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Iowa · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Proposed Bill

HSB 777: A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; transfers, cash flow, and nonreversions; report on nonreversion of moneys; more options for maternal support program; reimbursement rates review; mental diseases exclusion waiver; community health centers reimbursement; full-time equivalent dashboard; comprehensive family support program; federal community mental health services block grant; child welfare and juvenile justice decategorization; commitment or hospitalization of certain persons with substance abuse disorders or mental illness; behavioral health expenditure report; and opioid settlement fund; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HSB 777 is a proposed bill introduced in the Iowa House on April 13, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; transfers, cash flow, and nonreversions; report on nonreversion of moneys; more options for maternal support program; reimbursement rates review; mental diseases exclusion waiver; community health centers reimbursement; full-time equivalent dashboard; comprehensive family support program; federal community mental health services block grant; child welfare and juvenile justice decategorization; commitment or hospitalization of certain persons with substance abuse disorders or mental illness; behavioral health expenditure report; and opioid settlement fund; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. Primary sponsor: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS. Most recent recorded action (April 21, 2026): Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2782.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONSPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2782.
  2. Committee vote: Yeas, 15. Nays, 7. Excused, 3.
  3. Committee report, recommending passage.
  4. NOBA: House Sub
  5. Subcommittee: Meyer, A., Baeth, Barker, Gearhart, Judge, Moore, T., Rinker, Turek and Watkins.
  6. Introduced, referred to Appropriations.

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source