Senate File 2029 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  SCHOENJAHN

                                       (COMPANION TO LSB 5553HH
                                        BY THOMAS)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  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 5553SS 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, paragraph "a",
  1  3 a county that accurately reported the county's expenditures
  1  4 for mental health, mental retardation, and developmental
  1  5 disabilities services for the previous fiscal year on the
  1  6 forms prescribed by the department of human services, and the
  1  7 report was received after December 1, 2007, and on or before
  1  8 March 15, 2008, shall be eligible for state payment, as
  1  9 defined in section 331.438, in accordance with section 331.439
  1 10 and other law providing for the state payment in the fiscal
  1 11 year beginning July 1, 2007.
  1 12    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 13 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment and applies
  1 14 retroactively to December 1, 2007.
  1 15                           EXPLANATION
  1 16    This bill provides for county eligibility for state payment
  1 17 of certain mental health, mental retardation, and
  1 18 developmental disabilities services (MH/MR/DD) allowed growth
  1 19 and property tax relief funding.
  1 20    The bill provides for county eligibility for state payment
  1 21 of both MH/MR/DD property tax relief moneys and allowed growth
  1 22 funding.
  1 23    Under current law, in order to be eligible to receive the
  1 24 funding, a county must accurately report the county's
  1 25 expenditures for such services for the previous fiscal year on
  1 26 the forms prescribed by the department of human services by
  1 27 December 1.  The bill provides that a county is also eligible
  1 28 if the report was received after December 1, 2007, and on or
  1 29 before March 15, 2008.
  1 30    The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively
  1 31 applicable to December 1, 2007.
  1 32 LSB 5553SS 82
  1 33 jp/rj/14