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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend Senate File 458 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 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 4. After applying the applicable statutory 1 46 distribution formulas to the amounts indicated in 1 47 subsection 2 for purposes to produce preliminary 1 48 distribution totals, the department of human services 1 49 shall apply a withholding factor to adjust an eligible 1 50 individual county's preliminary distribution total. 2 1 An ending balance percentage for each county shall be 2 2 determined by expressing the county's ending balance 2 3 on a modified accrual basis under generally accepted 2 4 accounting principles for the fiscal year beginning 2 5 July 1, 2002, in the county's mental health, mental 2 6 retardation, and developmental disabilities services 2 7 fund created under section 331.424A, as a percentage 2 8 of the county's gross expenditures from that fund for 2 9 that fiscal year. The withholding factor for a county 2 10 shall be the following applicable percent: 2 11 a. For an ending balance percentage of less than 2 12 10 percent, a withholding factor of 0 percent. In 2 13 addition to the county's adjusted distribution total, 2 14 a county that is subject to this paragraph "a" shall 2 15 receive an inflation adjustment equal to 2.6 percent 2 16 of the gross expenditures reported for the county's 2 17 services fund for that fiscal year. 2 18 b. For an ending balance percentage of 10 through 2 19 24 percent, a withholding factor of 25 percent. 2 20 c. For an ending balance percentage of 25 through 2 21 34 percent, a withholding factor of 60 percent. 2 22d. For an ending balance percentage of 35 through2 2344 percent, a withholding factor of 85 percent.2 24e.d. For an ending balance percentage of4535 2 25 percent or more, a withholding factor of 100 percent. 2 26 5. The total withholding amounts applied pursuant 2 27 to subsection 4 shall be equal to a withholding target 2 28 amount of $7,419,074 and the appropriation enacted by 2 29 the Eightieth General Assembly, 2003 Session, for the 2 30 MH/DD community services fund shall be reduced by the 2 31 amount necessary to attain the withholding target 2 32 amount. If the department of human services 2 33 determines that the amount to be withheld in 2 34 accordance with subsection 4 is not equal to the 2 35 target withholding amount, the department shall adjust 2 36 the withholding factors listed in subsection 4 as 2 37 necessary to achieve the withholding target amount. 2 38 However, in making such adjustments to the withholding 2 39 factors, the department shall strive to minimize 2 40 changes to the withholding factors for those ending 2 41 balance percentage ranges that are lower than others 2 42 and shall not adjust the zero withholding factor or 2 43 the inflation adjustment percentage specified in 2 44 subsection 4, paragraph "a"." 2 45 2 46 2 47 2 48 HUBERT M. HOUSER 2 49 MAGGIE TINSMAN 2 50 SF 458.502 80 3 1 jp/cl
Text: S03345 Text: S03347 Text: S03300 - S03399 Text: S Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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