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House Journal: Page 1359: Tuesday, April 7, 1998

Amendment H-8963, as amended, was adopted.
Nelson of Marshall offered the following amendment H-8946 filed
by her and Grundberg of Polk and moved its adoption:

H-8946

 1     Amend Senate File 2280, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 8, by inserting after line 15 the
 4   following:
 5     "(3)  The division shall establish an interagency
 6   work group to conduct an evaluation of the
 7   effectiveness of all existing federal and state funded
 8   substance abuse treatment and prevention programs in
 9   the state.  Evaluation issues and components to be
10   examined by the interagency work group shall include,
11   but are not limited to, access to treatment;
12   identification of all state and federal funds spent on
13   treatment and prevention programs, including insurance
14   plan components and employee assistance programs;
15   substance abuse relapse rates; the reasons for
16   different outcomes in different programs; costs of
17   service delivery; the relationship of outcomes to cost
18   offsets such as a decline in arrest rates and
19   hospitalizations; review of managed care approaches
20   and exemplary programs in other states; and the
21   profiling of clients by the types of substances
22   abused.
23     The interagency work group shall be comprised of
24   representatives from the department of human services,
25   the department of public health, the department of
26   corrections, the governor's alliance on substance
27   abuse, the state department of personnel, and the
28   judicial department.
29     The department shall submit a report containing the
30   recommendations of the interagency work group to the
31   governor and the general assembly by January 1, 2000."
Amendment H-8946 was adopted.
Hansen of Pottawattamie offered the following amendment H-8980
filed by him, Foege of Linn, and Rants of Woodbury from the
floor and moved its adoption:

H-8980

 1     Amend Senate File 2280, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 10, line 5, by inserting after the word
 4   "department" the following:  ", in consultation with
 5   the advisory committee for perinatal guidelines,".

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