Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 228.3 (2026)

Voluntary disclosures

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1. An individual eighteen years of age or older or an individual’s legal representative may consent to the disclosure of mental health information relating to the individual by a mental health professional, data collector, or employee or agent of a mental health professional, of a data collector, or of or for a mental health facility, by signing a voluntary written authorization. The authorization shall: a. Specify the nature of the mental health information to be disclosed, the persons or type of persons authorized to disclose the information, and the purposes for which the information may be used both at the time of the disclosure and in the future. b. Advise the individual of the individual’s right to inspect the disclosed mental health information at any time. c. State that the authorization is subject to revocation and state the conditions of revocation. d. Specify the length of time for which the authorization is valid. e. Contain the date on which the authorization was signed. 2. A copy of the authorization shall: a. Be provided to the individual or to the legal representative of the individual authorizing the disclosure. b. Be included in the individual’s record of mental health information. 86 Acts, ch 1082, §3; 88 Acts, ch 1226, §6, 7, 9 Referred to in §228.2, 228.9

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 9 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1972–2023 · leading case: Doe v. Cent. Iowa Health Sys., 766 N.W.2d 787 (Iowa 2009).

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Doe v. Cent. Iowa Health Sys., 766 N.W.2d 787 (Iowa 2009). · cites it 6× “Except as specifically authorized in section 228.3, 228.5, 228.6, 228.7, or 228.”

Natalie Slaughter v. Des Moines Univ. Coll. of Osteopathic Med., 925 N.W.2d 793 (Iowa 2019). · cites it 2× “§ 228.3(1). Slaughter, 15 however, did not give Dr.”

Harder v. Anderson, Arnold, Dickey, Jensen, Gullickson & Sanger, L.L.P., 764 N.W.2d 534 (Iowa 2009). · cites it 5× “§ 228.3. Susan and Pini concede that Pini is a mental health professional subject to section 228.”

Stamus v. Leonhardt, 414 F. Supp. 439 (S.D. Iowa 1976). “2 , § 228.3. Involuntary hospitalization of an individual was instituted by the filing of a sworn information which had to allege that the person (hereinafter referred to as the subject) was “believed to be mentally ill, and a *443 fit subject for custody and treatment” in a…”

Monson v. Hospitalization Com'n for Polk Cnty., Iowa, 338 F. Supp. 1315 (S.D. Iowa 1972). “§ 228.3. In the “temporary absence” or inability of two members to act, the member present may call to his aid, on a temporary basis, persons “possessing the qualifications of the absent members.”

Susan Harder Vs. Anderson, Arnold, Dickey, Jensen, Gullickson & Sanger, L.l.p. & Jane Pini (Iowa 2009). · cites it 5× “§ 228.3. Susan and Pini concede that Pini is a mental health professional subject to section 228.”

John Doe Vs. Cent. Iowa Health Sys. D/b/a Iowa Health Des Moines D/b/a Iowa Methodist Med. Ctr. & D/b/a Iowa Lutheran Hosp. (Iowa 2009). · cites it 4× “Upon disclosure of mental health information pursuant to section 228.3, 228.5, 228.6, 228.7, or 228.”

State of Iowa v. Richard Wayne Leedom (Iowa 2020). · cites it 2× “See Iowa Code § 228.3 (1) (allowing an “individual eighteen years of age or older [to] consent to the disclosure of mental health information” (emphasis added)); cf.”

C.S., on behalf of H.S., a child v. J.C. (Iowa Ct. App. 2023). · cites it 2× “under Iowa 5 Code section 228.3(1), that section requires a signed written voluntary authorization.”

— Iowa Code § 228.3(1) — 4 cases

Natalie Slaughter v. Des Moines Univ. Coll. of Osteopathic Med., 925 N.W.2d 793 (Iowa 2019). “§ 228.3(1). Slaughter, 15 however, did not give Dr.”

Harder v. Anderson, Arnold, Dickey, Jensen, Gullickson & Sanger, L.L.P., 764 N.W.2d 534 (Iowa 2009). “§ 228.3. Susan and Pini concede that Pini is a mental health professional subject to section 228.”

C.S., on behalf of H.S., a child v. J.C. (Iowa Ct. App. 2023). “under Iowa 5 Code section 228.3(1), that section requires a signed written voluntary authorization.”

Susan Harder Vs. Anderson, Arnold, Dickey, Jensen, Gullickson & Sanger, L.l.p. & Jane Pini (Iowa 2009). “§ 228.3. Susan and Pini concede that Pini is a mental health professional subject to section 228.”

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