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

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  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