S-3379

   Amend House File 653, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 151, after line 20 by inserting: 
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LEGISLATIVE INTERIM —— DEPARTMENTAL STAKEHOLDER WORKGROUP —— FACILITY FOR ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS WITH AGGRESSIVE, COMBATIVE OR PSYCHIATRIC BEHAVIORS
   Sec. ___.  LEGISLATIVE INTERIM —— DEPARTMENTAL STAKEHOLDER WORKGROUP —— FACILITY FOR ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS WITH AGGRESSIVE, COMBATIVE, OR PSYCHIATRIC BEHAVIORS.
   1.  The legislative council is requested to establish an interim study committee for the 2017 interim to examine options for designating or establishing a facility to provide care for elderly individuals who are sexually aggressive, combative, or have unmet geropsychiatric needs. The interim study committee shall meet to receive and review the report of the stakeholder workgroup established pursuant to subsection 2, and the interim study committee shall submit its report, including findings and recommendations, to the governor and the general assembly by December 15, 2017.

   2.  a.  The department of inspections and appeals, in cooperation with the department of human services, shall establish and facilitate a stakeholder workgroup to examine options for designating or establishing a facility to provide care for elderly individuals in this state who are sexually aggressive, combative, or have unmet geropsychiatric needs.
   b.  The membership of the stakeholder workgroup shall include but is not limited to representatives of all of the following:
   (1)  The departments of inspections and appeals, human services, corrections, and public health, the department on aging, the state public defender, the office of ombudsman, the office of long-term care ombudsman, and the judicial branch.
   (2)  Consumers of services provided by long-term care facilities and family members of consumers.
   (3)  Leadingage Iowa, the Iowa health care association, and the Iowa association of community providers.
   (4)  Direct care workers providing care in long-term care facilities.
   (5)  Iowa legal aid.
   (6)  AARP Iowa chapter.
   (7)  The Iowa civil liberties union.
   (8)  Other stakeholders with interest or expertise in the subject as deemed appropriate by the department of inspections and appeals and the department of human services.
   c.  The stakeholder workgroup shall consider options for designating or establishing a facility as specified in this subsection and shall consider whether a long-term care facility should have the ability to refuse admission to or discharge from a facility, individuals who are sexually aggressive, combative, or have unmet geropsychiatric needs. The workgroup shall identify the characteristics of individuals who are sexually aggressive, combative, or have unmet geropsychiatric needs; review workforce needs, recruitment, training, and compensation necessary to maintain such a facility; review requirements to receive Medicaid reimbursement for such a facility; provide cost projections associated with any recommendations made; and review any other relevant issues.
   d.  The stakeholder workgroup shall provide a report to the interim study committee created pursuant to subsection 1 no later than October 31, 2017, detailing its findings and recommendations for further review by the interim study committee.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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RITA HART