Bill Text: IA HF2399 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the state training school at Eldora. (Formerly HSB 638.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-08 - Subcommittee: Shipley, Mathis, and Segebart. S.J. 600. [HF2399 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF2399-Amended.html

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House File 2399 - Reprinted




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN
                                     RESOURCES

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 638)
       (As Amended and Passed by the House March 7, 2018)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the state training school at Eldora.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 233A.1, Code 2018, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    233A.1  State training school ==== Eldora and Toledo.
  1  4    1.  Effective January 1, 1992, a diagnosis and evaluation
  1  5 center and other units are established at Eldora the state
  1  6 training school to provide to court=committed male juvenile
  1  7 delinquents a program which focuses upon appropriate
  1  8 developmental skills, treatment, placements, and rehabilitation
  1  9  on education, observation, treatment, and rehabilitation
  1 10 designed to help such juveniles recognize accountability for
  1 11 delinquent behavior by confronting and eliminating delinquent
  1 12 norms, criminal thinking, and antisocial behavior.  The state
  1 13 training school shall treat and assist such juveniles in the
  1 14 development of skills necessary to function effectively and
  1 15 positively in the community in a manner consistent with public
  1 16 safety by doing all of the following:
  1 17    a.  Providing humane, disciplined confinement to male
  1 18 juvenile delinquents who present a danger to the community.
  1 19    b.  Holding male juvenile delinquents accountable for their
  1 20 delinquent behavior.
  1 21    c.  Developing efficient and effective juvenile correctional
  1 22 programs within the framework of professional correctional
  1 23 standards and available resources that address the safety of
  1 24 students and staff and includes a regular independent review
  1 25 of the program.
  1 26    2.  The diagnosis and evaluation center which is used to
  1 27 identify appropriate treatment and placement alternatives
  1 28 for juveniles and any other units Units for court=committed
  1 29 male juvenile delinquents which are located at Eldora and
  1 30 the unit for juvenile delinquents at Toledo shall together
  1 31  be known as the "state training school". For the purposes of
  1 32 this chapter "director" means the director of human services
  1 33 and "superintendent" means the administrator in charge of the
  1 34 diagnosis and evaluation center for juvenile delinquents and
  1 35 other units at Eldora and the unit for juvenile delinquents at
  2  1 Toledo state training school.
  2  2    3.  The number of children present at any one time at the
  2  3 state training school at Eldora shall not exceed the population
  2  4 guidelines established under 1990 Iowa Acts, ch. 1239, {21, as
  2  5 adjusted for subsequent changes in the capacity at the training
  2  6 school.
  2  7    Sec. 2.  Section 233A.14, Code 2018, is amended to read as
  2  8 follows:
  2  9    233A.14  Transfers to other institutions.
  2 10    The administrator may transfer to the schools state training
  2 11 school minor wards of the state from any institution under the
  2 12 administrator's charge but no person shall be so transferred
  2 13 who is mentally ill or has an intellectual disability. Any
  2 14 child in the schools state training school who is mentally ill
  2 15 or has an intellectual disability may be transferred by the
  2 16 administrator to the proper state institution.
  2 17    Sec. 3.  Section 915.29, subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph
  2 18 1, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
  2 19    The department of human services shall notify a registered
  2 20 victim regarding a juvenile adjudicated delinquent for a
  2 21 violent crime, committed to the custody of the department of
  2 22 human services, and placed at the state training school at
  2 23 Eldora or Toledo, of the following:
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