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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 700 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 1, by inserting after line 2, the 1 3 following: 1 4 "Section 1. Section 426B.5, subsection 2, 1 5 paragraph d, subparagraphs (1) and (6), Code 2003, are 1 6 amended to read as follows: 1 7 (1) A county must apply to the board for 1 8 assistance from the risk pool on or beforeApril 11 9 January 25 to cover an unanticipated net expenditure 1 10 amount in excess of the county's current fiscal year 1 11 budgeted net expenditure amount for the county's 1 12 services fund. The risk pool board shall make its 1 13 final decisions on or before February 25 regarding 1 14 acceptance or rejection of the applications for 1 15 assistance and the total amount accepted shall be 1 16 considered obligated. For purposes of applying for 1 17 risk pool assistance and for repaying unused risk pool 1 18 assistance, the current fiscal year budgeted net 1 19 expenditure amount shall be deemed to be the higher of 1 20 either the budgeted net expenditure amount in the 1 21 management plan approved under section 331.439 for the 1 22 fiscal year in which the application is made or the 1 23 prior fiscal year's net expenditure amount. 1 24 (6) The total amount of risk pool assistance shall 1 25 be limited to the amount available in the risk pool 1 26 for a fiscal year. If the total amount of eligible 1 27 assistance exceeds the amount available in the risk 1 28 pool the amount of assistance paid shall be prorated 1 29 among the counties eligible for assistance. Moneys 1 30 remaining unexpended or unobligated in the risk pool 1 31at the close of a fiscal year shall remain available1 32for distribution in the succeeding fiscal year1 33 following the risk pool board's decisions made 1 34 pursuant to subparagraph (1) shall be distributed to 1 35 the counties eligible to receive funding from the 1 36 allowed growth factor adjustment appropriation for the 1 37 fiscal year using the distribution methodology 1 38 applicable to that appropriation." 1 39 #2. Page 1, by inserting after line 25 the 1 40 following: 1 41 "Sec. . 2002 Iowa Acts, chapter 1175, section 1 42 104, subsections 2, 4 and 5, as amended by 2003 Iowa 1 43 Acts, House File 667, section 41, are amended to read 1 44 as follows: 1 45 2. The following formula amounts shall be utilized 1 46 only to calculate preliminary distribution amounts for 1 47 fiscal year 2003-2004 under this section by applying 1 48 the indicated formula provisions to the formula 1 49 amounts and producing a preliminary distribution total 1 50 for each county: 2 1 a. For calculation of an allowed growth factor 2 2 adjustment amount for each county in accordance with 2 3 the formula in section 331.438, subsection 2, 2 4 paragraph "b": 2 5 .................................................. $ 12,000,000 2 6 b. For calculation of a distribution amount for 2 7 eligible counties from the per capita expenditure 2 8 target pool created in the property tax relief fund in 2 9 accordance with the requirements in section 426B.5, 2 10 subsection 1: 2 11 .................................................. $12,492,7122 12 14,492,000 2 13 c. For calculation of a distribution amount for 2 14 counties from the mental health and developmental 2 15 disabilities (MH/DD) community services fund in 2 16 accordance with the formula provided in the 2 17 appropriation made for the MH/DD community services 2 18 fund for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003: 2 19 .................................................. $ 17,727,890 2 20 4. After applying the applicable statutory 2 21 distribution formulas to the amounts indicated in 2 22 subsection 2 for purposes to produce preliminary 2 23 distribution totals, the department of human services 2 24 shall apply a withholding factor to adjust an eligible 2 25 individual county's preliminary distribution total. 2 26 An ending balance percentage for each county shall be 2 27 determined by expressing the county's ending balance 2 28 on a modified accrual basis under generally accepted 2 29 accounting principles for the fiscal year beginning 2 30 July 1, 2002, in the county's mental health, mental 2 31 retardation, and developmental disabilities services 2 32 fund created under section 331.424A, as a percentage 2 33 of the county's gross expenditures from that fund for 2 34 that fiscal year. The withholding factor for a county 2 35 shall be the following applicable percent: 2 36 a. For an ending balance percentage of less than 2 37 10 percent, a withholding factor of 0 percent. In 2 38 addition to the county's adjusted distribution total, 2 39 a county that is subject to this paragraph "a" shall 2 40 receive an inflation adjustment equal to 2.6 percent 2 41 of the gross expenditures reported for the county's 2 42 services fund for that fiscal year. 2 43 b. For an ending balance percentage of 10 through 2 44 24 percent, a withholding factor of 25 percent. 2 45 c. For an ending balance percentage of 25 through 2 46 34 percent, a withholding factor of 60 percent. 2 47d. For an ending balance percentage of 35 through2 4844 percent, a withholding factor of 85 percent.2 49e.d. For an ending balance percentage of4535 2 50 percent or more, a withholding factor of 100 percent. 3 1 5. The total withholding amounts applied pursuant 3 2 to subsection 4 shall be equal to a withholding target 3 3 amount of$7,419,074 and the appropriation enacted by3 4the Eightieth General Assembly, 2003 Session, for the3 5MH/DD community services fund shall be reduced by the3 6amount necessary to attain the withholding target3 7amount$9,418,362. If the department of human 3 8 services determines that the amount to be withheld in 3 9 accordance with subsection 4 is not equal to the 3 10 target withholding amount, the department shall adjust 3 11 the withholding factors listed in subsection 4 as 3 12 necessary to achieve the withholding target amount. 3 13 However, in making such adjustments to the withholding 3 14 factors, the department shall strive to minimize 3 15 changes to the withholding factors for those ending 3 16 balance percentage ranges that are lower than others 3 17 and shall not adjust the zero withholding factor or 3 18 the inflation adjustment percentage specified in 3 19 subsection 4, paragraph "a"." 3 20 3 21 3 22 3 23 CARROLL of Poweshiek 3 24 HF 700.305 80 3 25 jp/cf
Text: H01572 Text: H01574 Text: H01500 - H01599 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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