HOUSE FILE 2148

BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES

(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 548)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to county mental health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities services management plan requirements and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL RETARDATION, AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES MANAGEMENT PLAN —— STRATEGIC PLAN.  Notwithstanding section 331.439, subsection 1, paragraph “b”, subparagraph (3), counties are not required to submit a three-year strategic plan by April 1, 2012, to the department of human services. A county’s strategic plan in effect as of the effective date of this section shall remain in effect, subject to modification as necessary to conform with statutory changes affecting the plan.
    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
EXPLANATION
   This bill relates to county mental health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities services management plan requirements by providing that counties are not required to submit the three-year strategic plan by April 1, 2012, as specified in Code section 331.439(1)(b)(3). The initial strategic plan was required to be submitted on April 1, 2000, and then on April 1 every three years after that.
   The bill provides that the county’s strategic plan in effect as of the effective date of the bill remains in effect subject to modification as necessary to conform with statutory changes affecting the plan. Under current law, Code section 331.439 is repealed on July 1, 2013.
   The bill takes effect upon enactment.