HF 2399 (LSB 5307HV (3) 87)

HOUSE FILE 2399

BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES

(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 638)

(As Amended and Passed by the House 2018-03-07)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the state training school at Eldora.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 233A.1, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   233A.1  State training school —— Eldora and Toledo.
   1.  Effective January 1, 1992, a diagnosis and evaluation center and other units are established at Eldora the state training school to provide to court-committed male juvenile delinquents a program which focuses upon appropriate developmental skills, treatment, placements, and rehabilitation on education, observation, treatment, and rehabilitation designed to help such juveniles recognize accountability for delinquent behavior by confronting and eliminating delinquent norms, criminal thinking, and antisocial behavior.  The state training school shall treat and assist such juveniles in the development of skills necessary to function effectively and positively in the community in a manner consistent with public safety by doing all of the following:
   a.  Providing humane, disciplined confinement to male juvenile delinquents who present a danger to the community.
   b.  Holding male juvenile delinquents accountable for their delinquent behavior.
   c.  Developing efficient and effective juvenile correctional programs within the framework of professional correctional standards and available resources that address the safety of students and staff and includes a regular independent review of the program.
   2.  The diagnosis and evaluation center which is used to identify appropriate treatment and placement alternatives for juveniles and any other units Units for court-committed male juvenile delinquents which are located at Eldora and the unit for juvenile delinquents at Toledo shall together be known as the “state training school”. For the purposes of this chapter “director” means the director of human services and “superintendent” means the administrator in charge of the diagnosis and evaluation center for juvenile delinquents and other units at Eldora and the unit for juvenile delinquents at Toledo state training school.
   3.  The number of children present at any one time at the state training school at Eldora shall not exceed the population guidelines established under 
1990 Iowa Acts, ch. 1239, §21
, as adjusted for subsequent changes in the capacity at the training school.
    Sec. 2.  Section 233A.14, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   233A.14  Transfers to other institutions.
   The administrator may transfer to the schools state training school minor wards of the state from any institution under the administrator’s charge but no person shall be so transferred who is mentally ill or has an intellectual disability. Any child in the schools state training school who is mentally ill or has an intellectual disability may be transferred by the administrator to the proper state institution.
    Sec. 3.  Section 915.29, subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   The department of human services shall notify a registered victim regarding a juvenile adjudicated delinquent for a violent crime, committed to the custody of the department of human services, and placed at the state training school at Eldora or Toledo, of the following: