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1 1 Section 1. PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES.
1 2 1. The department of human services, in consultation with
1 3 the personal assistance and family support services council
1 4 created in section 225C.48, shall submit a request to the
1 5 United States department of health and human services to amend
1 6 the mental retardation and the ill and handicapped home and
1 7 community-based services waivers to include the provision of
1 8 consumer-directed attendant care as a fundable service under
1 9 the medical assistance home and community-based services
1 10 waiver. If approved, the consumer-directed attendant care
1 11 services portion of the waiver as provided in 1994 Iowa Acts,
1 12 chapter 1041, section 5, shall be implemented immediately
1 13 following approval.
1 14 2. The department of human services, in consultation with
1 15 the personal assistance and family support services council
1 16 created in section 225C.48, shall submit a waiver request to
1 17 the United States department of health and human services for
1 18 approval of funding of services provided to persons with
1 19 physical disabilities through the medical assistance home and
1 20 community-based services waiver, including consumer-directed
1 21 attendant care services. If approved, the services, as
1 22 provided in 1994 Iowa Acts, chapter 1041, section 5, shall be
1 23 implemented immmediately following approval. The department
1 24 shall use existing state funds to draw down federal funds for
1 25 the consumer-directed attendant services. The department
1 26 shall not propose or implement the medical assistance home and
1 27 community-based waiver for services for persons with physical
1 28 disabilities in a manner which would require county funding to
1 29 match federal funding. The nonfederal funding match shall be
1 30 provided only through expenditure of state funds from existing
1 31 human services programs, including but not limited to the in-
1 32 home-health-related program and other programs which are
1 33 funded solely through expenditure of state funds.
1 34 Sec.2. PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES &endash; APPROPRIATION.
1 35 There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to
2 1 the department of human services for the fiscal year beginning
2 2 July 1, 1995, and ending June 30, 1996, the following amount,
2 3 or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purpose
2 4 designated:
2 5 For the personal assistance services program created in
2 6 section 225C.46:
2 7 .................................................. $ 2,889,723
2 8 Sec.3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of
2 9 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
2 10 EXPLANATION
2 11 This bill directs the department of human services to
2 12 submit a request to the United States department of health and
2 13 human services to amend the medical assistance home and
2 14 community-based waivers for persons with mental retardation
2 15 and for the ill and handicapped, to include consumer-directed
2 16 attendant care as a fundable service for both of these
2 17 populations. The services are to be implemented immediately
2 18 following approval of the waiver.
2 19 The bill also directs the department of human services to
2 20 submit a request to the United States department of health and
2 21 human services to amend the medical assistance home and
2 22 community-based services waiver to include services to persons
2 23 with physical disabilities to include the provision of
2 24 consumer-directed attendant care services. The waiver is to
2 25 be implemented immediately following approval and only if
2 26 existing state funding, not county funding, is used to provide
2 27 a match for federal funding.
2 28 The bill also makes an appropriation from the general fund
2 29 of the state of the department of human services for personal
2 30 assistance services program in the amount of $2,889,723.
2 31 The bill takes effect upon enactment.
2 32 LSB 2420HH 76
2 33 pf/cf/24
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