Bill Text: IA SF365 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to county funding of mental health and disability services and the mental health and disability services property tax levy and including effective date provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Independent 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-28 - Subcommittee: Feenstra, Brown, and Jochum. S.J. 426. [SF365 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF365-Introduced.html

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Senate File 365 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  D. JOHNSON

                                 (COMPANION TO HF 343
                                     BY KAUFMANN)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to county funding of mental health and
  2    disability services and the mental health and disability
  3    services property tax levy and including effective date
  4    provisions.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 222.73, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code
  1  2 2017, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    b.  The per diem costs billed to each mental health and
  1  4 disability services region shall not exceed the per diem costs
  1  5 billed to the county in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996.
  1  6 However, the per diem costs billed to a county may be adjusted
  1  7 for a fiscal year to reflect increased costs to the extent of
  1  8 the percentage increase in the statewide per capita expenditure
  1  9 target amount, if any per capita growth amount is authorized by
  1 10 the general assembly for that fiscal year in accordance with
  1 11 section 331.424A 426B.3.
  1 12    Sec. 2.  Section 331.424A, subsections 6 and 8, Code 2017,
  1 13 are amended to read as follows:
  1 14    6.  For each fiscal year, the county shall certify a levy
  1 15 for payment of services. For each fiscal year, county revenues
  1 16 from taxes imposed by the county credited to the services fund
  1 17 shall not exceed an amount equal to the amount of base year
  1 18 expenditures for mental health and disability services. A
  1 19 levy certified under this section is not subject to the appeal
  1 20 provisions of section 331.426 or to any other provision in law
  1 21 authorizing a county to exceed, increase, or appeal a property
  1 22 tax levy limit.
  1 23    8.  Notwithstanding subsection 6, for the fiscal years
  1 24 beginning July 1, 2013, July 1, 2014, July 1, 2015, July 1,
  1 25 2016, and July 1, 2017, For the fiscal year beginning July 1,
  1 26 2017, and each fiscal year thereafter, county revenues from
  1 27 taxes levied by the county and credited to the county services
  1 28 fund shall not exceed the lower of the following amounts:
  1 29    a.  The amount of the county's base year expenditures for
  1 30 mental health and disabilities services.
  1 31    b.  The an amount equal to the product of the statewide per
  1 32 capita expenditure target amount established in section 426B.3
  1 33  for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, multiplied by the
  1 34 county's general population as determined by the state for the
  1 35 same fiscal year.
  2  1    Sec. 3.  COUNTY BUDGET RECERTIFICATION.  If this Act is
  2  2 enacted on or after March 15, 2017, notwithstanding section
  2  3 24.17, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, a county may
  2  4 recertify the county's budget as necessary to implement the
  2  5 provisions of this Act. A budget recertified pursuant to this
  2  6 section must be recertified in duplicate to the county auditor
  2  7 not later than April 15, 2017, and protests to the budget shall
  2  8 be filed not later than April 25, 2017.
  2  9    Sec. 4.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
  2 10 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  2 11                           EXPLANATION
  2 12 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  2 13 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  2 14    Under current law, for the fiscal period beginning July 1,
  2 15 2013, and ending June 30, 2018, county revenues from property
  2 16 taxes levied by the county and credited to a county mental
  2 17 health and disabilities services fund shall not exceed the
  2 18 lower of the amount of the county's base year expenditures for
  2 19 mental health and disability services or the amount equal to
  2 20 the product of the statewide per capita expenditure target
  2 21 established in Code section 462B.3, subsection 2, for the
  2 22 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, multiplied by the county's
  2 23 general population for the same fiscal year.  After June 30,
  2 24 2017, current law provides that county revenues from property
  2 25 taxes levied and credited to the services fund shall not exceed
  2 26 an amount equal to the county's base year expenditures for
  2 27 these services.
  2 28    This bill establishes, for FY 2017=2018 and subsequent
  2 29 fiscal years, a statewide standard property tax levy for mental
  2 30 health and disability services based upon the per capita
  2 31 expenditure target of $47.28 established in FY 2013=2014
  2 32 multiplied by the county's general population as determined by
  2 33 the state for the same fiscal year.
  2 34    The bill provides that, notwithstanding the deadline for
  2 35 certifying a county budget, for the fiscal year beginning
  3  1 July 1, 2017, a county may recertify the county's budget as
  3  2 necessary to implement the bill if the bill is enacted after
  3  3 the budget certification deadline. A budget recertified
  3  4 pursuant to the bill must be recertified to the county auditor
  3  5 no later than April 15, 2017, and protests to the budget must
  3  6 be filed no later than April 25, 2017.
  3  7    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
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