House File 335
HOUSE FILE
BY HEATON
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to state and local funding for the costs of
2 providing educational services to children residing in
3 psychiatric medical institutions for children and mental
4 health institutes operated by the state, and providing
5 effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 282.27, Code 2003, is amended to read
1 2 as follows:
1 3 282.27 CHILDREN LIVING IN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS OR
1 4 INSTITUTIONS == PAYMENT.
1 5 1. The public school district in which is located a
1 6 psychiatric unit of a hospital licensed under chapter 135B or
1 7 a psychiatric medical institution for children licensed under
1 8 chapter 135H, which is not operated by the state, shall be
1 9 responsible for the provision of educational services to
1 10 children residing in the unit or institution. Children
1 11 residing in the unit or institution shall be included in the
1 12 basic enrollment of their districts of residence, as defined
1 13 in section 282.31, subsection 4.
1 14 The board of directors of each district of residence shall
1 15 pay to the school district in which is located such
1 16 psychiatric unit or institution, for the provision of
1 17 educational services to the child, a portion of the district
1 18 of residence's district cost per pupil for each of such
1 19 children based upon the proportion that the time each child is
1 20 provided educational services while in such unit or
1 21 institution is to the total time for which the child is
1 22 provided educational services during a normal school year.
1 23 2. a. The department of human services shall provide
1 24 educational services to children residing in a psychiatric
1 25 medical institution for children licensed under chapter 135H
1 26 and operated by the state and to children residing in a mental
1 27 health institute under the jurisdiction of the director of
1 28 human services in accordance with section 218.1, subsections 3
1 29 and 5. However, for the budget year beginning July 1, 2002,
1 30 and for each succeeding budget year, the children residing in
1 31 the institutions shall be included in the basic enrollment of
1 32 their districts of residence, as defined in section 282.31,
1 33 subsection 4.
1 34 b. The board of directors of each district of residence
1 35 shall pay to the psychiatric medical institution for children
2 1 or the mental health institute providing educational services
2 2 to a child included in the basic enrollment of the district,
2 3 in accordance with paragraph "a", a portion of the district of
2 4 residence's district cost per pupil for each of such children
2 5 based upon the proportion that the time each child is provided
2 6 educational services while residing in the institution or
2 7 institute is to the total time for which the child is provided
2 8 educational services during the normal school year.
2 9 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE AND RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.
2 10 This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect
2 11 upon enactment and applies retroactively to the school budget
2 12 year beginning July 1, 2002.
2 13 EXPLANATION
2 14 This bill requires that children who reside in the Toledo
2 15 and Eldora psychiatric medical institutions for children and
2 16 children who reside in the Cherokee and Independence mental
2 17 health institutes, for the budget year beginning July 1, 2002,
2 18 and for each succeeding budget year, be included in the basic
2 19 enrollment of their school districts of residence.
2 20 Under the bill, the board of directors of each school
2 21 district of residence must pay the institution or institute
2 22 providing educational services to a child included in the
2 23 district's basic enrollment, who receives educational services
2 24 from the institution or institute, a portion of the district
2 25 of residence's district cost per pupil for the child based
2 26 upon the proportion that the time the child is provided
2 27 educational services while residing in the institution or
2 28 institute is to the total time for which the child is provided
2 29 educational services during the normal school year.
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