SENATE FILE 527

BY  COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

(SUCCESSOR TO SSB 1207)

(As Amended and Passed by the Senate 2011-04-26)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the administration of the Iowa finance authority and making appropriations and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  IOWA FINANCE AUTHORITY.
   1.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the Iowa finance authority for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2012, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used to provide reimbursement for rent expenses to eligible persons under the rent subsidy program:
.................................................. $    658,000
   2.  Participation in the rent subsidy program shall be limited to only those persons who meet the requirements for the nursing facility level of care for home and community-based services waiver services as in effect on July 1, 2011, and to those individuals who are eligible for the federal money follows the person grant program under the medical assistance program. Of the moneys appropriated in this section, not more than $35,000 may be used for administrative costs.
   Sec. 2.  IOWA FINANCE AUTHORITY AUDIT.  The auditor of state is requested to review the audit of the Iowa finance authority performed by the auditor hired by the authority.
   Sec. 3.  Section 16.41, subsection 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A shelter assistance fund is created as a revolving fund in the state treasury under the control of the authority consisting of any moneys appropriated by the general assembly and received under section 428A.8 for purposes of the rehabilitation, expansion, or costs of operations of group home shelters for the homeless and domestic violence shelters, evaluation of services for the homeless, and match moneys for federal funds for the homeless management information system. Each fiscal year, moneys in the fund, in an amount equal to not more than two percent of the total moneys distributed as grants from the fund during the fiscal year, may be used for purposes of administering the fund.
   Sec. 4.  NEW SECTION.  16.185  Community housing for persons with disabilities revolving loan program fund.
   1.  A community housing for persons with disabilities loan program fund is created within the authority to further the availability of affordable housing for Medicaid waiver-eligible individuals with behaviors that provide significant barriers to accessing traditional rental opportunities. The moneys in the fund are annually appropriated to the authority to be used for the development and operation of a revolving loan program to provide financing to construct affordable permanent supportive housing, including through new construction, acquisition and rehabilitation of existing housing, or conversion or adaptive reuse. 
   2.  Moneys transferred by the authority for deposit in the community housing for persons with disabilities revolving loan program fund, moneys appropriated to the community housing for persons with disabilities revolving loan program, and any other moneys available to and obtained or accepted by the authority for placement in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Additionally, payment of interest, recaptures of awards, and other repayments to the community housing for persons with disabilities revolving loan program fund shall be credited to the fund. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys in the community housing for persons with disabilities revolving loan program fund shall be credited to the fund. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys credited to the fund that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert to any other fund.
   3.  The authority shall annually allocate moneys available in the community housing for persons with disabilities revolving loan program fund for the development of permanent supportive housing for Medicaid waiver-eligible individuals. The authority shall develop a joint application process for the allocation of United States housing and urban development HOME investment partnerships program funding and the funds available under this section. Moneys allocated to such projects may be in the form of loans, forgivable loans, or a combination of loans and forgivable loans.
   4.
  a.  A project shall demonstrate written approval of the project by the department of human services to the authority prior to application for funding under this section. 
   b.  In order to be approved by the department of human services for application for funding under this section, a project shall include all of the following components:
   (1)  Provision of services to any of the following Medicaid waiver-eligible individuals:
   (a)  Individuals who are currently underserved in community placements, including individuals who are physically aggressive or have behaviors that are difficult to manage. 
   (b)  Individuals who are currently residing in out-of-state facilities.
   (c)  Individuals who are currently receiving care in a licensed health care facility. 
   (2)  A plan to provide each individual with crisis stabilization services to ensure that the individual’s behavioral issues are appropriately addressed by the provider.
   (3)  Policies and procedures that prohibit discharge of the individual from the waiver services provided by the project provider unless an alternative placement that is acceptable to the client or client’s guardian is identified.
   c.  Housing provided through a project under this section is exempt from the requirements of chapter 135O.
   5.  The authority, in collaboration with the department of human services, shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17 to administer this section.
   Sec. 5.  2009 Iowa Acts, chapter 182, section 14, subsection 5, is amended by adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
   NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH.  Notwithstanding section 232.188, subsection 5, moneys from the allocations made in this subsection or made from any other source for the decategorization of child welfare and juvenile justice funding initiative under section 232.188 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009, that are designated as carryover funding that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, shall not revert but shall be transferred to the community housing for persons with disabilities revolving loan program fund created in section 16.185, as enacted by this Act.
   Sec. 6.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.