HSB 632 (LSB 6125YC (2) 85)

HOUSE FILE _____

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES BILL BY CHAIRPERSON MILLER)

A BILL FOR

An Act extending the duration of county mental health and disabilities services fund per capita levy and equalization provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 331.424A, subsection 7, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2014, is amended to read as follows:

   Notwithstanding subsection 5, for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2013, and July 1, 2014, and July 1, 2015, county revenues from taxes levied by the county and credited to the county services fund shall not exceed the lower of the following amounts:
    Sec. 2.  Section 426B.3, subsections 1 and 4, Code 2014, are amended to read as follows:
   1.  For the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2013, and July 1, 2014, and July 1, 2015, the state and county funding for the mental health and disability services administered or paid for by counties shall be provided based on a statewide per capita expenditure target amount computed in accordance with this section and section 334.424A.
   4.  a.  For the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2013, and July 1, 2014, and July 1, 2015, a county with a county population expenditure target amount that exceeds the amount of the county’s base year expenditures for mental health and disabilities services shall receive an equalization payment for the difference.
   b.  The equalization payments determined in accordance with this subsection shall be made by the department of human services for each fiscal year as provided in appropriations made from the property tax relief fund for this purpose. If the county is part of a region that has been approved by the department in accordance with section 331.389, to commence partial or full operations, the county’s equalization payment shall be remitted to the region or the county, as appropriate, for expenditure as approved by the region’s governing board or in accordance with the county’s service management plan, as appropriate. The payment for a county that has been approved by the department to operate as an individual county region shall be remitted to the county for expenditure as approved by the county board of supervisors. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, and succeeding fiscal years, the payment shall be remitted on or before December 31 only for those counties approved to operate as an individual county region or to be part of a region. Remittance of the payment for a county without such approval shall be deferred until such approval is granted.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill extends the duration of county mental health and disabilities services fund per capita levy and equalization provisions.
   Code section 331.424A, relating to the county mental health and disability services funds and levies, is amended. The requirement for counties to levy using a $47.28 base per capita amount or the county’s base year expenditures, whichever dollar amount is less, applies only for FY 2013-2014 and FY 2014-2015. The bill extends this requirement through FY 2015-2016. 
   Code section 426B.3, relating to per capita funding for county services funds, is amended. The bill extends the $47.28 per capita levy provisions and the requirement for the state to provide equalization payments to counties restricted from levying the full per capita amount to continue through FY 2015-2016.