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The Iowa Department of Public Health looks forward to sharing information with you during the 2020 legislative session.
In this edition, you'll find resources on the opening days of session, as well as some quick tips and tools to help you in tracking what's happening over the next several months.
Here's to a productive 2020 legislative session that continues moving our state in a healthy direction!
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Opening Day Remarks
Below you can find links to House and Senate leadership opening day remarks that were delivered on Jan. 13, 2020.
Senate President Charles Schneider
Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver
Senate Minority Leader Janet Petersen
House Speaker Pat Grassley
House Majority Leader Matt Windschitl
House Speaker Pro Tem John Wills
House Minority Leader Todd Pritchard
Pre-Session Update to the State Board of Health
Please find a pre-session legislative update that IDPH presented to the State Board of Health on Jan. 8, 2020, here.
This update goes over basic department information and interesting facts about the work done by IDPH and its partners. It also provides a brief overview of some of the major pieces of legislation in 2019 that impacted the department, and includes IDPH's policy proposal for this year. That proposal - to strengthen the Smokefree Air Act - would expand the definition of smoking to include vapor products. The bill draft is available here.
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