135H.10  Rules.
  1.  The department, in consultation with the department of health and human services and affected professional groups, shall adopt and enforce rules setting out the standards for a psychiatric medical institution for children and the rights of the residents admitted to a psychiatric institution. The department and the department of health and human services shall coordinate the adoption of rules and the enforcement of the rules in order to prevent duplication of effort by the departments and of requirements of the licensee.
  2.  This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit funds appropriated for foster care from being used to provide payment to a psychiatric medical institution for children for the financial participation required of a youth whose foster care placement is in a psychiatric medical institution for children. In accordance with established policies and procedures for foster care, the department of health and human services shall act to recover any such payment for financial participation, apply to be named payee for the youth’s unearned income, and recommend parental liability for the costs of a court-ordered foster care placement in a psychiatric institution.
89 Acts, ch 283, §11; 2001 Acts, ch 135, §30; 2012 Acts, ch 1133, §94; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §189, 1896; 2025 Acts, ch 86, §9
Subsection 2 amended