Increasing the amount of cash reserves mental health and disability services regions may have before affecting quarterly payment amounts and incentive fund eligibility

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 17, 2022
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 23, 2022
3. ✓
   Done: Senate committeeFebruary 17, 2022
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   Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill increases the amount of moneys a mental health and disability services (MHDS) regional combined account may have before payments to the MHDS region are reduced and an MHDS region is disqualified from receiving funding from an MHDS incentive fund. The bill provides that, for fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2023, an MHDS region’s cash reserves cannot exceed percent of the actual expenditures from the combined account for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in progress. Under current law, for fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2023, an MHDS region’s cash reserves cannot exceed percent of the actual expenditures from the combined account for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in progress.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Senate subcommittee

Named February 23, 2022. On March 10, 2022 it recommended passage.

• Sen. Tim Goodwin R
• Sen. Dan Dawson REmail
• Sen. Pam Jochum D

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§225C.7A§331.391

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works