House File 2580 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY WHITAKER
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to distribution of mental health, mental
2 retardation, and developmental disabilities allowed growth
3 funding to counties.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 426B.5, subsection 1, Code Supplement
1 2 2005, is amended to read as follows:
1 3 1. PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE TARGET POOL.
1 4 a. A per capita expenditure target pool is created in the
1 5 property tax relief fund. The pool shall consist of the
1 6 moneys credited to the pool by law.
1 7 b. For the purposes of this subsection:
1 8 (1) "Budget year" means the fiscal year for which moneys
1 9 are appropriated by the general assembly for distribution to
1 10 the counties meeting eligibility requirements under this
1 11 subsection.
1 12 (2) "Ending balance percentage" means the amount of a
1 13 county's mental health, mental retardation, and developmental
1 14 disabilities services fund fiscal year ending balance under
1 15 generally accepted accounting principles expressed as a
1 16 percentage of the county's actual gross expenditures from the
1 17 services fund for that fiscal year.
1 18 (3) "Five=year rolling average ending balance percentage"
1 19 means the average of a county's ending balance percentages
1 20 over the five fiscal years immediately preceding the budget
1 21 year.
1 22 b. c. A statewide per capita expenditure target amount is
1 23 established. The statewide per capita expenditure target
1 24 amount shall be equal to the one=hundredth percentile of all
1 25 county per capita expenditures in the fiscal year beginning
1 26 July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, 1998.
1 27 c. d. Moneys available in the per capita expenditure pool
1 28 for a fiscal year shall be distributed to those counties that
1 29 meet all of the following eligibility requirements:
1 30 (1) The county is levying the maximum amount allowed for
1 31 the county's mental health, mental retardation, and
1 32 developmental disabilities services fund under section
1 33 331.424A.
1 34 (2) The county's per capita expenditure in the latest
1 35 fiscal year for which the actual expenditure information is
2 1 available is equal to or less than the statewide per capita
2 2 expenditure target amount.
2 3 (3) (2) In the fiscal year that commenced two years prior
2 4 to the fiscal year of distribution, the county's mental
2 5 health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities
2 6 services fund ending balance under generally accepted
2 7 accounting principles was The county's five=year rolling
2 8 average ending balance percentage as of the budget year is
2 9 equal to or less than twenty=five thirty percent of the
2 10 county's actual gross expenditures for the fiscal year that
2 11 commenced two years prior to the fiscal year of distribution.
2 12 (4) (3) The county is in compliance with the filing date
2 13 requirements under section 331.403.
2 14 d. e. The distribution amount a county receives from the
2 15 moneys available in the pool shall be determined based upon
2 16 the county's proportion of the general population of the
2 17 counties eligible to receive moneys from the pool for that
2 18 fiscal year. However, a county shall not receive moneys in
2 19 excess of the amount which would cause the county's per capita
2 20 expenditure to exceed the statewide per capita expenditure
2 21 target. Moneys credited to the per capita expenditure target
2 22 pool which remain unobligated or unexpended at the close of a
2 23 fiscal year shall remain in the pool for distribution in the
2 24 succeeding fiscal year.
2 25 e. f. The department of human services shall annually
2 26 calculate the amount of moneys due to eligible counties in
2 27 accordance with this subsection. The department shall
2 28 authorize the issuance of warrants payable to the county
2 29 treasurer for the amounts due and the warrants shall be issued
2 30 in January.
2 31 EXPLANATION
2 32 This bill relates to the formula for distribution of mental
2 33 health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities
2 34 (MH/MR/DD) allowed growth funding to counties from the per
2 35 capita expenditure target pool.
3 1 The bill revises the eligibility provisions for the pool.
3 2 The requirement for a county to levy the maximum authorized
3 3 for the county's MH/MR/DD services fund is eliminated. The
3 4 bill amends the provision requiring the ending balance of the
3 5 county's MH/MR/DD services fund in the most recently available
3 6 fiscal year to have been equal to or less than 25 percent of
3 7 the county's gross expenditures from the services fund in that
3 8 year by increasing the percentage amount to 30 percent. In
3 9 addition, instead of applying to a single fiscal year, the
3 10 percentage requirement is applied based upon a five=year
3 11 rolling average.
3 12 Finally, the bill eliminates a distribution limitation that
3 13 prohibits an eligible county from receiving moneys from the
3 14 per capita expenditure target pool in an amount that would
3 15 cause the county's per capita expenditures to exceed the
3 16 statewide expenditure target. Under current law, the
3 17 statewide expenditure target amount is equal to the 100th
3 18 percentile of all county per capita expenditures in the fiscal
3 19 year beginning July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, 1998.
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