Bill Text: IA HF279 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to child care provider reimbursement rates under the state child care assistance program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-09 - Introduced, referred to Human Resources. H.J. 259. [HF279 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF279-Introduced.html

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House File 279 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  MASCHER, LENSING,
                                     WINCKLER, and
                                     T. TAYLOR

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to child care provider reimbursement rates
  2    under the state child care assistance program.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 237A.13, subsection 3, Code 2017, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    3.  The For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017,
  1  4 and each fiscal year thereafter, the department shall set
  1  5 provider reimbursement rates, as to the extent authorized by
  1  6 appropriations enacted for payment of the reimbursements, at
  1  7 the one hundredth percentile of the most recent statewide
  1  8 reimbursement rate survey. The department shall conduct a
  1  9 statewide reimbursement rate survey to compile information on
  1 10 each county and the survey shall be conducted at least every
  1 11 two years. The department shall set rates in a manner so as
  1 12 to provide incentives for an unregistered provider to become
  1 13 registered.
  1 14                           EXPLANATION
  1 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 16 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 17    This bill relates to child care provider reimbursement rates
  1 18 under the state child care assistance program.
  1 19    The bill requires the department of human services to set
  1 20 child care provider reimbursement rates for the fiscal year
  1 21 that begins July 1, 2017, and each fiscal year thereafter, to
  1 22 the extent authorized by appropriations for that purpose, at
  1 23 the 100th percentile of the most recent statewide reimbursement
  1 24 rate survey, which is conducted at least every two years.
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