Amendment S-3200 to SF 561
Relating to appropriations for veterans and health and human services and including other related provisions and appropriations including health policy oversight, public assistance program provisions and a public assistance modernization fund, sprinkler systems for home and community-based services waiver recipient residences, a state-funded family medicine obstetrics fellowship program and fund, adoption subsidy program nonrecurring adoption expenses, real estate transactions involving departmental institutions, providing penalties, and including effective date and other applicability date provisions
Ruled out of order · April 27, 2023
Filed April 27, 2023 in the Senate by Sen. Nate Boulton (D), Sen. Janice Weiner (D)
What it changes
- Page 62, line 18, by striking “providers.” and inserting “providers, and shall set the rates based on the most recent market rate survey completed.”
- Page 78, after line 19 by inserting: “DIVISION ___ STATE CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE —— CHILDREN NEEDING SPECIAL NEEDS CARE, INITIAL ELIGIBILITY, AND REIMBURSEMENT Sec. ___. Section 237A.1, Code 2023, is amended by adding the following new subsection: NEW SUBSECTION . 7A. “Children needing special needs care” or “special needs child” means a child or children with one or more of the following conditions: a. The child has been diagnosed by a physician or by a person endorsed for service as a school psychologist by the department of education to have a developmental disability which substantially limits one or more major life activities, and the child requires professional treatment, assistance in self-care, or the purchase of special adaptive equipment. b. The child has been determined by a qualified intellectual disability professional to have a condition which impairs the child’s intellectual and social functioning. c. The child has been diagnosed by a mental health professional to have a behavioral or emotional disorder characterized by situationally inappropriate behavior which deviates substantially from behavior appropriate to the child’s age, or which significantly interferes with the child’s intellectual, social, or personal development. Sec. ___. Section 237A.13, Code 2023, is amended by adding the following new subsection: NEW SUBSECTION . 1A. A family shall only be initially eligible for state child care assistance if the family’s gross monthly income does not exceed the lesser of: a. (1) (a) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, one hundred sixty percent of the federal poverty level applicable -1- S 3194.2046 (3) 90 dg/rh 1/ 3 to the family size for children needing basic care. (b) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, one hundred seventy percent of the federal poverty level applicable to the family size for children needing basic care. (c) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, one hundred eighty percent of the federal poverty level applicable to the family size for children needing basic care. (d) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, one hundred ninety percent of the federal poverty level applicable to the family size for children needing basic care. (e) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2027, and for each fiscal year thereafter, two hundred percent of the federal poverty level applicable to the family size for children needing basic care. (2) Two hundred percent of the federal poverty level applicable to the family size for children needing special needs care. b. Eighty-five percent of the state median gross monthly income. Sec. ___. Section 237A.13, subsection 8, Code 2023, is amended by adding the following new paragraph: NEW PARAGRAPH . e. Families with an income of more than one hundred forty-five percent of the federal poverty level but not more than the maximum income necessary to be eligible for state child care assistance whose members, for at least twenty-eight hours per week in the aggregate, are employed or are participating at a satisfactory level in an approved training program or educational program.”
- By renumbering as necessary.