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Establishing a mental health and disability services risk pool and risk pool board, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 20, 2020
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
1 to provide funds to mental health and disability services regions with an actual need for risk pool assistance funding to implement or continue specified required mental health and disability services for adults and children.2 million annually from the general fund of the state to the department of human services to be credited to the risk pool. The bill creates a risk pool board. The board shall consist of two county supervisors, two county auditors, a member of the mental health and disability services commission who is not a member of a county board of supervisors, a member of the county finance committee who is not an elected official, a representative of a provider of mental health or developmental disabilities services selected from nominees submitted by the Iowa association of community providers, and two staff members of regional administrators of county mental health and disability services regions, all appointed by the governor, and one member appointed by the director of human services.
Read the full explanation
All members appointed by the governor shall be subject to confirmation by the senate. Members shall serve for three-year terms. To receive funding, a regional administrator must apply to the risk pool board for assistance from the risk pool on or before October preceding the fiscal year for which assistance is requested. The purpose of the assistance shall be to provide financial support for services provided by one or more of the counties comprising the regional administrator’s mental health and disability services region. The risk pool board shall make its final decisions on or before December regarding acceptance or rejection of the applications for assistance and the total amount accepted shall be considered obligated. The bill establishes basic eligibility for risk pool assistance, requires the risk pool board to review the fiscal year-end financial records for all mental health and disability services regions that are granted risk pool assistance, directs the risk pool board to determine application requirements to ensure prudent use of risk pool assistance, and establishes the circumstances under which risk pool assistance is to be made available. The bill authorizes the mental health and disability services commission to adopt emergency rules to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill takes effect upon enactment.