House File 575

                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES

                                       (SUCCESSOR TO HF 382)


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing for offset of certain billings to counties for
  2    mental health, mental retardation, and developmental
  3    disabilities services and including an applicability
  4    provision.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 331.438, subsection 2, paragraph c,
  1  2 Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    c.  The department of human services shall provide for
  1  4 payment of the amount due a county for the county's allowed
  1  5 growth factor adjustment determined in accordance with this
  1  6 subsection.  However, if the state has outstanding billings to
  1  7 a county for mental health, mental retardation, or
  1  8 developmental disabilities services, the department has
  1  9 followed the procedures in the department's administrative
  1 10 rules for offset of county debts owed to the department, the
  1 11 billings have been outstanding for one year or more, and the
  1 12 county did not contest the billing during the one=year period,
  1 13 the county's allowed growth factor adjustment payment shall be
  1 14 reduced by the amount of the outstanding billings that is
  1 15 attributable to mental health, mental retardation, and
  1 16 developmental disabilities services.  The amount of the
  1 17 reduction of the county's allowed growth factor adjustment
  1 18 payment shall be considered a repayment receipt and shall be
  1 19 credited as though remitted by the county.  The director of
  1 20 human services shall authorize warrants payable to the county
  1 21 treasurer for the amounts due and the warrants shall be mailed
  1 22 in January of each year.  The county treasurer shall credit
  1 23 the amount of the warrant to the county's services fund
  1 24 created under section 331.424A.
  1 25    Sec. 2.  APPLICABILITY.  The requirements of section
  1 26 331.438, subsection 2, paragraph "c", as amended by this Act,
  1 27 are not applicable to a billing described in 2001 Iowa Acts,
  1 28 chapter 155, section 12.
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