Iowa Code § 263.21
Transfer of patients from state institutions
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Current — January 1, 2026
As of January 1, 2012
The director of the department of human services, in respect to institutions under the director’s control, the administrator of any of the divisions of the department, in respect to the institutions under the administrator’s control, the director of the department of corrections, in respect to the institutions under the department’s control, and the state board of regents, in respect to the Iowa braille and sight saving school and the Iowa school for the deaf, may send any inmate, student, or patient of an institution, or any person committed or applying for admission to an institution, to the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics for treatment and care. The department of human services, the department of corrections, and the state board of regents shall respectively pay the traveling expenses of such patient, and when necessary the traveling expenses of an attendant for the patient, out of funds appropriated for the use of the institution from which the patient is sent.
The director of health and human services, in respect to institutions under the director’s control, and the director of the department of corrections, in respect to the institutions under the department’s control, may send any inmate, student, or patient of an institution, or any person committed or applying for admission to an institution, to the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics for treatment and care. The department of health and human services and the department of corrections shall respectively pay the traveling expenses of such patient, and when necessary the traveling expenses of an attendant for the patient, out of funds appropriated for the use of the institution from which the patient is sent.
Referred to in
Transfer of students from the Iowa school for the deaf, see §256.105
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