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Read. Follow. Verify.Senate File 2367 sets continuing education rules on nutrition for physicians, updates certificate of need laws, mandates SNAP participation, and bans specific food dyes in school meals
Last action · April 8, 2026: Withdrawn. S.J. 759 .
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What This Bill Proposed
Senate File 2367 requires specific medical licensees to complete continuing education in nutrition and metabolic health, alters review thresholds and requirements for health facilities, requires the state to maintain continuous Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation, and prohibits Iowa school districts, charter schools, and participating nonpublic schools from serving meals containing certain artificial dyes and chemical additives starting July 1, 2027.
Medical professionals face new license renewal requirements, health facilities encounter altered review thresholds and public comment rules for facility changes, and school districts must remove specified food dyes and additives from student meals and campus food sales during the school day.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Medical Licensees in Specified Specialties
Physicians and physician assistants practicing in listed specialties must complete a minimum of one hour of continuing education on nutrition and metabolic health every four years as a condition of license renewal.
School Districts and Charter Schools
School districts, charter schools, innovation zone schools, and participating nonpublic schools must comply with new prohibitions on specific ingredients in meals and campus food sales during the school day.
Institutional Health Facilities
Health facilities face modified certificate of need review thresholds, replacement equipment valuation rules, and updated public comment procedures.
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This bill did not become law - Withdrawn.
Procedural history
18 actions- Apr 8, 2026SenateWithdrawn. S.J. 759 .
- Apr 8, 2026SenateHF 2676 substituted. S.J. 757 .
- Apr 8, 2026SenateFloorAmendment S-5062 adopted. S.J. 757 .
- Mar 19, 2026SenatePlaced on calendar under unfinished business. S.J. 599 .
- Mar 4, 2026SenateAmendment S-5062 filed. S.J. 478 .
- Mar 4, 2026SenateAttached to HF 2676 . S.J. 462 .
Show 12 earlier actions
- Mar 3, 2026SenateCommittee report, recommending passage. S.J. 458 .
- Feb 26, 2026Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee recommends passage.
- Feb 24, 2026Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee Meeting: 02/26/2026 8:30AM Room 315.
- Feb 24, 2026SenateSubcommittee: Webster, Blake, and Salmon. S.J. 393 .
- Feb 24, 2026SenateCommitteeReferred to State Government. S.J. 376 .
- Feb 18, 2026SenateCommittee report, approving bill. S.J. 315 .
- Feb 18, 2026SenateIntroducedIntroduced, placed on calendar. S.J. 311 .
- Feb 17, 2026Iowa LegislatureCommittee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2367 .
- Feb 16, 2026Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee recommends passage.
- Feb 12, 2026Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee Meeting: 02/16/2026 12:00PM Room 315.
- Feb 10, 2026Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee: Warme, Costello, and Trone Garriott.
- Feb 10, 2026Iowa LegislatureIntroducedIntroduced, referred to Health and Human Services.
Version history
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Comprehensive Health and Nutrition Omnibus
The bill combines distinct policy areas—medical professional continuing education, healthcare facility certificate of need rules, SNAP administration, and school food ingredient bans—into a single legislative vehicle.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy60Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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