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House Journal: Page 2022: Tuesday, April 30, 1996

financing for the development of affordable community-based
housing facilities. The department shall assure that clients are
referred to the housing as it is developed.
2.  The funds appropriated in this section are to provide funds
for construction and start-up costs to develop community living
arrangements to provide for persons with mental illness who are
homeless.  These funds may be used to match federal Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act grant funds.
Sec. 16.  FAMILY SUPPORT SUBSIDY PROGRAM.  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 by the division of children and family
services for the purpose designated:
For the family support subsidy program:  
	 $	  1,344,000
The division of children and family services shall utilize not
more than $200,000 of the funds appropriated in this section to
implement a pilot project of the children-at-home component
under the comprehensive family support program in at least one
rural and one urban county.  Not more than $50,000 of the funds
allocated in this paragraph shall be used for administrative
costs.  
Sec. 17.  SPECIAL NEEDS GRANTS.  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 purpose designated:
To provide special needs grants to families with a family member
at home who has a developmental disability or to a person with a
developmental disability:  
	 $	     53,212
Grants must be used by a family to defray special costs of
caring for the family member to prevent out-of-home placement of
the family member or to provide for independent living costs. 
The grants may be administered by a private nonprofit agency
which serves people statewide provided that no administrative
costs are received by the agency.  Regular reports regarding the
special needs grants with the family support subsidy program and
an annual report concerning the characteristics of the grantees
shall be provided to the legislative fiscal bureau.
Sec. 18.  MI/MR/DD STATE CASES.  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 purchase of local services for persons with mental illness,
mental retardation, and developmental disabilities where the
client has no established county of legal settlement:  
	 $	  5,454,000
If a county has a county management plan which is approved by
the director of human services pursuant to section 331.439, the
services paid for under this section are exempt from the
department's purchase of service system requirements.  The
department shall adopt rules to implement the provisions of this
paragraph.

Iowa General Assembly

Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 2)

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