House Journal: Page 1252: Tuesday, April 9, 2002
12 5. Page 117, line 9, by striking the figure
13 "16,924,466" and inserting the following:
14 "17,512,336".
15 6. Page 136, by inserting after line 6, the
16 following:
17 "Sec. . NEW SECTION. 249A.21 INTERMEDIATE
18 CARE FACILITIES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION -
19 ASSESSMENT.
20 1. The department may assess intermediate care
21 facilities for persons with mental retardation, as
22 defined in section 135C.1, that are not operated by
23 the state, a fee in an amount not to exceed six
24 percent of the total annual revenue of the facility
25 for the preceding fiscal year. Counties shall not be
26 required to participate in the cost of the assessment.
27 2. The assessment shall be paid to the department
28 in equal monthly amounts on or before the fifteenth
29 day of each month. The department may deduct the
30 monthly amount from medical assistance payments to a
31 facility described in subsection 1. The amount
32 deducted from payments shall not exceed the total
33 amount of the assessments due.
34 3. Revenue from the assessments shall be credited
35 to the state medical assistance appropriation. This
36 revenue may be used only for services for which
37 federal financial participation under the medical
38 assistance program is available to match state funds.
39 4. If federal financial participation to match the
40 assessments made under subsection 1 becomes
41 unavailable under federal law, the department shall
42 terminate the imposing of the assessments beginning on
43 the date that the federal statutory, regulatory, or
44 interpretive change takes effect.
45 5. The department of human services may procure a
46 sole source contract to implement the provisions of
47 this section."
48 7. Page 142, by inserting after line 20, the
49 following:
50 " . The section in this division of this Act
Page 2
1 relating to the assessment on intermediate care
2 facilities for persons with mental retardation."
3 8. By renumbering as necessary.
Roll call was requested by Smith of Marshall and Bukta of Clinton.
On the question "Shall amendment H-8576 be adopted?" (S.F.
2326)
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