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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 560, as amended, passed, and 1 2 reprinted by the House, as follows: 1 3 #1. Page 1, by striking lines 3 through 10, and 1 4 inserting the following: 1 5 "NEW SUBSECTION. 6. a. Effective July 1, 2003, 1 6 the provisions of the home and community-based 1 7 services waiver for persons with mental retardation 1 8 shall include adult day care, prevocational, and 1 9 transportation services. Transportation shall be 1 10 included as a separately payable service. 1 11 b. The department of human services shall seek 1 12 federal approval to amend the home and community-based 1 13 services waiver for persons with mental retardation to 1 14 include day habilitation services. Inclusion of day 1 15 habilitation services in the waiver shall take effect 1 16 upon receipt of federal approval and no later than 1 17 July 1, 2004. 1 18 c. The person's county of legal settlement shall 1 19 pay for the nonfederal share of the cost of services 1 20 provided under the waiver and the state shall pay for 1 21 the nonfederal share of such costs if the person does 1 22 not have a county of legal settlement." 1 23 #2. Page 1, by inserting after line 23, the 1 24 following: 1 25 "Sec. . REIMBURSEMENT REVIEW RATE 1 26 LIMITATIONS. 1 27 1. The department of human services shall review 1 28 the reimbursement methodology for the home and 1 29 community-based services waiver for persons with 1 30 mental retardation under the medical assistance 1 31 program in relationship to the goals and objectives of 1 32 the mental health and developmental disability 1 33 services system redesign being conducted by the mental 1 34 health and developmental disabilities commission. The 1 35 department shall submit a report of the findings of 1 36 the review and recommendations to the general assembly 1 37 by July 1, 2004. 1 38 2. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003, the 1 39 department of human services in cooperation with the 1 40 Iowa state association of counties and the Iowa 1 41 association of community providers shall establish 1 42 payment rate limitations for the services provided 1 43 under the home and community-based services waiver for 1 44 persons with mental retardation that are consistent 1 45 with the limitations used for the same or similar 1 46 services that are funded one hundred percent by the 1 47 counties. 1 48 Sec. . EMERGENCY RULES. The department of 1 49 human services shall adopt administrative rules under 1 50 section 17A.4, subsection 2, and section 17A.5, 2 1 subsection 2, paragraph "b", to implement the 2 2 provisions of this Act and the rules shall become 2 3 effective immediately upon filing or on a later 2 4 effective date specified in the rules, unless the 2 5 effective date is delayed by the administrative rules 2 6 review committee. Any rules adopted in accordance 2 7 with this section shall not take effect before the 2 8 rules are reviewed by the administrative rules review 2 9 committee. The delay authority provided to the 2 10 administrative rules review committee under section 2 11 17A.4, subsection 5, and section 17A.8, subsection 9, 2 12 shall be applicable to a delay imposed under this 2 13 section, notwithstanding a provision in those sections 2 14 making them inapplicable to section 17A.5, subsection 2 15 2, paragraph "b". Any rules adopted in accordance 2 16 with the provisions of this section shall also be 2 17 published as notice of intended action as provided in 2 18 section 17A.4." 2 19 #3. By renumbering as necessary. 2 20 2 21 2 22 2 23 MAGGIE TINSMAN 2 24 HF 560.702 80 2 25 pf/cl
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