SENATE FILE 2051

BY  BOLKCOM

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the department on aging and making appropriations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  2011 Iowa Acts, chapter 129, section 113, is amended to read as follows:
   SEC. 113.
  DEPARTMENT ON AGING.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department on aging for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012, and ending June 30, 2013, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
   For aging programs for the department on aging and area agencies on aging to provide citizens of Iowa who are 60 years of age and older with case management for frail elders, Iowa’s aging and disabilities resource center, and other services which may include but are not limited to adult day services, respite care, chore services, information and assistance, and material aid, for information and options counseling for persons with disabilities who are 18 years of age or older, and for salaries, support, administration, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions:
.................................................. $  5,151,288
_____________________________________________________29,942,577
............................................... FTEs      35.00
   1.  Funds appropriated in this section may be used to supplement federal funds under federal regulations. To receive funds appropriated in this section, a local area agency on aging shall match the funds with moneys from other sources according to rules adopted by the department. Funds appropriated in this section may be used for elderly services not specifically enumerated in this section only if approved by an area agency on aging for provision of the service within the area.
   2.  The amount appropriated in this section includes additional funding of $225,000
 
$450,000 for delivery of long-term care services to seniors with low or moderate incomes.
   3.  Of the funds appropriated in this section, $89,973
 
$179,946 shall be transferred to the department of economic development for the Iowa commission on volunteer services to be used for the retired and senior volunteer program.
   3A.  In addition to any other funding appropriated or allocated for the following purposes, $19,640,000 of the funds appropriated in this section shall be allocated as follows:
   a.  To provide home and community-based services to reduce and slow the growth of long-term care expenditures and to meet the mandate of the Olmstead decision .................................................. $ 11,850,000
   b.  For the statewide aging and disabilities resource center.................................................. $  2,500,000
   c.  For elder abuse intervention and protection services.................................................. $  2,600,000
   d.  To support the reduction in area agencies on aging as required pursuant to 2011 Iowa Acts, chapter 122, section 20.................................................. $    390,000
   e.  To address the unmet needs of seniors as identified in the department’s most recent unmet needs report compiled from data submitted by the case management program for frail elders.................................................. $  2,300,000
   4.
  a.  The department on aging shall establish and enforce procedures relating to expenditure of state and federal funds by area agencies on aging that require compliance with both state and federal laws, rules, and regulations, including but not limited to all of the following:
   (1)  Requiring that expenditures are incurred only for goods or services received or performed prior to the end of the fiscal period designated for use of the funds.
   (2)  Prohibiting prepayment for goods or services not received or performed prior to the end of the fiscal period designated for use of the funds.
   (3)  Prohibiting the prepayment for goods or services not defined specifically by good or service, time period, or recipient.
   (4)  Prohibiting the establishment of accounts from which future goods or services which are not defined specifically by good or service, time period, or recipient, may be purchased.
   b.  The procedures shall provide that if any funds are expended in a manner that is not in compliance with the procedures and applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations, and are subsequently subject to repayment, the area agency on aging expending such funds in contravention of such procedures, laws, rules and regulations, not the state, shall be liable for such repayment.
EXPLANATION
   This bill amends the FY 2012-2013 appropriations and allocations to the Iowa department on aging. The bill amends the appropriation to provide for funding at the FY 2011-2012 level and includes an additional appropriation of $19,640,000. The bill provides that in addition to any other funding appropriated or allocated for the purposes specified, $19,640,000 of the funds appropriated under the bill are to be allocated as follows: $11,850,000 shall be used to provide home and community-based services to reduce and slow the growth of long-term care expenditures and to meet the mandate of the Olmstead decision; $2,500,000 shall be used for the statewide aging and disabilities resource center; $2,600,000 shall be used for elder abuse intervention and protection services; $390,000 shall be used to support the reduction in area agencies on aging as required pursuant to 2011 Iowa Acts, chapter 122, section 20; and $2,300,000 shall be used to address the unmet needs of seniors as identified in the department’s most recent unmet needs report.