from House, with amendment S-5178 . (4/14/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2704 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights.(Formerly HSB 570.) | This bill relates to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights. DIVISION I. The bill provides that a victim counselor, or a clerk, secretary, stenographer, or any other employee... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (4/13/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2232 | A bill for an act relating to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults. (Formerly HSB 516.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | This bill relates to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults. Under current law, a delay of a disbursement or transaction involving the money, assets, or property of an eligible adult will expire upon the first to occur of: (1) a determination... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | |
| SF 2198 | A bill for an act relating to the authority of an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care. (Formerly SSB 3020.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | This bill relates to the authority of an attorney in fact (attorney) under a durable power of attorney for health care (durable power of attorney). Current law provides that an attorney under a durable power of attorney has the duty to act in accordance with the... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Support |
| SF 2215 | A bill for an act relating to the applicability of the standard nonforfeiture law for individual deferred annuities to contingent deferred annuities. (Formerly SSB 3064.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | This bill provides that subsections 2 through 7 of Code section 508.38 (standard nonforfeitures ?? deferred annuities) shall not apply to contingent deferred annuities, except that the commissioner of insurance may prescribe by rule nonforfeiture benefits for contingent deferred annuities that the commissioner deems equitable... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| HF 940 | A bill for an act relating to civil law, including providing notice to named beneficiaries in probate law, a process for named beneficiaries to obtain ownership of property held by others in probate law, and authorizing spouses to amend premarital agreements, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 713.) | This bill relates to probate law regarding notice provided to named beneficiaries. The bill provides that if a holder of property that has a beneficiary designation owned by a decedent has been notified of the death of the decedent, the property holder shall within 10... Full Bill Text |
Senate amendment H-8334 filed. (4/8/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2305 | A bill for an act relating to health care decisions related to palliative care, hospice programs, life-sustaining procedures, out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate orders, and durable power of attorney for health care. (Formerly HF 708.) | This bill relates to health care decisions related to palliative care, hospice programs, life-sustaining procedures, and out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate orders. Current law requires a hospice program to provide palliative care in order to be eligible for a license. The bill removes this requirement and requires a hospice... Full Bill Text |
Amendment S-5140 filed. (3/30/26) | Undecided |
| SF 2338 | A bill for an act relating to alignment of delivery of health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services, and including applicability and effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3082.) | This bill relates to activities, programs, and services under the purview of the department of health and human services (HHS). DIVISION I ?? HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DISTRICTS. The bill directs HHS to divide the state into health and human services districts (districts), as defined in... Full Bill Text |
Amendment S-5139 filed. (3/30/26) | Monitor |
| HF 385 | A bill for an act relating to discharge of involuntarily committed persons from a facility or a hospital. (Formerly HF 124.) | This bill relates to discharge of involuntarily committed persons from a facility or a hospital (facility). The bill requires, prior to the discharge of a person that was committed for a substance use disorder or hospitalized for inpatient care for a serious mental impairment, that the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Support |
| HF 2633 | A bill for an act relating to living organ donors and life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term care insurance.(Formerly HF 2193.) | This bill relates to insurance requirements applicable to living organ donors. The bill defines "policy" as a life insurance policy, disability insurance policy, or long-term care insurance policy. A "living organ donor" (donor) is defined as an individual who is not deceased and who has donated... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2641 | A bill for an act relating to the Medicaid home and community-based services elderly waiver program, including transition planning and assisted living services.(Formerly HSB 739.) | This bill relates to the Medicaid home and community-based services elderly waiver program (elderly waiver), including transition planning and assisted living services. The bill directs the department of health and human services (HHS) to adopt rules to allow case managers and care coordination team members to... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2707 | A bill for an act relating to alignment of delivery of health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services, and including applicability and effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 622.) | This bill relates to activities, programs, and services under the purview of the department of health and human services (HHS). DIVISION I ?? HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DISTRICTS. The bill directs HHS to divide the state into health and human services districts (districts), as defined in... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8266 filed. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2454 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults.(Formerly SSB 3094.) | This bill relates to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults. Under current law, a delay of a disbursement or transaction involving the money, assets, or property of an eligible adult will expire upon the first to occur of: (1) a determination... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/23/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2562 | A bill for an act relating to care facility placement decisions for certain adults. (Formerly HSB 653.) | This bill relates to care facility placement decisions for certain adults. The bill defines "authorized representative" as an agent, attorney in fact, conservator, or guardian. "Person authorized to consent" (authorized person) is defined as a member of any of the following groups of individuals, in order... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2423 | A bill for an act relating to care facility placement decisions for certain adults.(Formerly SSB 3096.) | This bill relates to care facility placement decisions for certain adults. The bill defines "authorized representative" as an agent, attorney in fact, conservator, or guardian. "Person authorized to consent" (authorized person) is defined as a member of any of the following groups of individuals, in order... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2518 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the department of health and human services and reporting requirements for shelter care, residential treatment, and Medicaid provider reimbursement rates, and establishing provider reimbursement rates for Medicaid home and community-based waiver services. (Formerly HSB 621.) | This bill relates to reporting requirements for the department of health and human services (HHS) for shelter care, qualified residential treatment providers, and medical assistance provider reimbursement rates. The bill requires that upon implementation of a uniform cost report for shelter care and qualified residential treatment... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2570 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the authority of an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care.(Formerly HSB 161.) | This bill relates to the authority of an attorney in fact (attorney) under a durable power of attorney for health care (durable power of attorney). Current law provides that an attorney under a durable power of attorney has the duty to act in accordance with the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/10/26) | Support |
| HF 708 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to health care decisions related to palliative care, hospice programs, life-sustaining procedures, and out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate orders.(See HF 2305.) | This bill relates to health care decisions related to palliative care, hospice programs, life-sustaining procedures, and out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate orders. Current law requires a hospice program to provide palliative care in order to be eligible for a license. The bill removes this requirement and requires a hospice... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/9/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2708 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and causing injury, and providing penalties. | Under current law, a person who unintentionally causes the death of another by operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OWI) commits a class "B" felony. A person who unintentionally causes a serious injury by OWI commits a class "D" felony. "Serious injury" is defined to... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Public Safety. (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 622 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to alignment of delivery of health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services, and including applicability and effective date provisions.(See HF 2707.) | This bill relates to activities, programs, and services under the purview of the department of health and human services (HHS). DIVISION I ?? HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DISTRICTS. The bill districts (districts), as defined in the bill, to be used by HHS in the delivery of... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2707 (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2362 - Dead | A bill for an act establishing a long-term care workforce solutions interim committee. | This bill establishes a long-term care workforce solutions interim committee (interim committee) that shall convene during the 2026 legislative interim to review the status of the state's long-term care workforce, ways to improve the long-term care workforce, and factors that affect the long-term care workforce... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Sweeney, Trone Garriott, and Webster. (2/19/26) | Undecided |
| SSB 3094 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults.(See SF 2454.) | This bill relates to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults. Under current law, a delay of a disbursement or transaction involving the money, assets, or property of an eligible adult will expire upon the first to occur of: (1) a determination... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2454 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 161 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the authority of an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care.(See HF 2570.) | This bill relates to the authority of an attorney in fact (attorney) under a durable power of attorney for health care (durable power of attorney). Current law provides that an attorney under a durable power of attorney has the duty to act in accordance with the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2570 (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3089 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights.(See SF 2379.) | This bill relates to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights. DIVISION I. The bill provides that a victim counselor, or a clerk, secretary, stenographer, or any other employee... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2379 (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2262 - Dead | A bill for an act creating the Iowa our care, our options Act, and providing penalties. | This bill creates the Iowa our care, our options Act. The bill includes findings relating to end-of-life care and treatment options and provides definitions of terms used in the bill. The bill provides a process for an adult patient who is mentally capable, is a resident of... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee Meeting: 02/17/2026 12:00PM RM 19 (Cancelled). (2/16/26) | |
| HSB 621 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to reporting requirements for the department of health and human services for shelter care, qualified residential treatment providers, and medical assistance provider reimbursement rates.(See HF 2518.) | This bill relates to reporting requirements for the department of health and human services (HHS) for shelter care, qualified residential treatment providers, and medical assistance provider reimbursement rates. The bill requires that upon implementation of a uniform cost report for shelter care and qualified residential treatment... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2518. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 653 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to care facility placement decisions for certain adults.(See HF 2562.) | This bill relates to care facility placement decisions for certain adults. The bill defines "authorized representative" as an agent, attorney in fact, conservator, or guardian. "Person authorized to consent" (authorized person) is defined as a member of any of the following groups of individuals, in order... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2562. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 724 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to notarial acts, recording of instruments affecting real property, quiet title proceedings, and providing penalties. | This bill relates to notarial acts, recording of instruments affecting real property, quiet title proceedings, and theft. The bill creates a new criminal offense for a notarial officer who performs a notarial act without requiring the personal appearance of the individual, or requiring the use of... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3082 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to alignment of delivery of health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services, and including applicability and effective date provisions.(See SF 2338.) | This bill relates to activities, programs, and services under the purview of the department of health and human services (HHS). DIVISION I ?? HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DISTRICTS. The bill districts (districts), as defined in the bill, to be used by HHS in the delivery of... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2338. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2350 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the suspension of a driver's license issued to a person physically or mentally incapable of safely operating a motor vehicle.(Formerly HSB 560.) | Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) is authorized to establish rules providing for the suspension of a driver's license upon 30 days' notice and without preliminary hearing upon a showing by the DOT's records or other sufficient evidence that, among other things, a... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/9/26) | Undecided |
| SSB 3064 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the applicability of the standard nonforfeiture law for individual deferred annuities to contingent deferred annuities.(See SF 2215.) | This bill provides that subsections 2 through 7 of Code section 508.38 (standard nonforfeitures ?? deferred annuities) shall not apply to contingent deferred annuities, except that the commissioner of insurance may prescribe by rule nonforfeiture benefits for contingent deferred annuities that the commissioner deems equitable... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2215 (2/4/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 516 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults.(See HF 2232.) | This bill relates to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults. Under current law, a delay of a disbursement or transaction involving the money, assets, or property of an eligible adult will expire upon the first to occur of: (1) a determination... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2232 (1/30/26) | Undecided |
| HF 986 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of insurance and financial services, the utilities commission, and the department of transportation, including financial literacy and exploitation, tax confidentiality, health insurance rates, health savings accounts, insurer withdrawals, property insurance, service contracts, the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association, and the Iowa cemetery Act, motor vehicle financial liability coverage, and including penalties and effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 911, HSB 256.) | This bill relates to matters under the purview of the department of insurance and financial services including financial literacy and exploitation, tax confidentiality, health insurance rates, health savings accounts, insurer withdrawals, property insurance, and service contracts. DIVISION I ?? FINANCIAL LITERACY AND FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION. Division I appropriates... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Bousselot, Blake, and Rowley. (1/22/26) | Monitor |
| SF 536 | A bill for an act relating to the office of long-term care ombudsman and making an appropriation. | This bill relates the office of long-term care ombudsman and makes an appropriation. The bill appropriates funds from the general fund of the state to the office of long-term care ombudsman for FY 2025-2026 to be used to increase the number of local long-term care ombudsmen.... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Zumbach, Blake, and Costello. (3/11/25) | Monitor |