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Senate Amendment 3131

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 236 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1, the
  1  3 following:  
  1  4                      "DIVISION I".
  1  5    #2.  Page 6, line 25, by striking the figure "2000"
  1  6 and inserting the following:  "1999".
  1  7    #3.  Page 6, by inserting after line 25 the
  1  8 following:  
  1  9                      "DIVISION II
  1 10    Sec. 101.  Section 68B.35, subsection 2, paragraph
  1 11 e, Code 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1 12    e.  Members of the banking board, the ethics and
  1 13 campaign disclosure board, the credit union review
  1 14 board, the economic development board, the employment
  1 15 appeal board, the environmental protection commission,
  1 16 the health facilities council, the Iowa business
  1 17 investment corporation board of directors, the Iowa
  1 18 finance authority, the Iowa seed capital corporation,
  1 19 the Iowa public employees' retirement system
  1 20 investment board, the lottery board, the natural
  1 21 resource commission, the board of parole, the
  1 22 petroleum underground storage tank fund board, the
  1 23 public employment relations board, the state racing
  1 24 and gaming commission, the state board of regents, the
  1 25 tax review board, the transportation commission, the
  1 26 office of consumer advocate, the utilities board, the
  1 27 Iowa telecommunications and technology commission, and
  1 28 any full-time members of other boards and commissions
  1 29 as defined under section 7E.4 who receive an annual
  1 30 salary for their service on the board or commission.
  1 31    Sec. 102.  Section 97B.41, subsection 8, paragraph
  1 32 b, subparagraph (13), Code 1997, is amended to read as
  1 33 follows:
  1 34    (13)  Members of the state transportation
  1 35 commission, and the board of parole, and the state
  1 36 health facilities council unless a member elects by
  1 37 filing an application with the department to be
  1 38 covered under this chapter.
  1 39    Sec. 103.  Section 135.74, subsections 1 and 3,
  1 40 Code 1997, are amended to read as follows:
  1 41    1.  The department, after study and in consultation
  1 42 with any advisory committees which may be established
  1 43 pursuant to law, shall promulgate by rule pursuant to
  1 44 chapter 17A uniform methods of financial reporting,
  1 45 including such allocation methods as may be
  1 46 prescribed, by which hospitals and health care
  1 47 facilities shall respectively record their revenues,
  1 48 expenses, other income, other outlays, assets and
  1 49 liabilities, and units of service, according to
  1 50 functional activity center.  These uniform methods of
  2  1 financial reporting shall not preclude a hospital or
  2  2 health care facility from using any accounting methods
  2  3 for its own purposes provided these accounting methods
  2  4 can be reconciled to the uniform methods of financial
  2  5 reporting prescribed by the department and can be
  2  6 audited for validity and completeness.  Each hospital
  2  7 and each health care facility shall adopt the
  2  8 appropriate system for its fiscal year, effective upon
  2  9 such date as the department shall direct.  In
  2 10 determining the effective date for reporting
  2 11 requirements, the department shall consider both the
  2 12 immediate need for uniform reporting of information to
  2 13 effectuate the purposes of this division sections
  2 14 135.74 through 135.78 and the administrative and
  2 15 economic difficulties which hospitals and health care
  2 16 facilities may encounter in complying with the uniform
  2 17 financial reporting requirement, but the effective
  2 18 date shall not be later than January 1, 1980.
  2 19    3.  The department shall, where appropriate,
  2 20 provide for modification, consistent with the purposes
  2 21 of this division sections 135.74 through 135.78, of
  2 22 reporting requirements to correctly reflect the
  2 23 differences among hospitals and among health care
  2 24 facilities referred to in subsection 2, and to avoid
  2 25 otherwise unduly burdensome costs in meeting the
  2 26 requirements of uniform methods of financial
  2 27 reporting.
  2 28    Sec. 104.  Section 135.75, subsection 2, Code 1997,
  2 29 is amended to read as follows:
  2 30    2.  Where more than one licensed hospital or health
  2 31 care facility is operated by the reporting
  2 32 organization, the information required by this section
  2 33 shall be reported separately for each licensed
  2 34 hospital or health care facility.  The department
  2 35 shall require preparation of specified financial
  2 36 reports by a certified public accountant, and may
  2 37 require attestation of responsible officials of the
  2 38 reporting hospital or health care facility that the
  2 39 reports submitted are to the best of their knowledge
  2 40 and belief prepared in accordance with the prescribed
  2 41 methods of reporting.  The department shall have the
  2 42 right to inspect the books, audits and records of any
  2 43 hospital or health care facility as reasonably
  2 44 necessary to verify reports submitted pursuant to this
  2 45 division sections 135.74 through 135.78.
  2 46    Sec. 105.  Section 135.76, subsection 1, Code 1997,
  2 47 is amended to read as follows:
  2 48    1.  The department shall from time to time
  2 49 undertake analyses and studies relating to hospital
  2 50 and health care facility costs and to the financial
  3  1 status of hospitals or health care facilities, or
  3  2 both, which are subject to the provisions of this
  3  3 division sections 135.74 through 135.78.  It shall
  3  4 further require the filing of information concerning
  3  5 the total financial needs of each individual hospital
  3  6 or health care facility and the resources currently or
  3  7 prospectively available to meet these needs, including
  3  8 the effect of proposals made by health systems
  3  9 agencies.  The department shall also prepare and file
  3 10 such summaries and compilations or other supplementary
  3 11 reports based on the information filed with it as
  3 12 will, in its judgment, advance the purposes of this
  3 13 division sections 135.74 through 135.78.
  3 14    Sec. 106.  Section 135.77, Code 1997, is amended to
  3 15 read as follows:
  3 16    135.77  REPORT TO GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE.
  3 17    The department shall annually prepare and transmit
  3 18 to the governor and to the general assembly, on or
  3 19 before the date of the convening of each regular
  3 20 session of the general assembly, a report of the
  3 21 department's operations and activities pursuant to
  3 22 this division sections 135.74 through 135.78 for the
  3 23 preceding fiscal year.  This report shall include a
  3 24 compilation of all summaries and reports required by
  3 25 this division sections 135.74 through 135.78 together
  3 26 with such findings and recommendations as the
  3 27 department deems necessary.
  3 28    Sec. 107.  Section 135C.2, subsection 5, unnumbered
  3 29 paragraph 1, Code 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  3 30    The department shall establish a special
  3 31 classification within the residential care facility
  3 32 category in order to foster the development of
  3 33 residential care facilities which serve persons with
  3 34 mental retardation, chronic mental illness, a
  3 35 developmental disability, or brain injury, as
  3 36 described under section 225C.26, and which contain
  3 37 five or fewer residents.  A facility within the
  3 38 special classification established pursuant to this
  3 39 subsection is exempt from the requirements of section
  3 40 135.63.  The department shall adopt rules which are
  3 41 consistent with rules previously developed for the
  3 42 waiver demonstration project pursuant to 1986 Iowa
  3 43 Acts, chapter 1246, section 206, and which include all
  3 44 of the following provisions:
  3 45    Sec. 108.  Section 231B.2, subsection 1, Code 1997,
  3 46 is amended to read as follows:
  3 47    1.  The department shall establish by rule in
  3 48 accordance with chapter 17A a special classification
  3 49 for elder group homes.  An elder group home
  3 50 established pursuant to this subsection is exempt from
  4  1 the requirements of section 135.63.
  4  2    Sec. 109.  Section 231C.3, subsection 1, Code 1997,
  4  3 is amended to read as follows:
  4  4    1.  The department shall establish, by rule in
  4  5 accordance with chapter 17A, a program for
  4  6 certification and monitoring of assisted living
  4  7 programs.  An assisted living program which is
  4  8 voluntarily accredited is not required to also be
  4  9 certified by the department and the department shall
  4 10 accept voluntary accreditation in lieu of
  4 11 certification by the department.  An assisted living
  4 12 program certified or voluntarily accredited under this
  4 13 section is exempt from the requirements of section
  4 14 135.63 relating to certificate of need requirements.
  4 15    Sec. 110.  Section 708.3A, subsection 5, is amended
  4 16 to read as follows:
  4 17    5.  As used in this section, "health care provider"
  4 18 means an emergency medical care provider as defined in
  4 19 chapter 147A or a person licensed or registered under
  4 20 chapter 148, 148C, 148D, 150, 150A, or 152 who is
  4 21 providing or who is attempting to provide emergency
  4 22 medical services, as defined in section 147A.1, or who
  4 23 is providing or who is attempting to provide health
  4 24 services as defined in section 135.61 in a hospital.
  4 25 A person who commits an assault under this section
  4 26 against a health care provider in a hospital, or at
  4 27 the scene or during out-of-hospital patient
  4 28 transportation in an ambulance, is presumed to know
  4 29 that the person against whom the assault is committed
  4 30 is a health care provider.
  4 31    Sec. 111.  Sections 135.61 through 135.73, Code
  4 32 1997, are repealed.
  4 33    Sec. 112.  Sections 101 through 110 take effect
  4 34 July 1, 1999."
  4 35    #4.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  4 36 
  4 37 
  4 38                               
  4 39 MARY LOU FREEMAN
  4 40 SF 236.202 77
  4 41 pf/jj/28
     

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