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STATE OF IOWA
KIM REYNOLDS
G OVERNOR
May 1, 2025
The Honorable Paul Pate
Secretary of State of Iowa
State Capitol
Des Moines, Iowa 50319
Dear Mr. Secretary,
I hereby transmit:
House File 887, an Act removing birth centers from the meaning of institutional health
facility.
The above House File is hereby approved on this date.
S
Reyn
Governor of
cc: Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House
STATE CAPITOL DES MOINES, IOWA 50319 515.281.5211 FAX 515.725.3527 WWW.GOVERNOR.IOWA.GOV
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House File 887
AN ACT
REMOVING BIRTH CENTERS FROM THE MEANING OF INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH
FACILITY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section 10A.711, subsection 3, Code 2025, is
amended by striking
Sec. 2. Section
2025, is amended by
Sec. 3. Section
2025, is amended by
Sec. 4. Section
2025, is amended to
the subsection.
10A.711, subsection 13, paragraph f, Code
striking
135.119,
striking
135.131,
the paragraph.
subsection 1, paragraph a, Code
the paragraph.
subsection 1, paragraph a, Code
read as follows:
a. " Birth center" means birth ccnter ac dcfined — ice Beetien
10A.711 a facility or institution, which is not an ambulatory
surgical center or a hospital or in a hospital, in which
births are planned to occur following a normal, uncomplicated,
low- risk pregnancy.
Sec. 5. Section 135P.1, subsection 3, Code 2025, is amended
to read as follows:
3. Health facility - means an institutional health facility
as defined in section 10A.711, a birth center as defined in
section 135.131, a hospice licensed under chapter 135J, a
home health agency as defined in section 144D.1, an assisted
living program certified under chapter 231C, a clinic, a
community health center, or the university of Iowa hospitals
and clinics, and includes any corporation, professional
House File 887, p. 2
corporation, partnership, limited liability company, limited
liability partnership, or other entity comprised of such health
facilities.
PAT GRASSLE
Speaker of the House
n• f (•/. Tit iCLi c•t
AMY SINO'AIR
President of the Senate
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 887, Ninety-first General Assembly.
Approved I \, r% W1 I , 2025
ME{éHAN NELSON
Okfi f Clef the House
KIM EYNOLDS
Governor