House File 2098 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2057) (COMPANION TO LSB 5553SV BY COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES) Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act providing for county eligibility for state payment of 2 certain mental health, mental retardation, and developmental 3 disabilities services funding and providing effective and 4 retroactive applicability dates. 5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 6 TLSB 5553HV 82 7 jp/rj/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. STATE PAYMENT TO ELIGIBLE COUNTIES. 1 2 Notwithstanding section 331.439, subsection 1, paragraphs "a" 1 3 and "b", a county that accurately reported the county's 1 4 expenditures for mental health, mental retardation, and 1 5 developmental disabilities services for the previous fiscal 1 6 year on the forms prescribed by the department of human 1 7 services, and the annual management plan review and the report 1 8 and review were received after December 1, 2007, and on or 1 9 before March 15, 2008, shall be eligible for state payment, as 1 10 defined in section 331.438, in accordance with section 331.439 1 11 and other law providing for the state payment in the fiscal 1 12 year beginning July 1, 2007. 1 13 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of 1 14 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment and applies 1 15 retroactively to December 1, 2007. 1 16 EXPLANATION 1 17 This bill provides for county eligibility for state payment 1 18 of certain mental health, mental retardation, and 1 19 developmental disabilities services (MH/MR/DD) allowed growth 1 20 and property tax relief funding. 1 21 Under current law, in order to be eligible to receive the 1 22 funding, a county must accurately report the county's 1 23 expenditures for such services for the previous fiscal year on 1 24 the forms prescribed by the department of human services and 1 25 submit an annual review of the county's management plan for 1 26 such services, and both must be submitted by December 1. The 1 27 bill provides that a county is also eligible if the report was 1 28 received after December 1, 2007, and on or before March 15, 1 29 2008. 1 30 The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively 1 31 applicable to December 1, 2007. 1 32 LSB 5553HV 82 1 33 jp/rj/14