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House Journal: Page 641: Tuesday, February 28, 1995

50   identifying optimum staffing ratios for intermediate
Page  21
 1   care facilities for the mentally retarded (ICFMR).
 2   The administrative rules shall be implemented on or
 3   before January 1, 1996.
 4     Sec. 123.  COUNTY ADJUSTMENT FACTOR PAYMENT --
 5   FISCAL YEAR 1995-1996.
 6     1.  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1995, the
 7   adjustment factor payment from the mental health,
 8   mental retardation, and developmental disabilities
 9   property tax relief fund specified in section 331.438A
10   shall be paid as provided in this section.  An
11   eligible county may apply to the department of human
12   services for an adjustment factor payment to reimburse
13   costs paid by the county in that fiscal year for
14   services to persons with mental illness, mental
15   retardation, or developmental disabilities in
16   accordance with the county's management plan approved
17   pursuant to section 331.439.  Eligible costs shall be
18   limited to eligible consumers of services who were not
19   served in the previous fiscal year, unusual cost
20   increases, service cost inflation, and investments for
21   quality and efficiency improvements.  Reimbursement
22   shall not be provided from the fund for applications
23   received after August 10, 1995.
24     2.  Payment from the fund shall be limited to the
25   amount designated for this purpose and if applications
26   received exceed the available funding, payments shall
27   be prorated.  The department of human services shall
28   notify the director of revenue and finance of the
29   amounts due a county under this section.  The director
30   shall draw warrants on the relief fund payable to the
31   county treasurer in the amount due to each county.
32   The warrants shall be paid in a timely manner to
33   enable the county to accrue the payment in the
34   county's 1995-1996 fiscal year.
35     3.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the
36   relief fund allocated for the adjustment payment which
37   remain unobligated or unexpended at the close of the
38   fiscal year ending June 30, 1996, shall not revert to
39   the general fund of the state but shall remain
40   available for adjustment payments in the succeeding
41   fiscal year.
42     Sec. 124.  INTERIM COMMITTEE CREATED.  The
43   legislative council is requested to establish an
44   interim committee comprised of members of the general
45   assembly with the charge of developing a system to
46   regulate and contain county expenditures for mental
47   health, mental retardation, and developmental
48   disabilities services and to develop a formula for
49   distribution of property tax relief moneys to counties
50   under section 331.438A, subsection 2.  In addition,

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