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 PAG LIN 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