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House Journal: Page 1461: Thursday, April 9, 1998

H-9035

 1     Amend Senate File 2410, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 31, line 6, by striking the figure
 4   "30,923,872" and inserting the following:
 5   "31,113,468".
Amendment H-9035 was adopted.
Houser of Pottawattamie offered the following amendment H-9059
filed by him from the floor and moved its adoption:

H-9059

 1     Amend Senate File 2410, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 31, by striking lines 9 through 13 and
 4   inserting the following:
 5     "b.  (1)  If at any time after September 30, 1998,
 6   annualization of a region's current expenditures
 7   indicates a region is at risk of exceeding its group
 8   foster care expenditure target under section 232.143
 9   by more than five percent, the department and juvenile
10   court services shall examine all group foster care
11   placements in that region in order to identify those
12   which might be appropriate for termination.  In
13   addition, any aftercare services believed to be needed
14   for the children whose placements may be terminated
15   shall be identified.  The department and juvenile
16   court services shall initiate action to set
17   dispositional review hearings for the placements
18   identified.  In such a dispositional review hearing,
19   the juvenile court shall determine whether needed
20   aftercare services are available and whether
21   termination of the placement is in the best interest
22   of the child and the community.
23     (2)  The department shall provide quarterly reports
24   to the judicial department, juvenile court services,
25   the legislative fiscal bureau, and decategorization
26   boards on the number of children placed in group
27   foster care and the amount of expenditure for group
28   foster care by county.  The department shall
29   coordinate with the child welfare services work group
30   created in November 1997, by the legislative council
31   and with interested decategorization counties to
32   identify information systems and reports across all
33   services and placements that would support utilization
34   management decisions.  The department shall identify
35   the resources needed to develop and implement such a
36   system and its fiscal benefits, and report to the
37   general assembly by February 1, 1999."
38     2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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