2019 Brain Injury Alliance Hill Day

Hill Day Rescheduled to March 27

March 27, 2019 at 9:30AM-2:00PM

Legislative Dining Room (Ground Floor)

East 9th and Grand, Des Moines, Iowa

State Capitol, Des Moines, IA

BIAIA's 2019 Legislative Requests

1) Eliminate the waiting list for the Medicaid Home and Community Based Waiver Services for Brain Injury and other conditions.

2) Remove the obsolete cap on waiver expenditures for brain injury home and community-based services under the Medicaid waiver in Iowa Code.

3) Protect Iowa youth age 17 and under by compelling the use of a helmet when riding mopeds and motorcycles. (“Line’s Law”)

4) Increase funding by $250,000 to the Brain Injury Services Program (BISP) at the Iowa Dept. of Public Health (IDPH)

5) Add Brain Injury services to the list of Core Services within Iowa’s Mental Health and Disability Service regions AND the funding to support them.

6) Increase funding to the Iowa Dept. of Education to support an internet-based training program for educators to respond to youth concussion (mild TBI) and the 2018 mandate to deploy “Return to Learn” techniques.