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House Journal: Page 576: Monday, February 27, 1995

18   is amended to read as follows:
19     1.  For general county services, an amount
20   sufficient to pay the charges for the following:
21     a.  To the extent that the county is obligated by
22   statute to pay the charges for:
23     (1)  Care and treatment of patients by a state
24   mental health institute.
25     (2)  Care and treatment of patients by either of
26   the state hospital-schools or by any other facility
27   established under chapter 222 and diagnostic
28   evaluation under section 222.31.
29     (3)  Care and treatment of patients under chapter
30   225.
31     (4) (1)  Care and treatment of persons at the
32   alcoholic treatment center at Oakdale.  However, the
33   county may require that an admission to the center
34   shall be reported to the board by the center within
35   five days as a condition of the payment of county
36   funds for that admission.
37     (5) (2)  Care of children admitted or committed to
38   the Iowa juvenile home at Toledo.
39     (6) (3)  Clothing, transportation, medical, or
40   other services provided persons attending the Iowa
41   braille and sight saving school, the Iowa school for
42   the deaf, or the state hospital-school for severely
43   handicapped children at Iowa City, for which the
44   county becomes obligated to pay pursuant to sections
45   263.12, 269.2, and 270.4 through 270.7.
46     b.  To the extent that the board deems it advisable
47   to pay, the charges for professional evaluation,
48   treatment, training, habilitation, and care of persons
49   who are mentally retarded, autistic persons, or
50   persons who are afflicted by any other developmental
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 1   disability, at a suitable public or private facility
 2   providing inpatient or outpatient care in the county.
 3   As used in this paragraph:
 4     (1)  "Developmental disability" has the meaning
 5   assigned that term by 42 U.S.C. sec. 6001(7) (1976),
 6   Supp. II, 1978, and Supp. III, 1979.
 7     (2)  "Autistic persons" means persons, regardless
 8   of age, with severe communication and behavior
 9   disorders that became manifest during the early stages
10   of childhood development and that are characterized by
11   a severely disabling inability to understand,
12   communicate, learn, and participate in social
13   relationships.  "Autistic persons" includes but is not
14   limited to those persons afflicted by infantile
15   autism, profound aphasia, and childhood psychosis.
16     c.  Care and treatment of persons placed in the
17   county hospital, county care facility, a health care
18   facility as defined in section 135C.1, subsection 6,

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Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 1)

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