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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 232.52, subsection 2A, Code Supplement 1 2 2003, is amended by striking the subsection. 1 3 Sec. 2. Section 232.102, subsection 1A, Code Supplement 1 4 2003, is amended by striking the subsection. 1 5 Sec. 3. Section 232.117, subsection 4, Code Supplement 1 6 2003, is amended by striking the subsection. 1 7 Sec. 4. Section 232.127, subsection 8, Code Supplement 1 8 2003, is amended by striking the subsection. 1 9 Sec. 5. Section 232.188, subsection 4, Code Supplement 1 10 2003, is amended to read as follows: 1 11 4. In a decategorization agreement, the department and the 1 12 county's or group of counties' decategorization governance 1 13 board shall agree on all of the following items: the 1 14 governance relationship between the department and the 1 15 decategorization governance board; the respective areas of 1 16 autonomy of the department and the board; the budgeting 1 17 structure for the decategorization; and a method for resolving 1 18 disputes between the department and the board. The 1 19 decategorization agreement shall require the department and 1 20 the decategorization governance board to agree upon a budget 1 21within sixty days of the date by which the regional group1 22foster care budget targets are determined under section1 23232.143 foron or before August 31 of the fiscal year to which 1 24 the budget applies. The budget may later be modified to 1 25 reflect new or changed circumstances. 1 26 Sec. 6. Section 234.35, subsection 1, paragraph e, Code 1 27 Supplement 2003, is amended to read as follows: 1 28 e. When a court has entered an order transferring the 1 29 legal custody of the child to a foster care placement pursuant 1 30 to section 232.52, subsection 2, paragraph "d", or section 1 31 232.102, subsection 1.However, payment for a group foster1 32care placement shall be limited to those placements which1 33conform to a regional group foster care plan established1 34pursuant to section 232.143.1 35 Sec. 7. Section 232.143, Code Supplement 2003, is 2 1 repealed. 2 2 EXPLANATION 2 3 This bill repeals restrictions in the juvenile justice code 2 4 in Code chapter 232 on court orders for placement of children 2 5 in group foster care. 2 6 Under current law, the general assembly annually 2 7 establishes, in an appropriation made to the department of 2 8 human services, a statewide expenditure target for children in 2 9 group foster care placements. Representatives of the 2 10 department and juvenile court services then allocate the 2 11 statewide target among the department's service areas based 2 12 upon a formula. Local representatives of the department and 2 13 juvenile court services develop a plan for the service area to 2 14 remain within the expenditure target. State payment for group 2 15 foster care services is limited to those placements that 2 16 comply with the plan and the juvenile court is prohibited from 2 17 ordering a group foster care placement that does not comply 2 18 with the plan. 2 19 The bill repeals the expenditure target requirements in 2 20 Code section 232.143, strikes the Code subsections limiting 2 21 the juvenile court authority to issue dispositional orders for 2 22 group foster care placements, and makes conforming changes in 2 23 related provisions. 2 24 LSB 5686XS 80 2 25 jp/sh/8
Text: SF02134 Text: SF02136 Text: SF02100 - SF02199 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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