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Issues & Policy Briefs
- "Health Care for All" Initiative
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Funding for Health & Human Services
- Click here for a detail on the final budget passed (prepared by the Legislative Services Agency).
Click here for a copy of the Enrolled Bill (the final version - beware it is more than 150 pages long).
Click here to see who is on the Health & Human Services Budget Subcommittee.
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MH/MR/DD/BI Funding
- Four legislators are making up the team to hammer out the details of funding for the state-county funding system for mental health, mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and brain injury services.
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Mental Health Transformation Project
- Click here to view the Emergency Mental Health Services bills - SF 2163 & HF 2493.
"Health Care for All" Initiative
- Click here for a summary of the bill (section by section), prepared by Iowa Department of Public Health.
- Click here to view the bill - HF 2539
- Click here for the analysis of the bill prepared by the Legislative Services Agency.
- Click here to view a side-by-side comparison of earlier House & Senate reform initiatives.
Access to Psychiatric Drugs
- Click here for Talking Points from NAMI Iowa and Iowa Psychiatric Society.
- Click here to review the law that excludes psychiatric drugs from any Preferred Drug List.
Epilepsy & Seizure Disorder Drug Safety
- Click here for an Action Alert from the Iowa Epilepsy Foundation.
- Click here for a Question & Answer sheet from the Iowa Epilepsy Foundation.
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