Senate File 72 - Introduced
SENATE FILE
BY KETTERING
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 allowed growth funding and providing
4 effective and retroactive applicability dates.
5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 1 Section 1. STATE PAYMENT TO ELIGIBLE COUNTIES.
1 2 1. For the purposes of this section, "services fund" means
1 3 a county's mental health, mental retardation, and
1 4 developmental disabilities services fund created under section
1 5 331.424A.
1 6 2. If a county failed to levy the maximum dollar amount
1 7 allowed for the county's services fund for the fiscal year
1 8 beginning July 1, 2006, the county shall qualify for the per
1 9 capita expenditure target pool allowed growth payment under
1 10 section 426B.5, subsection 1, made in that fiscal year
1 11 provided all of the following conditions are met:
1 12 a. The county has an unobligated and unexpended balance in
1 13 the general fund of the county under section 331.427 in an
1 14 amount equal to the difference between the actual dollar
1 15 amount the county levied for the county's services fund for
1 16 the fiscal year and the maximum dollar amount allowed to be
1 17 levied for the county's services fund for the fiscal year.
1 18 b. The county makes a one=time permanent transfer from the
1 19 general fund of the county to the county's services fund in
1 20 the amount identified under paragraph "a". The county is
1 21 authorized to make the transfer described in this paragraph
1 22 notwithstanding section 331.424A or any other provision of law
1 23 to the contrary.
1 24 c. The county auditor certifies to the department of human
1 25 services that the one=time permanent transfer from the general
1 26 fund of the county has been made in the specified amount to
1 27 the county's services fund and that the conditions of this
1 28 subsection have been met.
1 29 3. Upon receiving the certification required under
1 30 subsection 2, the county shall be deemed to have met the
1 31 requirement under section 426B.5, subsection 1, paragraph "c",
1 32 subparagraph (1), to be levying the maximum amount allowed for
1 33 the county's services fund for the fiscal year beginning July
1 34 1, 2006, and the department of human services shall authorize
1 35 adjustment of the allowed growth payment to the county
2 1 accordingly, subject to any other adjustments required under
2 2 2005 Iowa Acts, chapter 179, section 1, as amended by 2006
2 3 Iowa Acts, chapter 1184, section 73.
2 4 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of
2 5 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment and applies
2 6 retroactively to July 1, 2006.
2 7 EXPLANATION
2 8 This bill provides for county eligibility for state payment
2 9 of certain mental health, mental retardation, and
2 10 developmental disabilities services (MH/MR/DD) allowed growth
2 11 funding. The eligibility provisions for a county to qualify
2 12 for allowed growth payment from the per capita expenditure
2 13 pool for a fiscal year requires a county to be levying for
2 14 that year the maximum amount allowed for the county's MH/MR/DD
2 15 services fund. The bill provides a set of conditions that can
2 16 be applied by a county that failed to meet the maximum levy
2 17 requirement for fiscal year 2006=2007 in order to be deemed to
2 18 have met the requirement for that fiscal year.
2 19 The conditions require the county to have in the county
2 20 general fund an unexpended and unobligated amount equal to the
2 21 difference between the dollar amount of the services fund
2 22 maximum levy and the services fund actual levy for the fiscal
2 23 year. The county must permanently transfer that amount from
2 24 the county's general fund to the county's services fund.
2 25 Finally, the county auditor must certify to the department of
2 26 human services that the transfer was made.
2 27 Upon receiving the required certification, the county is
2 28 deemed to have met the maximum levy requirement for funding
2 29 from the per capita expenditure pool and the department is
2 30 required to adjust the county's allowed growth payment
2 31 accordingly. Any other adjustments to the county's allowed
2 32 growth payment required under session law enacted in 2005 and
2 33 2006 remain applicable. These requirements provide for
2 34 withholding certain portions of a county's MH/MR/DD allowed
2 35 growth payments depending upon the relative size of the
3 1 county's services fund ending balance at the close of the
3 2 preceding fiscal year.
3 3 The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively
3 4 applicable to July 1, 2006.
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