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House Journal: Page 2013: Tuesday, April 30, 1996

ees are necessary to replace county-funded positions eliminated
due to termination, reduction, or nonrenewal of a chapter 28E
contract.  However, the director must also determine that the
resulting increase in the state share of child support recovery
incentives exceeds the cost of the positions, the positions are
necessary to ensure continued federal funding of the program, or
the new positions can reasonably be expected to recover at least
twice the amount of money necessary to pay the salaries and
support for the new positions.
5.  The child support recovery unit shall continue to work with
the judicial department to determine the feasibility of a pilot
project utilizing a court-appointed referee for judicial
determinations on child support matters.  The extent and
location of any pilot project shall be jointly developed by the
judicial department and the child support recovery unit.
6.  The department shall expend up to $50,000, including federal
financial participation, for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
1996, for a child support public awareness campaign. The
department shall cooperate with the office of the attorney
general in continuation of the campaign.  The public awareness
campaign shall emphasize, through a variety of media activities
and through continuation of the publication of names of persons
who are delinquent in payment of child support obligations, the
importance of maximum involvement of both parents in the lives
of their children as well as the importance of payment of child
support obligations.
7.  The department shall continue the pilot program option to
provide and supervise a community service pilot project for
absent parents who are ordered by the court to perform community
service for failure to pay child support pursuant to section
598.23A.
8.  The director of human services may enter a contract with
private collection agencies to collect support payments for
cases which have been identified by the department as difficult
collection cases if the department determines that this form of
collection is more cost effective than departmental collection
methods.  The director may use a portion of the state share of
funds collected through this means to pay the costs of any
contracts authorized under this subsection.
9.  The department shall employ on or before July 2, 1996, at
least 1.00 FTE to respond to telephone inquiries during all
weekly business hours.
10.  The department shall develop guidelines to be used in lieu
of the child support guidelines prescribed under section 598.21,
subsection 4, for establishing a support obligation and the
amount of the support debt accrued and accruing pursuant to
section 234.39 for the costs of foster care services.  The
proposed guidelines shall reflect the public purpose of
establishing a support obligation without causing a serious
disruption of the family of the obligor.  The department shall
submit the proposed guidelines to the general assembly on or
before January 15, 1997.
Sec. 9.  JUVENILE INSTITUTIONS.  There is appropriated from the
general fund of the state to the department of human services
for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, and ending June 30,
1997, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary,
to be used for the purposes designated:
For the operation of the state training school and the Iowa
juvenile home, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes and for not more than the following
full-time equivalent positions:
For the state juvenile institutions: 

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