House Journal: Page 1250: Tuesday, April 9, 2002
7 following:
8 "Sec. . NEW SECTION. 249A.21 INTERMEDIATE
9 CARE FACILITIES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION -
10 ASSESSMENT.
11 1. The department may assess intermediate care
12 facilities for persons with mental retardation, as
13 defined in section 135C.1, that are not operated by
14 the state, a fee in an amount not to exceed six
15 percent of the total annual revenue of the facility
16 for the preceding fiscal year. Counties shall not be
17 required to participate in the cost of the assessment.
18 2. The assessment shall be paid to the department
19 in equal monthly amounts on or before the fifteenth
20 day of each month. The department may deduct the
21 monthly amount from medical assistance payments to a
22 facility described in subsection 1. The amount
23 deducted from payments shall not exceed the total
24 amount of the assessments due.
25 3. Revenue from the assessments shall be credited
26 to the state medical assistance appropriation. This
27 revenue may be used only for services for which
28 federal financial participation under the medical
29 assistance program is available to match state funds.
30 4. If federal financial participation to match the
31 assessments made under subsection 1 becomes
32 unavailable under federal law, the department shall
33 terminate the imposing of the assessments beginning on
34 the date that the federal statutory, regulatory, or
35 interpretive change takes effect.
36 5. The department of human services may procure a
37 sole source contract to implement the provisions of
38 this section."
39 3. Page 142, by inserting after line 20, the
40 following:
41 " . The section in this division of this Act
42 relating to the assessment on intermediate care
43 facilities for persons with mental retardation."
44 4. By renumbering as necessary.
Roll call was requested by Smith of Marshall and Myers of
Johnson.
On the question "Shall amendment H-8573 be adopted?" (S.F.
2326)
The ayes were, 41:
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Atteberry | Bell | Bukta | Chiodo |
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Cohoon | Connors | Dotzler | Fallon |
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Foege | Ford | Frevert | Greimann |
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Hatch | Huser | Jochum | Kreiman |
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