Iowa SSB3135 transfers public health responsibilities from local boards of health to county boards of health and district boards of health.

Iowa SSB3135 eliminates local boards of health and local health departments. Instead, each county must either create its own county board or join with other counties to form a district overseen by a district board. Cities must perform all public health functions through a county board or district board. The bill details the composition of board members, the process for making annual budgets, how counties will create funding plans, how a city's public health functions will be divided if the city is within the jurisdiction of multiple boards of health, and how a board of health must get.

Iowa SSB3135 transfers public health responsibilities from local boards of health to county boards of health and district boards of health.

Iowa SSB3135 eliminates local boards of health and local health departments. Instead, each county must either create its own county board or join with other counties to form a district overseen by a district board. Cities must perform all public health functions through a county board or district board. The bill details the composition of board members, the process for making annual budgets, how counties will create funding plans, how a city's public health functions will be divided if the city is within the jurisdiction of multiple boards of health, and how a board of health must get.