SF 2196 – Department of Public Health Omnibus
FLOOR ACTION:
SF 2196, as amended on the floor, requires certain professionals to take blood-borne pathogens training consistent with OSHA standards; moves the repeal date from 2014 to 2016 for specified programs under the Health Care Workforce Support Initiative; adds the Fulfilling Iowa’s Need for Dentists (FIND) program to the Health Care Workforce Support Initiative; eliminates mandatory inspections of salons, barbershops and places where dead bodies are prepared or held, and instead institutes permissive inspections based on complaints; removes reference to sheet metal master license because such licenses are not actually available; and requires at least half, rather than a simple majority, of Board of Medicine disciplinary hearing panels to consist of Board members. [4/8: 49-0 (House excused)]