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House Journal: Page 2023: Tuesday, April 30, 1996

Sec. 19.  MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES -
COMMUNITY SERVICES FUND.  There is appropriated from the general
fund of the state to the mental health and developmental
disabilities community services fund created in section 225C.7
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:
For mental health and developmental disabilities community
services in accordance with this Act:  
	 $	 16,230,000
1.  Of the funds appropriated in this section, $15,951,138 shall
be allocated to counties for funding of community-based mental
health and developmental disabilities services.  The moneys
shall be allocated to a county as follows:
a.  Fifty percent based upon the county's proportion of the
state's population of persons with an annual income which is
equal to or less than the poverty guideline established by the
federal office of management and budget.
b.  Fifty percent based upon the county's proportion of the
state's general population.
2.  a.  A county shall utilize the funding the county receives
pursuant to subsection 1 for services provided to persons with a
disability, as defined in section 225C.2. However, no more than
50 percent of the funding shall be used for services provided to
any one of the service populations.
b.  A county shall use at least 50 percent of the funding the
county receives under subsection 1 for contemporary services
provided to persons with a disability, as described in rules
adopted by the department.
3.  Of the funds appropriated in this section, $30,000 shall be
used to support the Iowa compass program providing computerized
information and referral services for Iowans with disabilities
and their families.
4.  The department shall submit an annual report concerning each
population served and each service funded in this section to the
chairpersons and ranking members of the joint appropriations
subcommittee on human services and the legislative fiscal bureau.
5.  Of the funds appropriated in this section, not more than
$248,862 shall be provided to those counties having supplemental
per diem contracts in effect on June 30, 1994, which were
originally ini
tiated under 1993 Iowa Acts, chapter 172, section 16, subsection
2.  The amount provided to each county shall be equal to the
amount the county would be eligible to receive under the
supplemental per diem contracts in effect on June 30, 1994, if
the contracts were continued in effect for the entire fiscal
year beginning July 1, 1996.
6.  a.  Funding from the federal social services block grant in
the amount of $13,038,763 is allocated for distribution to
counties for local purchase of services for persons with mental
illness or mental retardation or other developmental disability.
b.  The funds allocated in this subsection shall be expended by
counties in accordance with eligibility guidelines established
in the department's rules outlin

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