House Journal: Page 1359: Thursday, April 11, 2002
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1 sections 170 through 174, if enacted, are repealed."
Amendment H-8664 was adopted.
Tremmel of Wapello asked and received unanimous consent to
withdraw amendment H-8670 filed by him from floor.
Kreiman of Davis asked and received unanimous consent that
amendment H-8618 be deferred.
Smith of Marshall offered amendment H-8656 filed by him from
the floor as follows:
H-8656
1 Amend House File 2623 as follows:
2 1. Page 17, by inserting after line 16, the
3 following:
4 "Sec. . NEW SECTION. 249A.21 INTERMEDIATE
5 CARE FACILITIES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION -
6 ASSESSMENT.
7 1. The department may assess intermediate care
8 facilities for persons with mental retardation, as
9 defined in section 135C.1, that are not operated by
10 the state, a fee in an amount not to exceed six
11 percent of the total annual revenue of the facility
12 for the preceding fiscal year. Counties shall not be
13 required to participate in the cost of the assessment.
14 2. The assessment shall be paid to the department
15 in equal monthly amounts on or before the fifteenth
16 day of each month. The department may deduct the
17 monthly amount from medical assistance payments to a
18 facility described in subsection 1. The amount
19 deducted from payments shall not exceed the total
20 amount of the assessments due.
21 3. Revenue from the assessments shall be credited
22 to the state medical assistance appropriation. This
23 revenue may be used only for services for which
24 federal financial participation under the medical
25 assistance program is available to match state funds.
26 4. If federal financial participation to match the
27 assessments made under subsection 1 becomes
28 unavailable under federal law, the department shall
29 terminate the imposing of the assessments beginning on
30 the date that the federal statutory, regulatory, or
31 interpretive change takes effect.
32 5. The department of human services may procure a
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