249A.30A  Medical assistance — personal needs allowance.
  The personal needs allowance under the medical assistance program, which may be retained by a person who is a resident of a nursing facility, an intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability, or an intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness, as defined in section 135C.1, or a person who is a resident of a psychiatric medical institution for children as defined in section 135H.1, shall be fifty dollars per month. A resident who has income of less than fifty dollars per month shall receive a supplement from the state in the amount necessary to receive a personal needs allowance of fifty dollars per month, if funding is specifically appropriated for this purpose.
2006 Acts, ch 1113, §1
; 2007 Acts, ch 218, §44
; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §41
; 2012 Acts, ch 1019, §107
FY 2013-2014 and FY 2014-2015 allocations for monthly personal needs allowance of fifty dollars; 
2013 Acts, ch 138, §12, 142