HF 2466: Establishing a mental health and disability services risk pool and risk pool board, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions

What it does

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.

Lobbying · 6 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Mental Health Advocacy; Iowa Mental Health Counselors Association; Iowa Primary Care Association; Iowa Psychological Association; National Alliance on Mental Illness - Iowa; Polk County - Board of Supervisors

In plain words

1. February 20, 2020Filed in the House and sent to the Human Resources committee