Bill Text: IA HF2197 | 2019-2020 | 88th General Assembly | Enrolled


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the medical residency training state matching grants program rural rotation requirement. (Formerly HF 2052.) Effective date: 07/01/2020.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2020-06-25 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 789. [HF2197 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2019-HF2197-Enrolled.html
House File 2197 - Enrolled House File 2197 AN ACT RELATING TO THE MEDICAL RESIDENCY TRAINING STATE MATCHING GRANTS PROGRAM RURAL ROTATION REQUIREMENT. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. Section 135.176, subsection 2, paragraph g, Code 2020, is amended to read as follows: g. A requirement that the residency program offer persons to whom a primary care , including psychiatry, residency position is awarded, the opportunity to participate in a rural rotation to expose the resident to the rural areas of the state. For the purposes of this paragraph, “primary care” shall include psychiatry, obstetrics, gynecology, family medicine, internal medicine, and emergency medicine. Sec. 2. 2019 Iowa Acts, chapter 55, section 3, subsection 1, is amended to read as follows: 1. The university of Iowa hospitals and clinics shall give priority in awarding federal residency positions as established under the federal Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Pub. L. No. 105-33, to applicants who are residents of Iowa, attended and earned an undergraduate degree from an Iowa college or university, or attended and earned a medical degree from a medical school in Iowa. The university of Iowa hospitals and clinics shall also provide persons to whom a primary care , including psychiatry, residency position is awarded, the opportunity to participate in a rural rotation to expose the resident to rural areas of the state. For the purposes of this
House File 2197, p. 2 subsection, “primary care” shall include psychiatry, obstetrics, gynecology, family medicine, internal medicine, and emergency medicine. ______________________________ PAT GRASSLEY Speaker of the House ______________________________ CHARLES SCHNEIDER President of the Senate I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2197, Eighty-eighth General Assembly. ______________________________ MEGHAN NELSON Chief Clerk of the House Approved _______________, 2020 ______________________________ KIM REYNOLDS Governor
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