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House Journal: Page 894: Wednesday, March 22, 1995

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

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