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PAG LIN
1 1 Amend House File 534 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 36, by inserting after line 1 the
1 3 following:
1 4 "Sec. 100. PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES.
1 5 1. The department of human services, in
1 6 consultation with the personal assistance and family
1 7 support services council created in section 225C.48,
1 8 shall submit a request to the United States department
1 9 of health and human services to amend the mental
1 10 retardation and the ill and handicapped home and
1 11 community-based services waivers to include the
1 12 provision of consumer-directed attendant care as a
1 13 fundable service under the medical assistance home and
1 14 community-based services waiver. If approved, the
1 15 consumer-directed attendant care services portion of
1 16 the waiver as provided in 1994 Iowa Acts, chapter
1 17 1041, section 5, shall be implemented immediately
1 18 following approval.
1 19 2. The department of human services, in
1 20 consultation with the personal assistance and family
1 21 support services council created in section 225C.48,
1 22 shall submit a waiver request to the United States
1 23 department of health and human services for approval
1 24 of funding of services provided to persons with
1 25 physical disabilities through the medical assistance
1 26 home and community-based services waiver, including
1 27 consumer-directed attendant care services. If
1 28 approved, the services, as provided in 1994 Iowa Acts,
1 29 chapter 1041, section 5, shall be implemented
1 30 immediately following approval. The department shall
1 31 use existing state funds to draw down federal funds
1 32 for the consumer-directed attendant services. The
1 33 department shall not propose or implement the medical
1 34 assistance home and community-based waiver for
1 35 services for persons with physical disabilities in a
1 36 manner which would require county funding to match
1 37 federal funding. The nonfederal funding match shall
1 38 be provided only through expenditure of state funds
1 39 from existing human services programs, including but
1 40 not limited to the in-home-health-related program and
1 41 other programs which are funded solely through
1 42 expenditure of state funds.
1 43 Sec. 200. PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES &endash;
1 44 APPROPRIATION. There is appropriated from the general
1 45 fund of the state to the department of human services
1 46 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1995, and ending
1 47 June 30, 1996, the following amount, or so much
1 48 thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purpose
1 49 designated:
1 50 For the personal assistance services program
2 1 created in section 225C.46:
2 2 .................................................. $ 2,889,723"
2 3 #2. By striking page 36, line 27, through page 37,
2 4 line 14.
2 5 #3. Page 44, line 29, by inserting after the
2 6 figure "1194," the following: "and sections 100 and
2 7 200 of this Act relating to personal assistance
2 8 services,".
2 9 #4. By renumbering as necessary.
2 10
2 11
2 12
2 13 RUNNING of Linn
2 14 HF 534.502 76
2 15 pf/jw
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