House File 337 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 337 BY EHLERT , STAED , HALL , DONAHUE , KRESSIG , CAHILL , JACOBY , BROWN-POWERS , ANDERSON , HANSEN , and BENNETT A BILL FOR An Act relating to licensed and registered child care provider 1 reimbursement rates under the state child care assistance 2 program. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2045YH (3) 89 dg/rh
H.F. 337 Section 1. Section 237A.13, subsection 3, Code 2021, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 3. The For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and 3 each fiscal year thereafter, the department shall set licensed 4 and registered provider reimbursement rates , as authorized 5 by appropriations enacted for payment of the reimbursements , 6 at the one-hundredth percentile of the most recent statewide 7 reimbursement rate survey . The department shall conduct a 8 statewide reimbursement rate survey to compile information on 9 each county and the survey shall be conducted at least every 10 two years. The department shall set rates in a manner so as 11 to provide incentives for an unregistered provider to become 12 registered. 13 EXPLANATION 14 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 15 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 16 This bill relates to licensed and registered child care 17 provider reimbursement rates under the state child care 18 assistance program. 19 The bill requires the department of human services to set 20 licensed and registered child care provider reimbursement rates 21 for the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2021, and each fiscal 22 year thereafter, at the 100th percentile of the most recent 23 statewide reimbursement rate survey, which is conducted at 24 least every two years. 25 -1- LSB 2045YH (3) 89 dg/rh 1/ 1