SF 333 (LSB 2036SV (2) 86)

SENATE FILE 333

BY  COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

(SUCCESSOR TO SF 140)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the acceptance of eligible patients into state mental health institutes and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  2013 Iowa Acts, chapter 138, section 153, as amended by 2014 Iowa Acts, chapter 1140, section 29, is amended to read as follows:
   SEC. 153.  MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTES.
   1.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of human services for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, and ending June 30, 2015, the following amounts, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
   1.  a.  For the state mental health institute at Cherokee for salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions:

.................................................. $  6,031,934
............................................... FTEs     169.20

   2.  b.  For the state mental health institute at Clarinda for salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions:

.................................................. $  6,787,309
............................................... FTEs      86.10

   3.  c.  For the state mental health institute at Independence for salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions:

.................................................. $ 10,484,386
............................................... FTEs     233.00

   4.  d.  For the state mental health institute at Mount Pleasant for salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions:

.................................................. $  1,417,796
............................................... FTEs      97.92

   2.  The department shall accept all eligible patients into the state mental health institutes through June 30, 2015.
    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill directs the department of human services to accept all eligible patients to the state mental health institutes through June 30, 2015 (FY 2014-2015). Iowa has four mental health institutes located in Cherokee, Clarinda, Independence, and Mount Pleasant. All state mental health institutes provide short-term psychiatric care for severe symptoms of mental illness. Mount Pleasant also provides substance use disorder treatment.
   The bill is effective upon enactment.