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: 6 TLSB 2806HV 80 7 jp/cf/24 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. 1 29 HF 575 1 30 jp/es/25 1 31 1 32 1 33 1 34 1 35