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 PAG LIN 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