Iowa 2023-2024 Regular Session

Iowa Senate Bill SF5

Introduced
1/9/23  
Introduced
1/9/23  

Caption

A bill for an act relating to health care employment agency reporting requirements.

Impact

The adjustment to the reporting requirements is expected to have implications for transparency in the healthcare employment industry. By removing the requirement for agencies to report what they pay their workers, the bill could reduce oversight regarding worker compensation and potentially impact wage negotiations within the sector. Proponents of the bill argue that this will lead to more efficient operations for agencies, allowing them to focus on compliance in relation to the charges presented to health care providers rather than internal salary structures.

Summary

Senate File 5, sponsored by Senator Zaun, introduces modifications to the reporting requirements for health care employment agencies operating in Iowa. Specifically, the bill aims to streamline the reporting process by eliminating the necessity for agencies to disclose the average payments made to their workers in various categories. This change is designed to lighten the administrative burden on the agencies and focus on the financials charged to the health care entities they contract with, particularly those involved in Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Contention

Critics of SF5 may express concerns that the changes could foster a lack of transparency regarding worker wages in the health care sector. There are apprehensions that without the requirement to report average payments to agency workers, there may be less accountability regarding fair pay practices. This could particularly affect workers in agency roles who rely on fair compensation, especially in a field where the demand for skilled labor has been rising yet wages often do not reflect this demand. Stakeholders advocating for workforce protections may seek to challenge this aspect of the bill on the grounds that it undermines workers' rights and the state's commitment to maintaining fair labor standards.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

IA HF2391

A bill for an act relating to health care employment agencies, including the statewide maximum allowable charges schedule applicable to nursing services provided by health care employment agency workers, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HF 2199.)

IA HF2199

A bill for an act relating to health care employment agencies, including the statewide maximum allowable charges schedule applicable to nursing services provided by health care employment agency workers, providing penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(See HF 2391.)

IA SF327

A bill for an act relating to health care employment agencies, health care employment agency workers, and health care entities, providing for the use of annual registration fees, and including retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 1044.)

IA SSB1044

A bill for an act relating to health care employment agencies, health care employment agency workers, and health care entities, and including retroactive applicability provisions.(See SF 327.)

IA HSB24

A bill for an act relating to health care employment agencies, health care employment agency workers, and health care entities, and including retroactive applicability provisions.(See HF 357.)

IA HF357

A bill for an act relating to health care employment agencies, health care employment agency workers, and health care entities, providing for the use of annual registration fees, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 24.) Effective date: 07/01/2023. Applicability date: 01/01/2019.

IA HF2698

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for veterans and health and human services, including other related provisions and appropriations including but not limited to the personal needs allowance for certain persons under Medicaid and the state supplementary assistance programs, replacement generation tax revenues, the Medicaid fraud and health care trust funds, the retention of certain revenues by the mental health institutes, the retention of Medicaid eligibility by residents of mental health institutes, the scope of services of the state resource centers, the appropriation of moneys in the juvenile detention home fund, the family investment program account and diversion program, the child support collection services center refund account, the quality assurance assessment payment period, the centers of excellence grant program, an assisted living program revised payment model study, funding for county commissions of veteran affairs, foster care provisions including those relating to a relative or fictive kin, health care employment agencies and health care technology platforms, medical cannabidiol practitioner requirements, nursing facility oversight, and state-funded psychiatry residency and fellowship positions, providing penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. Effective date: 05/09/2024, 07/01/2024. Applicability date: 07/01/2022, 07/01/2023.

IA HB282

AN ACT relating to health care services agencies.

IA SF567

A bill for an act relating to health care services and financing including nursing facility licensing and financing and the Medicaid program including third-party recovery and taxation of Medicaid managed care organization premiums, and providing for licensee discipline.(Formerly SF 462, SSB 1167.)

IA SF434

A bill for an act relating to hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and health care facilities, including information and reporting requirements.

Similar Bills

No similar bills found.