Bill Text: IA SF492 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act creating a disaster case management grant fund and program. (Formerly SF 307 and SF 411.)
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2016-04-29 - Sent to Governor. S.J. 0. [SF492 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-SF492-Enrolled.html
Senate File 492 - Enrolled
SENATE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON
APPROPRIATIONS
(SUCCESSOR TO SF 411)
(SUCCESSOR TO SF 307)
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A BILL FOR
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Senate File 492
AN ACT
CREATING A DISASTER CASE MANAGEMENT GRANT FUND AND PROGRAM.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section 29C.20B, Code 2016, is amended by
striking the section and inserting in lieu thereof the
following:
29C.20B Disaster case management grant fund and program.
1. a. A disaster case management grant fund is created
in the state treasury for the use of the executive council.
Moneys in the fund shall be expended if grants are awarded
pursuant to section 29C.20A following the governor's
proclamation of a state of disaster emergency or the
declaration of a major disaster by the president of the United
States.
b. The executive council may make financial grants to meet
disaster=related case management needs of disaster=affected
individuals. The aggregate total of grants awarded shall
not be more than one million dollars during a fiscal year.
However, within the same fiscal year, additional funds may
be specifically authorized by the executive council to meet
additional needs. Upon request of the department of human
services, the executive council may make available up to one
hundred thousand dollars, or so much as is necessary, for
contract entity staff support and case management training.
c. The department of human services shall work with the
department of homeland security and emergency management
and, as selected by the department of human services, a
representative of nonprofit, voluntary, and faith=based
organizations active in disaster recovery and response to
establish a statewide system of disaster case management
to be activated following the governor's proclamation of a
disaster emergency or the declaration of a major disaster by
the president of the United States for individual assistance
purposes.
2. The department of human services shall administer
disaster case management grants. The department of human
services, in conjunction with the department of homeland
security and emergency management, shall establish a
disaster case management program and adopt rules pursuant
to chapter 17A necessary to administer the program. The
executive council shall use grant moneys to reimburse the
department of human services for actual expenses associated
with the administration of the grants. Under the program,
the department of human services shall coordinate case
management services locally through one or more contracted
entities. The department of human services shall implement
an ongoing contract with a provider of a statewide program
with local offices throughout the state to serve as the
local administrative entity for the grant program to allow
implementation of the program with minimal delay if grants are
awarded pursuant to section 29C.20A following a governor's
proclamation of a state of disaster emergency or a declaration
of a major disaster by the president of the United States.
3. The department of human services, in conjunction with
the department of homeland security and emergency management
and a representative of the Iowa voluntary organizations
active in disaster, shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter
17A to create coordination mechanisms and standards for the
establishment and implementation of a statewide system of
disaster case management. The rules adopted by the department
of human services for the program shall include but are not
limited to all of the following:
a. If a local administrative entity is under contract with
the state to provide other services or is implementing a state
or federal program and the contract contains a sufficient
surety bond or other adequate financial responsibility
provisions, the department shall accept the existing surety
bond or financial responsibility provisions in lieu of
applying a new or additional surety bond or financial
responsibility requirement.
b. Authorization for the local administrative entity to
draw down grant funding to pay valid claims on at least a
weekly basis.
c. Disaster case management standards.
d. Disaster case management policies.
e. Reporting requirements.
f. Eligibility criteria.
g. Coordination mechanisms necessary to carry out the
services provided.
h. Development of formal working relationships with
agencies and creation of interagency agreements for those
considered to provide disaster case management services.
i. Establishment of nonduplication of benefits policies and
mechanisms for the exchange of information between agencies
to ensure compliance with the federal Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. L. No.
104=191, 110 Stat. 1936 (1996).
j. Referral to all known available services for individuals
from multiple agencies in coordinated service locations.
4. By January 1 of each year, the department of human
services shall submit an annual written report to the
legislative fiscal committee and the general assembly's
standing committees on government oversight concerning the
activities of the grant program during the previous fiscal
year.
PAM JOCHUM
President of the Senate
LINDA UPMEYER
Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 492, Eighty=sixth General Assembly.
MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
Secretary of the Senate
Approved , 2016
TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor
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