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House Journal: Page 1995: Thursday, April 27, 1995

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

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