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1 1 Section 1. Section 331.439, subsection 3, Code Supplement
1 2 1995, is amended to read as follows:
1 3 3. a. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, and
1 4 succeeding fiscal years, the county's mental health, mental
1 5 retardation, and developmental disabilities service
1 6 expenditures for a fiscal year are limited to a fixed budget
1 7 amount. The fixed budget amount shall be the amount
1 8 identified in the county's management plan and budget for the
1 9 fiscal year. The county shall be allowed an inflation factor
1 10 adjustment for services paid from the county's services fund
1 11 under section 331.424A which is in accordance with the
1 12 county's management plan and budget, implemented pursuant to
1 13 this section.
1 14 b. Based upon information contained in county management
1 15 plans and budgets, the state-county management committee shall
1 16 recommend an inflation factor adjustment to the council on
1 17 human services by November 15 for the succeeding fiscal year.
1 18 The inflation factor adjustment shall address costs associated
1 19 with new consumers of service, service cost inflation, and
1 20 investments for economy and efficiency. The council on human
1 21 services shall recommend to the governor the amount of the
1 22 inflation factor adjustment for the succeeding fiscal year.
1 23 The governor shall consider the council's recommendation in
1 24 developing the governor's recommendation for an inflation
1 25 factor adjustment for inclusion in the governor's proposed
1 26 budget for the succeeding fiscal year submitted in accordance
1 27 with chapter 8.
1 28 c. If the general assembly has not revised the amount of
1 29 the inflation factor adjustment for a fiscal year on the date
1 30 county budgets must be approved and levies must be certified
1 31 for that fiscal year, the budgets and levies shall utilize the
1 32 inflation factor adjustment for that fiscal year recommended
1 33 by the governor in the governor's proposed budget.
1 34 Sec. 2. STATE-COUNTY MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. The state-
1 35 county management committee created in section 331.438 shall
2 1 review the inflation factor adjustment mechanism created in
2 2 this Act with attention to the three cost factors incorporated
2 3 in the mechanism: new consumers of service, service cost
2 4 inflation, and investments for economy and efficiency. The
2 5 committee shall make recommendations regarding equity,
2 6 administrative simplicity, and distribution issues associated
2 7 with implementing the inflation factor adjustment to address,
2 8 in an effective manner, the cost factors comprising the
2 9 mechanism. The committee's review and recommendations shall
2 10 be included in the annual report to be submitted by January 1,
2 11 1997, to the governor, general assembly, and department of
2 12 human services pursuant to section 331.438.
2 13 Sec. 3. APPLICABILITY. The amendment in this Act to
2 14 section 331.439, subsection 3, relating to an inflation factor
2 15 adjustment, first applies to the budget process for the fiscal
2 16 year beginning July 1, 1997.
2 17 EXPLANATION
2 18 This bill relates to state and county funding for mental
2 19 health and developmental disability services.
2 20 Section 331.439, subsection 3, is amended to provide a
2 21 methodology for establishing an inflation factor adjustment
2 22 for expenditures for the costs of county mental health and
2 23 developmental disability services. The state-county
2 24 management committee is to make an initial recommendation to
2 25 the council on human services which in turn is to make a
2 26 recommendation to the governor. The governor is to consider
2 27 the council's recommendation in developing the governor's
2 28 recommendation for inclusion in the governor's proposed budget
2 29 for the succeeding fiscal year unless revised by action of the
2 30 general assembly, the governor's budget recommendation for the
2 31 inflation factor adjustment is to be used in county budgets
2 32 and levies for the succeeding fiscal year. The bill includes
2 33 an applicability provision specifying the inflation factor
2 34 adjustment first applies to the budget process for the fiscal
2 35 year beginning July 1, 1997.
3 1 The bill directs the state-county management committee to
3 2 review the inflation factor adjustment mechanism established
3 3 in the bill and to make recommendations. The recommendations
3 4 are to be incorporated in the committee's annual report which
3 5 is to be submitted by January 1, 1997.
3 6 LSB 3103XS 76
3 7 jp/sc/14
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