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House Journal: Page 579: Monday, February 27, 1995

21   fiscal year beginning July 1, 1995.  The adjustment
22   and maximum amount which may be levied by the county
23   shall be determined for the county by the department
24   of management.
25     Sec. 46.  Section 331.426, subsection 1, Code 1995,
26   is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
27     NEW PARAGRAPH.  h.  An unusual need for a service
28   or cost paid from levies under section 331.424,
29   subsection 1, which would cause the total expenditures
30   of services and costs paid from those levies to exceed
31   the maximum levies authorized under section 331.424,
32   subsection 1A.
33     Sec. 47.  Section 331.438, subsection 1, paragraph
34   b, Code 1995, is amended to read as follows:
35     b.  "State payment" means the payment made by the
36   state under section 331.438A to a county determined to
37   be eligible for the payment in accordance with section
38   331.439.  Except as modified based upon the actual
39   amount of the appropriation for purposes of state
40   payment under section 331.439, the amount of the state
41   payment for a fiscal year shall be calculated as fifty
42   percent of the amount by which the county's qualified
43   expenditures during the immediately preceding fiscal
44   year were in excess of the amount of the county's base
45   year expenditures.
46     Sec. 48.  Section 331.438, Code 1995, is amended by
47   adding the following new subsection:
48     NEW SUBSECTION.  1A.  The state of Iowa shall
49   provide funding for the county expenditures for mental
50   health and mental retardation assistance so that over
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 1   the five-year period beginning July 1, 1995, and
 2   ending June 30, 2000, the relative shares of the state
 3   and counties for these expenditures shall become
 4   either equal or greater for the state.
 5     Sec. 49.  NEW SECTION.  331.438A  STATE AND COUNTY
 6   EXPENDITURES FOR MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL RETARDATION,
 7   AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ASSISTANCE -- FUND
 8   CREATED.
 9     1.  The mental health, mental retardation, and
10   developmental disabilities property tax relief fund is
11   created in the office of the treasurer of state under
12   the authority of the department of revenue and
13   finance.  The relief fund shall consist of moneys
14   appropriated to the fund.
15     2.  The department of management shall determine
16   each county's proportion of all counties' base year
17   expenditures, as defined in section 331.438.  In each
18   fiscal year, a county shall receive for property tax
19   relief the proportion of the moneys appropriated to
20   the relief fund for that fiscal year equivalent to the
21   county's proportion of all counties' base year

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