Bill Text: IA HF2052 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to eligible providers under the state family planning services program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-22 - Introduced, referred to Human Resources. H.J. 123. [HF2052 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF2052-Introduced.html

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House File 2052 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  CARLSON

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to eligible providers under the state family
  2    planning services program.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 217.41B, subsection 3, Code 2018, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    3.a.  (1)  Distribution of family planning services program
  1  4 funds shall not be made to any entity that performs abortions
  1  5 or that maintains or operates a facility where abortions
  1  6 are performed, which shall not be interpreted to include a
  1  7 nonpublic entity that is a distinct location of a nonprofit
  1  8 health care delivery system, if the distinct location provides
  1  9 family planning services but does not perform abortions
  1 10 or maintain or operate as a facility where abortions are
  1 11 performed.
  1 12    (2)  The department of human services shall adopt rules
  1 13 pursuant to chapter 17A to require that as a condition of
  1 14 eligibility as a provider under the family planning services
  1 15 program, each distinct location of a nonprofit health care
  1 16 delivery system shall enroll in the program as a separate
  1 17 provider, be assigned a distinct provider identification
  1 18 number, and complete an attestation that abortions are not
  1 19 performed at the distinct location. 
  1 20    (3)  For the purposes of this section, "nonprofit health
  1 21 care delivery system" means an Iowa nonprofit corporation
  1 22 that controls, directly or indirectly, a regional health
  1 23 care network consisting of hospital facilities and various
  1 24 ambulatory and clinic locations that provide a range of
  1 25 primary, secondary, and tertiary inpatient, outpatient, and
  1 26 physician services.
  1 27    b.  For the purposes of this section, "abortion" does not
  1 28 include any of the following:
  1 29    a.  (1)  The treatment of a woman for a physical
  1 30 disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a
  1 31 life=endangering physical condition caused by or arising from
  1 32 the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician,
  1 33 place the woman in danger of death.
  1 34    b.  (2)  The treatment of a woman for a spontaneous abortion,
  1 35 commonly known as a miscarriage, when not all of the products
  2  1 of human conception are expelled.
  2  2                           EXPLANATION
  2  3 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  2  4 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  2  5    This bill provides for the participation of certain
  2  6 providers in the state family planning services program.  Under
  2  7 the state family planning services program, distribution of
  2  8 family planning services program funds are prohibited from
  2  9 being made to any entity that performs abortions or that
  2 10 maintains or operates a facility where abortions are performed.
  2 11 The bill provides that any entity that performs abortions or
  2 12 that maintains or operates a facility where abortions are
  2 13 performed is not to be interpreted to include a nonpublic
  2 14 entity that is a distinct location of a nonprofit health care
  2 15 delivery system, if the distinct location provides family
  2 16 planning services but does not perform abortions or maintain
  2 17 or operate as a facility where abortions are performed.  The
  2 18 bill directs the department of human services to adopt rules
  2 19 pursuant to Code chapter 17A  to require that as a condition of
  2 20 eligibility as a provider under the family planning services
  2 21 program, each distinct location of a nonprofit health care
  2 22 delivery system shall enroll in the program as a separate
  2 23 provider, be assigned a distinct provider identification
  2 24 number, and complete an attestation regarding non=provision
  2 25 of abortions at the distinct location.  The bill defines
  2 26 "nonprofit health care delivery system" as an Iowa nonprofit
  2 27 corporation that controls, directly or indirectly, a regional
  2 28 health care network consisting of hospital facilities and
  2 29 various ambulatory and clinic locations that provide a range
  2 30 of primary, secondary, and tertiary inpatient, outpatient, and
  2 31 physician services.
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