House File 523 - Introduced



                                   HOUSE FILE       
                                   BY  HEATON, ALONS, WINDSCHITL,
                                       ARNOLD, RASMUSSEN, RAYHONS,
                                       STRUYK, VAN FOSSEN, BOAL,
                                       DEYOE, DRAKE, GRANZOW,
                                       S. OLSON, JACOBS, and KAUFMANN


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to mental health, mental retardation,
  2    developmental disabilities, and brain injury services by
  3    increasing the allowed growth appropriation made for
  4    distribution to counties for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
  5    2007.
  6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  7 TLSB 1472YH 82
  8 jp/es/88

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  1  1    Section 1.  2006 Iowa Acts, chapter 1185, section 1, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    SECTION 1.  COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL RETARDATION, AND
  1  4 DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ALLOWED GROWTH FACTOR ALLOCATIONS
  1  5 == FISCAL YEAR 2007=2008.
  1  6    1.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the
  1  7 state to the department of human services for the fiscal year
  1  8 beginning July 1, 2007, and ending June 30, 2008, the
  1  9 following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
  1 10 used for the purpose designated:
  1 11    For distribution to counties of the county mental health,
  1 12 mental retardation, and developmental disabilities allowed
  1 13 growth factor adjustment, as provided in this section in lieu
  1 14 of the provisions of section 331.438, subsection 2, and
  1 15 section 331.439, subsection 3, and chapter 426B:
  1 16 .................................................. $ 43,287,141
  1 17                                                      66,987,141
  1 18    2.  The funding appropriated in this section is the allowed
  1 19 growth factor adjustment for fiscal year 2007=2008, and is
  1 20 allocated as follows:
  1 21    a.  For distribution to counties for fiscal year 2007=2008
  1 22 in accordance with the formula in section 331.438, subsection
  1 23 2, paragraph "b":
  1 24 .................................................. $ 12,000,000
  1 25    b.  For deposit in the per capita expenditure target pool
  1 26 created in the property tax relief fund and for distribution
  1 27 in accordance with section 426B.5, subsection 1:
  1 28 .................................................. $ 24,360,548
  1 29                                                      50,060,548
  1 30    c.  For deposit in the risk pool created in the property
  1 31 tax relief fund and for distribution in accordance with
  1 32 section 426B.5, subsection 2:
  1 33 .................................................. $  2,000,000
  1 34                                                               0
  1 35    d.  For expansion of services to persons with transfer to
  2  1 the department of public health for the brain injury services
  2  2 program in accordance with the law enacted by the Eighty=first
  2  3 General Assembly, 2006 Session, as law providing for such
  2  4 expansion of services to commence in the fiscal year beginning
  2  5 July 1, 2006 section 135.22B:
  2  6 .................................................. $  4,926,593
  2  7    If 2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2772, is enacted by the
  2  8 Eighty=first General Assembly, 2006 Session, the allocation
  2  9 made in this lettered paragraph shall be transferred to the
  2 10 Iowa department of public health to be used for the brain
  2 11 injury services program created pursuant to that Act.
  2 12                           EXPLANATION
  2 13    This bill increases the appropriation made for county
  2 14 allowed growth for MH/MR/DD/BI services for fiscal year
  2 15 2007=2008.  In accordance with Code section 331.439, the
  2 16 allowed growth appropriation is made in the fiscal year two
  2 17 years prior to the fiscal year for which the appropriation is
  2 18 made.  The appropriation is increased from approximately $43.3
  2 19 million to approximately $67 million, with the increased
  2 20 amount allocated for the per capita expenditure target pool
  2 21 portion of the allowed growth distribution formula.  In
  2 22 addition, an allocation of the appropriation made for the risk
  2 23 pool is shifted to the per capita expenditure target pool.
  2 24 LSB 1472YH 82
  2 25 jp:rj/es/88