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IntroducedFeb 16, 2026
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Passed HouseMar 02, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Iowa House Bill
A bill for an act relating to mental health care, including subacute mental health care facility requirements; admission to and discharge from a subacute mental health care facility; employment requirements at a subacute mental health care facility; insurance coverage for subacute mental health care; and the establishment of a psychiatric medical institution for children bed tracking system, and providing penalties and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HF 2220.)
Summary
Comments on HF 2543
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESprimary

Votes
YES: 89
- Andrews
- Baeth
- Barker
- Behn
- Bergan
- Blom
- Bloomingdale
- Boden
- Bossman
- Bradley
- Brown-Powers
- Cisneros
- Collins
- Cooling
- Croken
- Determann
- Dieken
- Dunwell
- Ehlert
- Fett
- Fisher
- Gearhart
- Gehlbach
- Gjerde
- Golding
- Gosa
- Grassley
- Gustoff
- Harris
- Hayes
- Henderson
- Hermanson
- Holt
- Hora
- Ingels
- Jacoby
- James
- Jeneary
- Johnson, C.
- Johnson, R.
- Jones
- Judge
- Kaufmann
- Konfrst
- Kressig
- Larson
- Latham
- Lawler
- Levin
- Lohse
- Lundgren
- Matson
- McBurney
- Meggers
- Meyer, A.
- Meyer, B.
- Mohr
- Mommsen
- Moore
- Nielsen
- Nordman
- Olson
- Ramirez
- Rinker
- Scholten
- Shipley
- Sieck
- Siegrist
- Sitzmann
- Smith
- Sorensen
- Stone
- Thompson
- Thomson
- Turek
- Vondran
- Watkins
- Weldon
- Wengryn
- Wheeler
- Wichtendahl
- Wilburn
- Williams
- Wilson
- Windschitl
- Wood
- Wulf
- Young
- Wills
NO: 0
ABSENT: 13
Actions
- Mar 09, 2026 | House
- Withdrawn.
- Feb 16, 2026 | House
- Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2543.
- Feb 12, 2026 | House
- Committee report, recommending passage.
- Committee vote: Yeas, 18. Nays, 0. Excused, 3.
- Feb 10, 2026 | House
- Subcommittee recommends passage.
- Feb 04, 2026 | House
- Subcommittee Meeting: 02/10/2026 8:45AM RM 304.
- Feb 03, 2026 | House
- Subcommittee: Meyer, A., Johnson, C. and Johnson, R.
- Jan 30, 2026 | House
- Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services.
Bill Texts
