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Senate File 370

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 89.2, subsection 5, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  A building or structure primarily used as a theater,
  1  4 motion picture theater, museum, arena, exhibition hall,
  1  5 school, college, dormitory, bowling alley, physical fitness
  1  6 center, family entertainment center, lodge hall, union hall,
  1  7 pool hall, casino, place of worship, funeral home, institution
  1  8 of health and custodial care, hospital, or child care or adult
  1  9 day care services.
  1 10    Sec. 2.  Section 135C.1, subsection 1, Code 2001, is
  1 11 amended to read as follows:
  1 12    1.  "Adult day care services" means an organized program of
  1 13 supportive care provided for sixteen hours or less in a
  1 14 twenty-four-hour period to persons who require support and
  1 15 assistance on a regular or intermittent basis adult day
  1 16 services as defined in section 231.61 that are provided in a
  1 17 licensed health care facility.
  1 18    Sec. 3.  Section 135C.2, subsection 6, paragraph a, Code
  1 19 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1 20    6.  a.  This chapter shall not apply to adult day care
  1 21 services provided in a health care facility.  However, adult
  1 22 day care services shall not be provided by a health care
  1 23 facility to persons requiring a level of care which is higher
  1 24 than the level of care the facility is licensed to provide.
  1 25    Sec. 4.  Section 135C.33, subsection 5, paragraph a, Code
  1 26 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1 27    a.  An employee of a homemaker, home-health aide, home-care
  1 28 aide, adult day care services, or other provider of in-home
  1 29 services if the employee provides direct services to
  1 30 consumers.
  1 31    Sec. 5.  Section 234.6, subsection 6, paragraph a, Code
  1 32 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1 33    a.  Child care for children or adult day care for adults
  1 34 services, in facilities which are licensed or are approved as
  1 35 meeting standards for licensure.
  2  1    Sec. 6.  NEW SECTION.  231.61  ADULT DAY SERVICES
  2  2 REQUIREMENTS – OVERSIGHT.
  2  3    1.  As used in this section, unless the context otherwise
  2  4 requires, "adult day services" means personal care services
  2  5 provided on a planned basis in a supervised, protective,
  2  6 congregate setting during some portion of the twenty-four hour
  2  7 day.  Services offered as adult day services may include but
  2  8 are not limited to social, recreational, or health services,
  2  9 support services such as training and counseling, meals,
  2 10 medication assistance, rehabilitation services, and home
  2 11 health aide services.  Adult day services provided in an
  2 12 existing facility, must have separate and distinct staff,
  2 13 hours of operation, and designated space.
  2 14    2.  The department shall establish, in cooperation with the
  2 15 department of inspections and appeals, the department of human
  2 16 services, the Iowa department of public health, the area
  2 17 agencies on aging, industry representatives, and consumers, a
  2 18 system of oversight for all adult day services in the state.
  2 19 The system shall address, but is not limited to, all of the
  2 20 following:
  2 21    a.  Requirements for the operation of adult day services.
  2 22    b.  Oversight measures including evaluation of adult day
  2 23 services and assessment of compliance with rules for adult day
  2 24 services.
  2 25    c.  A system for formal investigation of consumer
  2 26 complaints relating to adult day services.
  2 27    d.  Coordination of requirements and funding sources
  2 28 available to adult day services.
  2 29    3.  The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter
  2 30 17A to implement the system.
  2 31    Sec. 7.  Section 235B.2, subsection 14, Code 2001, is
  2 32 amended to read as follows:
  2 33    14.  "Support services" includes but is not limited to
  2 34 community-based services including area agency on aging
  2 35 assistance, mental health services, fiscal management, home
  3  1 health services, housing-related services, counseling
  3  2 services, transportation services, adult day care services,
  3  3 respite services, legal services, and advocacy services.
  3  4    Sec. 8.  Section 249H.2, subsection 1, paragraph d, Code
  3  5 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  3  6    d.  The supported development of long-term care
  3  7 alternatives, including assisted-living facility services,
  3  8 adult day care services, and home and community-based
  3  9 services, is critical in areas of the state where such
  3 10 alternatives otherwise are not likely to be developed.
  3 11    Sec. 9.  Section 249H.6, subsection 5, Code 2001, is
  3 12 amended to read as follows:
  3 13    5.  In addition to the types of grants described in
  3 14 subsection 1, the department of human services, at the
  3 15 direction of the senior living coordinating unit, may also use
  3 16 moneys appropriated to the department from the senior living
  3 17 trust fund to award grants, of not more than one hundred
  3 18 thousand dollars per grant, to licensed nursing facilities
  3 19 that are awarded nursing facility conversion grants and agree,
  3 20 as part of the nursing facility conversion, to also provide
  3 21 adult day care services, child care for children with special
  3 22 needs, safe shelter for victims of dependent adult abuse, or
  3 23 respite care.
  3 24    Sec. 10.  Section 249H.7, subsection 1, Code 2001, is
  3 25 amended to read as follows:
  3 26    1.  Beginning October 1, 2000, the department of elder
  3 27 affairs, in consultation with the senior living coordinating
  3 28 unit, shall use funds appropriated from the senior living
  3 29 trust fund for activities related to the design, maintenance,
  3 30 or expansion of home and community-based services for seniors,
  3 31 including but not limited to adult day care services, personal
  3 32 care, respite, homemaker, chore, and transportation services
  3 33 designed to promote the independence of and to delay the use
  3 34 of institutional care by seniors with low and moderate
  3 35 incomes.  At any time that moneys are appropriated, the
  4  1 department of elder affairs, in consultation with the senior
  4  2 living coordinating unit, shall disburse the funds to the area
  4  3 agencies on aging.
  4  4    Sec. 11.  Section 422.45, subsection 22, paragraph c, Code
  4  5 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  4  6    c.  Rehabilitation facilities that provide accredited
  4  7 rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities which are
  4  8 accredited by the commission on accreditation of
  4  9 rehabilitation facilities or the accreditation council for
  4 10 services for persons with mental retardation and other persons
  4 11 with developmental disabilities and adult day care services
  4 12 approved for reimbursement by the state department of human
  4 13 services.
  4 14    Sec. 12.  IMPLEMENTATION – CONTINGENCY.  The department
  4 15 shall implement the adult day services system developed
  4 16 pursuant to section 231.61 on July 1, 2002, or at such time as
  4 17 the general assembly appropriates sufficient funding to
  4 18 implement the system.  
  4 19                           EXPLANATION
  4 20    This bill directs the department of elder affairs to
  4 21 develop a system of oversight for adult day services.  The
  4 22 bill directs the department of elder affairs, in cooperation
  4 23 with the department of inspections and appeals, the department
  4 24 of human services, the Iowa department of public health, the
  4 25 area agencies on aging, industry representatives, and
  4 26 consumers to develop a system which is to address requirements
  4 27 for the operation of adult day services in the state;
  4 28 oversight measures including evaluation of services and
  4 29 assessment of compliance with rules of adult day services; a
  4 30 system for formal investigation of consumer complaints
  4 31 relating to these services; and coordination of requirements
  4 32 and funding sources available to adult day services.  The bill
  4 33 also directs the department of elder affairs to adopt rules to
  4 34 implement the system.  The bill provides that the department
  4 35 of elder affairs is to implement the system on July 1, 2002,
  5  1 or at such time as the general assembly appropriates
  5  2 sufficient funding for such implementation.
  5  3    The bill also makes conforming changes throughout the Code
  5  4 which relate to adult day services.  
  5  5 LSB 2302XS 79
  5  6 pf/cf/24
     

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