House File 2021 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  HEDDENS


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the costs of services provided to persons with
  2    mental retardation whose service costs are a state
  3    responsibility.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 5163HH 81
  6 jp/je/5

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 249A.12, Code Supplement 2005, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  8.  If a person with mental retardation
  1  4 has no legal settlement or the legal settlement is unknown so
  1  5 that the person is deemed to be a state case and the services
  1  6 associated with the mental retardation can be covered under a
  1  7 medical assistance program home and community=based services
  1  8 waiver or other medical assistance program provision, the
  1  9 department may transfer moneys to cover the nonfederal share
  1 10 of the medical assistance program costs from an appropriation
  1 11 made for state cases in a particular fiscal year to an
  1 12 appropriation made for the medical assistance program in that
  1 13 same fiscal year.  The department shall act expeditiously to
  1 14 obtain federal approval for additional waiver slots to cover
  1 15 such state cases beginning at the earliest possible time in
  1 16 the fiscal year, if such approval is necessary.
  1 17                           EXPLANATION
  1 18    This bill relates to the costs of services provided to
  1 19 persons with mental retardation whose service costs are a
  1 20 state responsibility.
  1 21    Code section 249A.12, relating to medical assistance
  1 22 program benefits paid on behalf of persons with mental
  1 23 retardation, is amended.  The bill provides that if a person
  1 24 with mental retardation has no legal settlement or the legal
  1 25 settlement is unknown so that the person is deemed to be a
  1 26 state case and the services associated with the mental
  1 27 retardation can be covered under a medical assistance program
  1 28 home and community=based services waiver or other medical
  1 29 assistance program provision, the department of human services
  1 30 may transfer moneys to cover the nonfederal share of the
  1 31 medical assistance program costs from the appropriation made
  1 32 for state cases to the appropriation made for the medical
  1 33 assistance program.
  1 34    The department is required to act expeditiously to obtain
  1 35 federal approval for additional waiver slots to cover such
  2  1 state cases beginning at the earliest possible time in the
  2  2 fiscal year, if such approval is necessary.
  2  3 LSB 5163HH 81
  2  4 jp:nh/je/5