SF 377 (LSB 1446SV (1) 85)

SENATE FILE 377

BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES

(SUCCESSOR TO SF 12)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to area health education centers, creating an area health education centers fund, and providing an appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  135.179  Area health education centers fund.
   An area health education centers fund is created in the state treasury as a separate fund under the control of the department. The department may receive appropriations, contributions, grants, and in-kind contributions to support the purposes of the fund. The fund shall be separate from the general fund of the state and shall not be considered part of the general fund of the state. The moneys in the fund shall not be considered revenue of the state, but rather shall be moneys of the fund. The moneys in the fund are appropriated to the department to be distributed to a publicly owned acute care teaching hospital located in a county with a population over three hundred fifty thousand that shall subcontract with health care entities that host regional area health education centers to recruit and retain a skilled health care workforce in rural and underserved areas of the state. The funds distributed shall be used to provide the nonfederal funding match requirement for receipt of federal grants for area health education centers from the federal health resources and services administration of the United States department of health and human services and to assist with continuation of existing educational health care programs and activities. The moneys in the fund are not subject to section 8.33 and shall not be transferred, used, obligated, appropriated, or otherwise encumbered, except to provide for the purposes of this section. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys deposited in the fund shall be credited to the fund.
    Sec. 2.  AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS —— APPROPRIATION.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state for deposit in the area health education centers fund created in section 135.179 pursuant to this Act, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2014, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, for the purposes specified for the fund:
.................................................. $    500,000
    Sec. 3.  CODE EDITOR DIRECTIVE.  The Code editor shall create a new division in chapter 135 codifying section 135.179, as enacted in this Act, as the area health education centers fund.
EXPLANATION
   This bill relates to area health education centers (AHECs). The bill creates an area health education centers fund in the state treasury as a separate fund under the control of the department of public health. The moneys in the fund are appropriated to the department to be distributed to a publicly owned acute care teaching hospital located in a county with a population over 350,000 that shall subcontract with health care entities that host AHECs to recruit and retain health care providers in rural and underserved areas of the state. The funds distributed are to be used to provide the nonfederal funding match requirement for receipt of federal grants for AHECs from the federal health resources and services administration of the United States department of health and human services and to provide for continuation of existing educational health care programs and activities.
   The bill also makes an appropriation of $500,000 from the general fund of the state for deposit in the area health education centers fund to be used for the purposes of the fund.