House File 2537 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2537 BY COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2315) A BILL FOR An Act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile 1 detention home fund. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5335HV (1) 91 dg/ko
H.F. 2537 Section 1. Section 232.142, subsection 6, paragraph b, Code 1 2026, is amended to read as follows: 2 b. (1) Moneys deposited in the juvenile detention home 3 fund during a fiscal year are appropriated to the department 4 for the same fiscal year for distribution of an amount equal to 5 a percentage of the costs of the establishment, improvement, 6 operation, and maintenance of county or multicounty juvenile 7 detention homes in the prior immediately preceding fiscal year. 8 Such percentage shall be determined by the department based on 9 the amount available for distribution from the fund. 10 (2) Moneys appropriated for distribution in accordance with 11 this subsection shall be allocated among eligible detention 12 homes, as follows: 13 (a) One hundred fifty thousand dollars shall be distributed 14 to each eligible county or multicounty juvenile detention home. 15 (b) Appropriated moneys remaining after the distribution 16 in subparagraph division (a) shall be prorated and distributed 17 on the basis of an eligible county or multicounty juvenile 18 detention home’s proportion of the costs of all eligible 19 county or multicounty juvenile detention homes in the prior 20 immediately preceding fiscal year. 21 EXPLANATION 22 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 23 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 24 This bill relates to allocations of moneys from the juvenile 25 detention home fund (fund). 26 The fund is in the state treasury under the authority of the 27 department of health and human services for the purposes of 28 establishing, improving, operating, and maintaining juvenile 29 detention homes (homes). Under current law, moneys in the fund 30 are distributed to a home based on the home’s proportion of the 31 costs of all homes in the immediately preceding fiscal year. 32 The bill instead requires $150,000 to be distributed to each 33 home. Moneys in the fund remaining after the initial $150,000 34 distribution to each home are distributed based on each home’s 35 -1- LSB 5335HV (1) 91 dg/ko 1/ 2
H.F. 2537 proportion of the total costs of all homes for the immediately 1 preceding fiscal year. 2 -2- LSB 5335HV (1) 91 dg/ko 2/ 2