Amend Senate File 209, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 21, after line 23 by inserting: 

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TAX RELIEF FUND
   Sec. ___.  Section 8.55, subsection 2, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   2.
  a.  The maximum balance of the fund is the amount equal to two and one-half percent of the adjusted revenue estimate for the fiscal year. If the amount of moneys in the Iowa economic emergency fund is equal to the maximum balance, moneys in excess of this amount shall be transferred to the general tax relief fund.
   b.  Notwithstanding paragraph “a”, any moneys in excess of the maximum balance in the economic emergency fund after the distribution of the surplus in the general fund of the state at the conclusion of each fiscal year shall not be transferred to the general tax relief fundof the state but shall be transferred to the senior living trust fund. The total amount appropriated, reverted, or transferred, in the aggregate, under this paragraph, section 8.57, subsection 2, and any other law providing for an appropriation or reversion or transfer of an appropriation to the credit of the senior living trust fund, for all fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2004, shall not exceed the amount specified in section 8.57, subsection 2, paragraph “c”.
   Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  8.57E  Tax relief fund.
   1.  The tax relief fund is created. The fund shall be separate from the general fund of the state and the balance in the fund shall not be considered part of the balance of the general fund of the state. The moneys credited to the fund are not subject to section 8.33 and shall not be transferred, used, obligated, appropriated, or otherwise encumbered except as provided in this section.
   2.  Moneys in the tax relief fund shall only be used as pursuant to appropriations made by the general assembly to reduce taxes.
   3.
  a.  Moneys in the fund may be used for cash flow purposes during a fiscal year provided that any moneys so allocated are returned to the fund by the end of that fiscal year.
   b.  Except as provided in section 8.58, the tax relief fund shall be considered a special account for the purposes of section 8.53 in determining the cash position of the general fund of the state for the payment of state obligations.
   4.  Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys deposited in the tax relief fund shall be credited to the fund.
   Sec. ___.  Section 8.58, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   8.58  Exemption from automatic application.
   1.  To the extent that moneys appropriated under section 8.57 do not result in moneys being credited to the general fund under section 8.55, subsection 2, moneys appropriated under section 8.57 and moneys contained in the cash reserve fund, rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund, environment first fund,and Iowa economic emergency fund, and tax relief fund shall not be considered in the application of any formula, index, or other statutory triggering mechanism which would affect appropriations, payments, or taxation rates, contrary provisions of the Code notwithstanding.
   2.  To the extent that moneys appropriated under section 8.57 do not result in moneys being credited to the general fund under section 8.55, subsection 2, moneys appropriated under section 8.57 and moneys contained in the cash reserve fund, rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund, environment first fund,and Iowa economic emergency fund, and tax relief fund shall not be considered by an arbitrator or in negotiations under chapter 20.
   Sec. ___.  TAX RELIEF FUND —— LEGISLATIVE INTENT.  It is the intent of the general assembly to enact appropriations from the tax relief fund created by this division of this Act pursuant to tax relief legislation which shall be proposed by the standing committees on ways and means of the senate and house of representatives.
   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE DATE AND APPLICABILITY.
   1.  This division of this Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
   2.  The amendment in this division to section 8.55, providing for transfer of moneys from the Iowa economic emergency fund to the tax relief fund instead of the general fund of the state applies to transfers made from the Iowa economic emergency fund after the effective date of this division and the state general fund expenditure limitation calculated for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, shall be adjusted accordingly.

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STATE EMPLOYEES —— REVENUE ESTIMATE
   Sec. ___.  GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUM COSTS FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
   1.  The state’s executive and judicial branch authorities responsible for negotiating the collective bargaining agreements entered into under chapter 20 shall engage in discussions with the applicable state employee organizations to renegotiate provisions involving health insurance coverage of state employees and their families in order to achieve cost savings for the state. The discussions shall include but are not limited to a requirement for a state employee who is covered by a collective bargaining agreement and is a member of state group health insurance plan for employees of the state established under chapter 509A to pay at least one hundred dollars per month of the total premium for such health plan coverage for single persons or increase the amount paid per month for family coverage by the same amount that would be paid for the single persons coverage.
   2.  If collective bargaining agreements are renegotiated to achieve cost savings pursuant to subsection 1, the cost savings provisions shall also apply to state employees who are not covered by collective bargaining as provided in chapter 20 and are members of a state group health insurance plan for employees of the state established under chapter 509A.
   3.  Beginning on the effective date of this section or March 1, 2011, whichever is earlier, a state legislator or legislative staff member who is a member of a state group health insurance plan for employees of the state established under chapter 509A shall pay at least one hundred dollars per month of the total premium for such health care coverage for single persons or increase the amount paid per month for family coverage by the same amount that would be paid for the single persons coverage. The payment amount shall be determined by the legislative council, subject to the minimum amount specified in this subsection.
   Sec. ___.  REVENUE ESTIMATING CONFERENCE MEETING.  Upon the request of the speaker of the house of representatives or the majority leader of the senate, the revenue estimating conference shall meet on a date in February or March 2011, as specified in the request. At this meeting, in addition to the estimates normally agreed to at the meetings of the conference, the conference shall also agree on estimates for fiscal year 2012-2013.
   Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  8A.440  Group health insurance premium costs.
   1.  Collective bargaining agreements entered into pursuant to chapter 20 for state employees shall provide that a state employee covered by that agreement who is a member of a state group health insurance plan for employees of the state established under chapter 509A shall pay at least one hundred dollars per month of the total premium for such insurance for single persons or increase the amount paid per month for family coverage by the same amount that would be paid for the single persons coverage.
   2.  A state employee not covered by a collective bargaining agreement as provided in chapter 20 who is a member of a state group health insurance plan for employees of the state established under chapter 509A shall pay the same amount per month of the total premium for such insurance as is paid under the collective bargaining agreement that covers the greatest number of state employees in the state government entity employing the state employee.
   Sec. ___.  APPLICABILITY.  The provision of this division of this Act enacting section 8A.440, applies to collective bargaining agreements entered into on or after the effective date of this division of this Act.
   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This division of this Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.

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NATURAL RESOURCES
   Sec. ___.  DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES —— REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION CURTAILED.
   1.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, for the period beginning on the effective date of this section through the close of the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2011, the department of natural resources shall not enter into a new arrangement to acquire or otherwise control real property.
   2.  For the purposes of this section, “new arrangement” means an obligation entered into on or after the effective date of this section. An obligation includes but is not limited to an agreement, contract, lease-purchase arrangement, or any other instrument leading to state ownership or control of real property that was not previously owned or controlled by the state. “New arrangement” does not include a real property acquisition or control project for which an appropriation to the department was encumbered prior to the effective date of this section. “New arrangement” does not include a donated real property acquisition or control project received or entered into on or after the effective date of this section.
   3.  This section, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
   Sec. ___.  2010 Iowa Acts, chapter 1191, section 20, is amended to read as follows:
   SEC. 13.
  IOWA RESOURCES ENHANCEMENT AND PROTECTION FUND.  Notwithstanding the amount of the standing appropriation from the general fund of the state to the Iowa resources enhancement and protection fund as provided in section 455A.18, there is appropriated from the environment first fund created in section 8.57A to the Iowa resources enhancement and protection fund, in lieu of the appropriation made in section 455A.18, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, and ending June 30, 2011, the following amount, to be allocated as provided in section 455A.19:
.................................................. $ 15,000,000

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   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This division of this Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.

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COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH

AND DISABILITY SERVICES
   Sec. ___.  COUNTY WAITING LISTS.
   1.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of human services for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, and ending June 30, 2011, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
   To be credited to the risk pool in the property tax relief fund created in chapter 426B and expended as provided in this section:
.................................................. $ 25,000,000
   2.  The amount appropriated in this section is appropriated from the risk pool to the department of human services for distribution as provided in this section. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes designated until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.
   3.
  a.  For the purposes of this section, “services fund” means a county’s mental health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities services fund created in section 331.424A.
   b.  The risk pool board shall implement a process for distribution of the amount appropriated in this section to counties to be used to provide eligibility for services and other support payable from the counties’ services funds for persons who are eligible under county management plans in effect as of December 31, 2010, but due to insufficient funding are on a waiting list for the services and other support. The period addressed by the funding appropriated in this section begins on or after the effective date of this section and ends June 30, 2012. Of the amount appropriated in this section, up to $5,000,000 shall be targeted to expand medical assistance program waiver slots for those waivers for which counties pay the nonfederal share of the costs. The distribution allocations shall be completed on or before July 1, 2011.
   c.  The general assembly finds that as of the time of enactment of this section, the funding appropriated in this section is sufficient to eliminate the need for continuing , instituting, or reinstituting waiting lists during the period addressed by the appropriation. However, the process implemented by the risk pool board shall ensure there is adequate funding so that a person made eligible for services and other support from the waiting list would not be required to return to the waiting list if a later projection indicates the funding is insufficient to cover for the entire period all individuals removed from the waiting list pursuant to this section.
   d.  The funding provided in this section is intended to provide necessary services for adults in need of mental health, mental retardation, or developmental disabilities services until improvements to the current system can be developed and enacted.
   Sec. ___.  ADULT MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICE SYSTEM REFORM.
   1.  The general assembly finds there is need to reform the adult mental health and disability services system administered by counties to address the needs of persons with mental illness, mental retardation, or developmental disabilities. Issues with the current system include the following:
   a.  Lack of a set of core services uniformly available throughout the state.
   b.  Lack of uniformity in service expenditures throughout the state.
   c.  Disparity in county levy rates for the services funds for this system.
   d.  The need to improve the array of community-based services and services to avoid the use or continued use of crisis services.
   e.  The need to expand the availability of dual diagnosis mental health and substance abuse services.
   f.  The need to improve the consistency of services available to both youth and adult populations.
   g.  The need to address the medical assistance (Medicaid) program changes in the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that will greatly expand the program’s eligibility for persons in the service system beginning in calendar year 2014.
   h.  Dissatisfaction with using county of legal settlement determinations to determine county and state financial responsibility for services.
   2.  In order to address the issues identified in subsection 1, the committees on human resources, appropriations, and ways and means of the senate and house of representatives shall propose legislation to address the following actions by the dates indicated:
   a.  Phase-in of the state fully assuming the nonfederal share of the costs for Medicaid program services now borne by counties by the implementation date of the Medicaid eligibility changes under PPACA.
   b.  Provide property tax relief and equity by having the state assume a greater role in funding the adult mental health and disability services system from counties by July 1, 2012, when the repeals contained in this division of this Act take effect.
   c.  Shift the balance of responsibilities for the services system between the state and counties so that the state ensures greater uniformity and there is sufficient size to develop effective services while maintaining the county role of bringing local resources together in unique ways that best meet the needs of clients, by implementing a new services system structure by July 1, 2012, when the repeals contained in this division of this Act take effect.
   Sec. ___.  Section 331.424A, Code 2011, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  6.  This section is repealed July 1, 2012.
   Sec. ___.  Section 331.438, Code 2011, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  5.  This section is repealed July 1, 2012.
   Sec. ___.  Section 331.439, Code 2011, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  10.  This section is repealed July 1, 2012.
   Sec. ___.  Section 331.440, Code 2011, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  7.  This section is repealed July 1, 2012.
   Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  426B.6  Future repeal.
   This chapter is repealed July 1, 2012.
   Sec. ___.  2010 Iowa Acts, chapter 1193, section 1, is amended to read as follows:
   SECTION 1.
  ADULT MH/MR/DD SERVICES ALLOWED GROWTH FUNDING —— FY 2011-2012.  Notwithstanding section 331.439, subsection 3, the allowed growth factor adjustment for county mental health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities service expenditures for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, shall be established by statute which shall be enacted within thirty calendar days of the convening of the Eighty-fourth General Assembly, 2011 Session, on January 10, 2011 date the governor’s recommendation is submitted to the general assembly. The governor shall submit to the general assembly a recommendation for such allowed growth factor adjustment and the amounts of related appropriations to the general assembly on or before January 11 27, 2011.  The governor’s recommendation and the allowed growth factor adjustment enacted by the general assembly pursuant to this section shall incorporate measures to ensure that the funding appropriated during the 2011 legislative session to the risk pool in the property tax relief fund to eliminate county waiting lists for services can be relied upon to remain available for the long term to support the services provided for the individuals who were removed from a waiting list.
   Sec. ___.  CONFORMING PROVISIONS.  The legislative services agency shall prepare a study bill for consideration by the committees on human resources of the senate and house of representatives for the 2012 legislative session, providing conforming Code changes for implementation of the repeal provisions contained in this division of this Act.
   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This division of this Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
   Sec. ___.  RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.  The provision of this division of this Act amending 2010 Iowa Acts, chapter 1193, section 1, applies retroactively to April 29, 2010.>

   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

RAECKER of Polk, Chairperson