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Advocacy Efforts

Legislative Priorities 

  • 1. Promote and defend the scope of practice of athletic trainers in the state to provide quality healthcare.

    • Ensure the education, training, and practice of athletic trainers is understood by the public.

    • Ensure AT licensure and the Board of Athletic Training remain in place to protect all Iowans.  

  • 2. Promote the provision of quality healthcare to Iowans, particularly in rural areas. 

    • Monitor and expand incentives for athletic trainers to practice healthcare in rural areas.  

    • Collaborate with other healthcare professions on initiatives to recruit and retain quality healthcare providers in the state. 

  • 3. Promote activities and practices that improve safety in sport participation across Iowa. 

    • Monitor, promote, and develop legislation regarding emergency action plans, AEDs, concussion evaluation, and management, and related emergency conditions which would support safe sport participation. 

    • Collaborate with stakeholder organizations who regulate participation and safety in physical and recreational activity.

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Bill Status and Updates: 2026 

HSB 502​

A bill for an act relating to health insurers' credentialing process.

  • Status: 1/15/26 Subcommittee recommends passage 

  • Stance: Support  

SF 319 (SSB 1029): â€‹

A bill for an act relating to certain cost controls for health care services.

  • Status: 2/3/26 Tabled until future meeting

  • Stance: No position 

SF 2092: â€‹

A bill for an act establishing the school health-related emergency response plan competitive grant program within the department of education, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions.

  • Status: Subcommittee recommends passage 2/10/26

  • Stance: Support

SSB 3077: â€‹

A bill for an act relating to the practice of licensed professions and the duties of the professional licensing boards, including applications, renewals, and fees, and including applicability provisions.

  • Status: Subcommittee Meeting: 2/11/26 @ 10:00am

  • Stance: Undecided

HSB 654:​

A bill for an act prohibiting specified provisions in agreements between employers and health care providers relating to location of practice.

  • Status: Subcommittee recommends passage 2/10/26

  • Stance: Undecided

HF 2288:​

A bill for an act relating to vaccination exemptions for certain students in clinical rotations and the qualification of postsecondary schools as eligible institutions for Iowa tuition grants.

  • Status: Introduced, referred to Higher Education

  • Stance: Undecided

HSB 719​:

A bill for an act establishing the school health-related emergency response plan competitive grant program within the department of education, amking appropriations, and including applicability provisions.

  • Status:

  • Subcommittee: Larson, Kniff McCulla, & Madison

  • Subcommittee Meeting: 2/17/26 @ 8:15am

  • Subcommittee reassigned: Larson, Bradley, & Madison

  • Stance: Support 

HF 2246 (HSB 546) :​

A bill for an act relating to continuing education requirements for licensed professions.

  • Status: 1/30/26 Introduced, put on calendar

  • Stance: Undecided

SF 2139 (SSB3046): â€‹

A bill for the act enacting the athletic trainers compact.

  • Status: Committee report approving bill, renumbered SF 2139. Introduced and put on calendar 1/28/26

  • Stance: Support 

HSB 672:​

A bill for an act enacting the athletic trainer compact.

  • Status: Subcommittee recommends passage 2/11/26 

  • Stance: Support

SF 2095: â€‹

A bill for an act relating to vaccination exemptions for certain students in clinical rotations and the qualification of postsecondary schools as eligible institutions for Iowa tuition grants.

  • Status: Subcommittee recommends passage 2/4/26

  • Stance: Undecided

HSB 628:​

A bill for an act relating to the practice of licensed professions and the duties of the professional licensing boards, including applications, renewals, and fees, and including applicability provisions.

  • Status: Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage 2/10/26

  • Stance: Undecided

HF 2037(HF 2091):​

A bill for an act authorizing the board of educational examiners to issue provisional coaching authorizations.

  • Status: Subcommittee: Boden, Gosa, and Wheeler. Subcommittee Meeting: 2/16/26 @ 1:00pm

  • Stance: Support 

HSB 679:​

A bill for an act relating to non-contact periods for students, coaches, directors, and teachers in extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests and competitions.

  • Status: Subcommittee Meeting: 2/12/26 @ 8:30am (cancelled)

  • Stance: Monitoring 

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