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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 232.143, Code Supplement 1995, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    232.143  REGIONAL GROUP FOSTER CARE TARGET BUDGET TARGETS.
  1  4    1.  A statewide expenditure target for the average number
  1  5 of for children in group foster care placements on any day of
  1  6 in a fiscal year, which placements are a charge upon or are
  1  7 paid for by the state, shall be established annually in an
  1  8 appropriation bill by the general assembly.  The department
  1  9 and the judicial department shall jointly develop a formula
  1 10 for allocating a portion of the statewide expenditure target
  1 11 established by the general assembly to each of the
  1 12 department's regions.  The formula shall be based upon the
  1 13 region's proportion of the state population of children and of
  1 14 the statewide number of expenditures for children placed in
  1 15 group foster care in the previous five completed fiscal years.
  1 16 The number expenditure amount determined in accordance with
  1 17 the formula shall be the group foster care placement budget
  1 18 target for that region.  A region may exceed its budget target
  1 19 for group foster care by not more than five percent in a
  1 20 fiscal year, provided the overall funding allocated by the
  1 21 department for all child welfare services in the region is not
  1 22 exceeded.
  1 23    2.  For each of the department's regions, representatives
  1 24 appointed by the department and the juvenile court shall
  1 25 establish a plan for containing the number of expenditures for
  1 26 children placed in group foster care ordered by the court
  1 27 within the budget target allocated to that region pursuant to
  1 28 subsection 1.  The plan shall include monthly targets and
  1 29 strategies for developing alternatives to group foster care
  1 30 placements in order to contain expenditures for child welfare
  1 31 services provided to children within the amount appropriated
  1 32 by the general assembly for that purpose.  Each regional plan
  1 33 shall be established in advance of the fiscal year to which
  1 34 the regional plan applies.  To the extent possible, the
  1 35 department and the juvenile court shall coordinate the
  2  1 planning required under this subsection with planning for
  2  2 services paid under section 232.141, subsection 4.  The
  2  3 department's regional administrator shall communicate
  2  4 regularly, as specified in the regional plan, with the
  2  5 juvenile courts within that region concerning the current
  2  6 status of the regional plan's implementation.
  2  7    3.  State payment for group foster care placements shall be
  2  8 limited to those placements which are in accordance with the
  2  9 regional plans developed pursuant to subsection 2.  If a
  2 10 proposed group foster care placement in a region would meet
  2 11 the region's plan requirements except that the placement would
  2 12 cause a monthly or overall budget target to be exceeded and
  2 13 the child is eligible for an alternative service which is
  2 14 costlier and more restrictive than the proposed placement, the
  2 15 director of human services, after consultation with
  2 16 appropriate juvenile court officials, may allow an exception
  2 17 to policy and authorize the placement.  At the close of the
  2 18 fiscal year, moneys for specific placements authorized by the
  2 19 director under this subsection shall be transferred from the
  2 20 state appropriation for the alternative placement to the
  2 21 appropriation for group foster care placements, as necessary
  2 22 to prevent a deficit in the appropriation for group foster
  2 23 care.  
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