SF 2117 (LSB 6134SV (4) 87)

SENATE FILE 2117

BY  COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

(SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3089)

(As Amended and Passed by the Senate 2018-02-08)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to public funding and regulatory matters and making, reducing, transferring, and supplementing appropriations for expenditures in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

DIVISION I
APPROPRIATION REDUCTIONS

    Section 1.  EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL BRANCH APPROPRIATION REDUCTIONS.
   1.  For the period beginning on the effective date of this section and ending on June 30, 2018, the following departments and agencies and the judicial branch are subject to a reduction in expenditures made from appropriations from the general fund in the following amounts:   a.  Department of administrative services
   ...................................................................... $     62,560
   b.  Auditor of state
   ...................................................................... $      8,062
   c.  Department of commerce
   ...................................................................... $     24,866
   d.  Executive council
   ...................................................................... $        777
   e.  Governor’s office
   ...................................................................... $     20,888
   f.  Governor’s office of drug control policy
   ...................................................................... $      2,058
   g.  Department of human rights
   ...................................................................... $     21,228
   h.  Department of inspections and appeals
   ...................................................................... $    204,748

   In identifying and implementing the reduction pursuant to this paragraph, the director of the department shall be authorized to make allocations between department divisions in the manner and to the extent as the director determines appropriate, in consultation with the department of management.   i.  State public defender
   ...................................................................... $    236,041
   j.  Department of management
   ...................................................................... $     22,629
   k.  Department of revenue
   ...................................................................... $    528,271
   l.  Secretary of state
   ...................................................................... $     31,525
   m.  Treasurer of state
   ...................................................................... $      9,256
   n.  Department of agriculture and land stewardship
   ...................................................................... $    377,376
   o.  Department of natural resources
   ...................................................................... $    123,373
   p.  Department of cultural affairs
   ...................................................................... $    103,786
   q.  Economic development authority
   ...................................................................... $    132,013
   r.  Iowa workforce development
   ...................................................................... $    141,013
   s.  Department for the blind
   ...................................................................... $     19,720
   t.  College student aid commission
   ...................................................................... $     94,172
   u.  Department of education
   ...................................................................... $  1,169,660

   In identifying and implementing the reduction pursuant to this paragraph, the department shall not reduce the standing appropriation under section 285.2, subsection 1, paragraph “b” for purposes of nonpublic school transportation.    v.  Community colleges
   ...................................................................... $  1,813,797
   w.  Vocational rehabilitation
   ...................................................................... $     54,472
   x.  Iowa public television
   ...................................................................... $    160,000
   y.  Board of regents
   ...................................................................... $ 14,563,265
   z.  Department on aging
   ...................................................................... $    220,024
   aa.  Department of public health
   ...................................................................... $    925,742
   ab.  Department of human services
   ...................................................................... $  6,237,126

   In identifying and implementing the reduction pursuant to this paragraph, the department shall not reduce benefits available under the Medicaid state plan and approved waivers.   ac.  Department of veterans affairs
   ...................................................................... $     36,877
   ad.  Iowa veterans home
   ...................................................................... $     65,164
   ae.  Department of justice
   ...................................................................... $    378,471
   In identifying and implementing the reduction pursuant to this paragraph, the department shall not reduce expenditures made from appropriations for victim assistance grants.   af.  Iowa civil rights commission
   ...................................................................... $     31,293
   ag.  Department of corrections
   ...................................................................... $  3,405,688
   ah.  Law enforcement academy
   ...................................................................... $      8,607
   ai.  Department of public defense
   ...................................................................... $     59,193
   aj.  Department of homeland security and emergency management
   ...................................................................... $     19,130
   ak.  Department of public safety
   ...................................................................... $    200,000

   The department shall not apply any reduction to expenditures made from appropriations to the division of the state patrol.
   al.  Judicial branch
   ...................................................................... $  1,611,815

   2.  The department of management, in consultation with the departments and agencies and the judicial branch listed in subsection 1, shall identify and implement the reductions in subsection 1 with respect to the appropriate general fund appropriations. Within fifteen days of the effective date of this section, the department of management shall transmit a report to the general assembly and legislative services agency listing the appropriation reductions applied.
   3.  In order to implement the reductions in subsection 1, the departments and agencies and the judicial branch may adjust allocations made from appropriations that are being reduced.
   4.  In order to implement the reductions in subsection 1, the department of management may reduce a standing appropriation to a department or agency required to reduce expenditures pursuant to subsection 1.
    Sec. 2.  LIMITATIONS OF STANDING APPROPRIATION —— FY 2017-2018.  Notwithstanding the standing appropriation in the following designated section for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018, the amount appropriated from the general fund of the state pursuant to the section for the following designated purpose shall not exceed the following amount:
   For regional tourism marketing under section 99F.11, subsection 3, paragraph “d”, subparagraph (2):
   ...................................................................... $    750,000
    Sec. 3.  TRANSFER —— IOWA SKILLED WORKER AND JOB CREATION FUND.  There is transferred from the Iowa skilled worker and job creation fund created in section 8.75 to the general fund of the state for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018, the following amount:
   ...................................................................... $ 10,000,000
    Sec. 4.  SUPPLEMENTAL REIMBURSEMENT FOR GROUND EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED TO MEDICAID BENEFICIARIES.  The department of human services shall submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services to request authorization to establish and administer a methodology to provide supplemental reimbursement to eligible ground emergency medical transportation providers that provide ground emergency medical transportation services to Medicaid beneficiaries. For purposes of this section, “eligible ground emergency medical transportation provider” means a provider who provides ground emergency medical transportation services to Medicaid beneficiaries and is enrolled as a Medicaid provider during the period being claimed.
   The emergency medical transportation intergovernmental transfer obligation established under this section is contingent upon the continuation of the federal Medicaid funding methodology in effect on the effective date of this Act. If the federal methodology is changed after the effective date of this Act in a manner that negatively impacts the intergovernmental transfer obligation, as determined by the department, the department shall no longer be obligated to continue the intergovernmental transfer.
    Sec. 5.  LEGISLATORS’ PER DIEM FOR THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION.  Notwithstanding section 2.10, subsection 1, to the contrary, members of the Eighty-seventh General Assembly shall be limited to the receipt of a per diem for expenses of office for the Second Regular Session convening in 2018 for a maximum of eighty-five calendar days rather than one hundred calendar days.
    Sec. 6.  2017 Iowa Acts, chapter 169, section 17, subsection 1, paragraph a, subparagraph (1) is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  For the purposes of providing assistance under the high quality jobs program as described in section 15.335B:
   ...................................................................... $ 15,900,000
                                                                             5,900,000
    Sec. 7.  2017 Iowa Acts, chapter 170, section 5, subsection 1, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  The appropriations made pursuant to section 2.12 for the expenses of the general assembly and legislative agencies for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018, are reduced by the following amount:
   ...................................................................... $    400,000

                                                                          1,000,000
    Sec. 8.  2017 Iowa Acts, chapter 174, section 31, subsection 1, paragraph c, subparagraph (3), is amended to read as follows:
   (3)  (a)  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, the graduate medical education and disproportionate share hospital fund shall remain at the amount in effect on June 30, 2017, except that the portion of the fund attributable to graduate medical education shall be reduced in an amount that reflects the elimination of graduate medical education payments made to out-of-state hospitals.
   (b)  Effective March 1, 2018, a hospital that is located in Iowa, is classified as state government-owned or nonstate government-owned, and qualifies for graduate medical education or disproportionate share hospital payments shall transfer to the medical assistance program an amount equal to provide the nonfederal share for a graduate medical education and disproportionate share hospital payment. Distribution of the payments shall be made on a monthly basis. A hospital that meets the specified conditions shall receive and retain one hundred percent of the total graduate medical education and disproportionate share hospital payments.
    Sec. 9.  REPEAL.  2017 Iowa Acts, chapter 170, section 18, is repealed.
DIVISION II
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

    Sec. 10.  INDIGENT DEFENSE.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the office of the state public defender of the department of inspections and appeals for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary to supplement appropriations made for the following designated purpose:
   For payments on behalf of eligible adults and juveniles from the indigent defense fund in accordance with section 815.11:
   ...................................................................... $  1,700,000
    Sec. 11.  UTILITY COSTS.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of administrative services for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to supplement appropriations made for the following designated purpose:
   For payment of utility costs:
   ...................................................................... $    451,871
    Sec. 12.  PHARMACEUTICAL SETTLEMENT ACCOUNT.  There is appropriated from the pharmaceutical settlement account created in section 249A.33 to the department of human services for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purpose designated:
   Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, to supplement the appropriations made in this Act for medical contracts under the medical assistance program for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018:
   ...................................................................... $    800,000

                                                                             864,257
DIVISION III
EFFECTIVE DATE

    Sec. 13.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.