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SF 2314Died when the session ended · February 17, 2022

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

Sponsored by the Senate Human Resources Committee

Topics:Health careTaxesMental health & addiction

Same legislation: SSB 3116

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2022
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 8, 2022
  3. Done: Senate committeeFebruary 16, 2022
  4. 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

AI summary Mental health and disability services regions can now keep more money in their accounts before they face funding cuts. This change allows these regions to hold onto a larger amount of cash reserves based on what they spent the previous year.1

Read the official explanation

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.

Full bill text2

Senate subcommittee

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

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§225C.7A§331.391

How the Code works3

Lobbying

13 for · 0 against · 15 undecided · Who →

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