H-1175

   Amend Senate File 275, as passed by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  By striking page 1, line 1, through page 8, line 6, and inserting: 
   Section 1.  Section 135A.2, subsections 2, 11, 14, and 16, Code 2015, are amended by striking the subsections.
   Sec. ___.  Section 135A.2, subsection 8, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   8.  “Designated local public health agency” means an entity that is either governed by or contractually responsible to a local board of health and designated by the local board to comply with the Iowa public health standards for a jurisdiction.
   Sec. ___.  Section 135A.3, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   135A.3  Governmental public health system modernization —— lead agency.
   1.  The department is designated as the lead agency in this state to administer this chapter.
   2.  The department, in collaboration with the governmental public health advisory council and the governmental public health evaluation committee, shall coordinate implementation of this chapter including but not limited to the voluntary accreditation of designated local public health agencies and the department in accordance with the Iowa public health standards. Such implementation administration shall include evaluation of and quality improvement measures for the governmental public health system.
   Sec. ___.  Section 135A.4, subsection 6, paragraph b, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  Propose to the director public health standards that should may be utilized for voluntary accreditation of designated local public health agencies and the department that include but are not limited to the organizational capacity and by the governmental public health service components described in section 135A.6, subsection 1, by October 1, 2009 system.
   Sec. ___.  Section 135A.4, subsection 6, paragraphs c, d, and e, Code 2015, are amended by striking the paragraphs.
   Sec. ___.  Section 135A.5, subsection 1, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A governmental public health evaluation committee is established to develop and implement the evaluation of the governmental public health system and voluntary accreditation program. The committee shall meet at least quarterly. The committee shall consist of no fewer than eleven members and no more than thirteen members. The members shall be appointed by the director of the department. The director may solicit and consider recommendations from professional organizations, associations, and academic institutions in making appointments to the committee.
   Sec. ___.  Section 135A.5, subsection 6, paragraphs a and b, Code 2015, are amended to read as follows:
   a.  Develop and implement processes for evaluation of the governmental public health system and the voluntary accreditation program.
   b.  Collect and report baseline information for organizational capacity and public health service delivery based on the Iowa public health standards prior to implementation of the voluntary accreditation program on January 2, 2012.
   Sec. ___.  Section 135A.5, subsection 6, paragraphs c and d, Code 2015, are amended by striking the paragraphs.
   Sec. ___.  Section 135A.6, subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:

   The governmental public health system, in accordance with the Iowa public health standards, shall include but not be limited to the following organizational capacity components and public health service components:
   Sec. ___.  Section 135A.8, subsections 2 and 3, Code 2015, are amended to read as follows:
   2.  The fund is established to assist local boards of health and the department with the provision of governmental public health system organizational capacity and public health service delivery and to achieve and maintain voluntary accreditation in accordance with the Iowa public health standards. At least seventy percent of the funds shall be made available to local boards of health and up to thirty percent of the funds may be utilized by the department.
   3.  Moneys in the fund may be allocated by the department to a local board of health for organizational capacity and service delivery. Such allocation may be made on a matching, dollar-for-dollar basis for the acquisition of equipment, or by providing grants to achieve and maintain voluntary accreditation in accordance with the Iowa public health standards.
   Sec. ___.  Section 135A.9, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   135A.9  Rules.

   The state board of health shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to implement this chapter which shall include but are not limited to the following:

   1.  Incorporation of the Iowa public health standards recommended to the department pursuant to section 135A.4, subsection 6.
   2.  A voluntary accreditation process to begin no later than January 2, 2012, for designated local public health agencies and the department.
   3.  1.  Rules relating to the operation of the governmental public health advisory council.
   4.  2.  Rules relating to the operation of the governmental public health system evaluation committee.
   5.  3.  The application and award process for governmental public health system fund moneys.
   6.  Rules relating to data collection for the governmental public health system and the voluntary accreditation program.
   7.  4.  Rules otherwise necessary to implement the chapter.>
   2.  Page 9, after line 32 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  REPEAL.  Sections 135A.7 and 135A.10, Code 2015, are repealed.
   Sec. ___.  RESIDENTIAL SWIMMING POOLS —— PRIVATE SWIMMING LESSONS.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the department of public health shall require that a residential swimming pool used for private swimming lessons for up to two hundred seven hours in a calendar month, or the number of hours prescribed by local ordinance applicable to such use of a residential swimming pool, whichever is greater, be regulated as a residential swimming pool used for commercial purposes pursuant to chapter 135I. The department of public health may adopt rules to implement this section.
   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  The following provision of this Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment:
   1.  The section of this Act relating to residential swimming pools.>
   3.  Title page, line 2, after <health> by inserting <and including effective date provisions>
   4.  By renumbering as necessary.

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COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES

L. MILLER of Scott, Chairperson