House File 471 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY ABDUL=SAMAD, SWAIM, GAYMAN,
                                          WINCKLER, BERRY, H. MILLER,
                                          FORD, and WESSEL=KROESCHELL


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to pilot projects for culturally competent
  2    substance abuse treatment and providing an appropriation.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2318HH 82
  5 jp/es/88

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  1  1    Section 1.  CULTURALLY COMPETENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT
  1  2 PILOT PROJECTS.
  1  3    1.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the
  1  4 state to the department of public health for the fiscal year
  1  5 beginning July 1, 2007, and ending June 30, 2008, the
  1  6 following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
  1  7 used for the purposes designated:
  1  8    For implementation of pilot projects in accordance with
  1  9 this section:
  1 10 .................................................. $    450,000
  1 11    2.  The department shall utilize the amount appropriated in
  1 12 this section to contract for at least three pilot projects to
  1 13 provide culturally competent substance abuse treatment in
  1 14 various areas of the state.  Each pilot project shall target a
  1 15 particular ethnic minority population.  The populations
  1 16 targeted shall include but are not limited to
  1 17 African=American, Asian, and Latino.
  1 18    3.  The pilot project requirements shall provide for
  1 19 documentation or other means to ensure access to the cultural
  1 20 competence approach used by a pilot project so that such
  1 21 approach can be replicated and improved upon in successor
  1 22 programs.
  1 23                           EXPLANATION
  1 24    This bill relates to pilot projects for culturally
  1 25 competent substance abuse treatment by providing an
  1 26 appropriation to the department of public health to contract
  1 27 for at least three projects.
  1 28    The ethnic populations addressed must include
  1 29 African=American, Asian, and Latino.  The pilot project
  1 30 provisions are required to provide for documentation or other
  1 31 means to ensure that the cultural competence approach used by
  1 32 the pilot project can be replicated and improved upon in
  1 33 successor programs.
  1 34 LSB 2318HH 82
  1 35 jp:sc/es/88