House Amendment 8459


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 2780 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  Page 10, by inserting after line 23 the
     1  3 following:
     1  4                      <DIVISION    
     1  5                 ALLOWED GROWTH FUNDING
     1  6    Sec.    .  Section 426B.5, subsection 1, Code
     1  7 Supplement 2005, is amended to read as follows:
     1  8    1.  PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE TARGET POOL.
     1  9    a.  A per capita expenditure target pool is created
     1 10 in the property tax relief fund.  The pool shall
     1 11 consist of the moneys credited to the pool by law.
     1 12    b.  For the purposes of this subsection:
     1 13    (1)  "Budget year" means the fiscal year for which
     1 14 moneys are appropriated by the general assembly for
     1 15 distribution to the counties meeting eligibility
     1 16 requirements under this subsection.
     1 17    (2)  "Ending balance percentage" means the amount
     1 18 of a county's mental health, mental retardation, and
     1 19 developmental disabilities services fund fiscal year
     1 20 ending balance under generally accepted accounting
     1 21 principles expressed as a percentage of the county's
     1 22 actual gross expenditures from the services fund for
     1 23 that fiscal year.
     1 24    (3)  "Five=year rolling average ending balance
     1 25 percentage" means the average of a county's ending
     1 26 balance percentages over the five fiscal years
     1 27 immediately preceding the budget year.
     1 28    b.  c.  A statewide per capita expenditure target
     1 29 amount is established.  The statewide per capita
     1 30 expenditure target amount shall be equal to the one=
     1 31 hundredth percentile of all county per capita
     1 32 expenditures in the fiscal year beginning July 1,
     1 33 1997, and ending June 30, 1998.
     1 34    c.  d.  Moneys available in the per capita
     1 35 expenditure pool for a fiscal year shall be
     1 36 distributed to those counties that meet all of the
     1 37 following eligibility requirements:
     1 38    (1)  The county is levying the maximum amount
     1 39 allowed for the county's mental health, mental
     1 40 retardation, and developmental disabilities services
     1 41 fund under section 331.424A.
     1 42    (2)  The county's per capita expenditure in the
     1 43 latest fiscal year for which the actual expenditure
     1 44 information is available is equal to or less than the
     1 45 statewide per capita expenditure target amount.
     1 46    (3)  (2)  In the fiscal year that commenced two
     1 47 years prior to the fiscal year of distribution, the
     1 48 county's mental health, mental retardation, and
     1 49 developmental disabilities services fund ending
     1 50 balance under generally accepted accounting principles
     2  1 was The county's five=year rolling average ending
     2  2 balance percentage as of the budget year is equal to
     2  3 or less than twenty=five percent of the county's
     2  4 actual gross expenditures for the fiscal year that
     2  5 commenced two years prior to the fiscal year of
     2  6 distribution.
     2  7    (4)  (3)  The county is in compliance with the
     2  8 filing date requirements under section 331.403.
     2  9    d.  e.  The distribution amount a county receives
     2 10 from the moneys available in the pool shall be
     2 11 determined based upon the county's proportion of the
     2 12 general population of the counties eligible to receive
     2 13 moneys from the pool for that fiscal year.  However, a
     2 14 county shall not receive moneys in excess of the
     2 15 amount which would cause the county's per capita
     2 16 expenditure to exceed the statewide per capita
     2 17 expenditure target.  Moneys credited to the per capita
     2 18 expenditure target pool which remain unobligated or
     2 19 unexpended at the close of a fiscal year shall remain
     2 20 in the pool for distribution in the succeeding fiscal
     2 21 year.
     2 22    e.  f.  The department of human services shall
     2 23 annually calculate the amount of moneys due to
     2 24 eligible counties in accordance with this subsection.
     2 25 The department shall authorize the issuance of
     2 26 warrants payable to the county treasurer for the
     2 27 amounts due and the warrants shall be issued in
     2 28 January.>
     2 29 #2.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     2 33 WHITAKER of Van Buren
     2 34 HF 2780.201 81
     2 35 jp/sh/3895

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