Bill Text: IA SF79 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa Senate Bill 79 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act establishing a case navigator pilot program, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-17 - Subcommittee: Schneider, Kinney, and Sinclair. S.J. 94. [SF79 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF79-Introduced.html

Senate File 79 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  McCOY

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act establishing a case navigator pilot program, making
  2    appropriations, and including effective date provisions.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  13B.9A  Case navigator pilot
  1  2 program.
  1  3    1.  The state public defender shall establish, promote, and
  1  4 administer a case navigator pilot program for the purposes
  1  5 of assisting parents involved in child in need of assistance
  1  6 cases.  Financial assistance under the program shall be
  1  7 provided from moneys appropriated to the case navigator
  1  8 program.
  1  9    2.  The case navigators shall provide monthly services to
  1 10 fifty parents involved in child in need of assistance cases.
  1 11    3.  The case navigators shall work with parents to educate
  1 12 them with regard to case procedures, terms, court room location
  1 13 and procedures, expectations of attorneys, the department of
  1 14 human services, and the court, and their own expectations.
  1 15 The case navigators shall assist parents in accessing online
  1 16 case management programs.  The case navigators shall develop
  1 17 strategies to assist the parents when the child in need of
  1 18 assistance case is closed and the case navigators pilot program
  1 19 services end.
  1 20    4.  a.  The state public defender shall conduct a
  1 21 comprehensive review of the case navigator pilot program
  1 22 and shall, by December 31, 2019, submit a report of the
  1 23 review, and any recommendations and cost projections of such
  1 24 recommendations to the governor and the general assembly.
  1 25    b.  If the report deems the case navigator pilot program
  1 26 successful, the state public defender shall seek appropriated
  1 27 moneys to expand the program statewide.
  1 28    c.  If the report deems the case navigator pilot program
  1 29 unsuccessful, the case navigator pilot program shall not accept
  1 30 any additional parents as clients and the program shall expend
  1 31 resources to provide services to parents already in the program
  1 32 through the end of their case involvement, if possible.
  1 33    Sec. 2.  CASE NAVIGATOR PILOT PROGRAM APPROPRIATIONS.  There
  1 34 is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the
  1 35 office of the state public defender of the department of
  2  1 inspections and appeals for the following fiscal years, the
  2  2 following amounts, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
  2  3 used for the purposes designated:
  2  4    For the case navigator pilot program:
  2  5    1.  FY 2018=2019:
  2  6 .................................................. $    150,000
  2  7    2.  FY 2019=2020:
  2  8 .................................................. $    150,000
  2  9    Of the moneys appropriated for each fiscal year, up to $250
  2 10 each month may be used for each client and the case navigator
  2 11 pilot program may accept no more than 50 cases each year for
  2 12 the two=year program.  Of the moneys appropriated, moneys may
  2 13 be expended for interpreters where necessary.
  2 14    Sec. 3.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
  2 15 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  2 16                           EXPLANATION
  2 17 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  2 18 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  2 19    This bill establishes a case navigator pilot program for
  2 20 child in need of assistance cases and makes appropriations.
  2 21 The bill directs the state public defender to establish and
  2 22 administer the case navigator pilot program to provide services
  2 23 to parents involved in child in need of assistance cases.
  2 24    The bill requires the state public defender to report
  2 25 by December 31, 2019, to the governor and the general
  2 26 assembly.  If the report finds the case navigator pilot program
  2 27 successful, the bill directs the state public defender's office
  2 28 to seek appropriations to expand the program statewide.  If the
  2 29 report finds the case navigator pilot program unsuccessful,
  2 30 the bill directs the state public defender to expend moneys to
  2 31 ongoing  cases and not to accept new cases.
  2 32    The bill appropriates $150,000 from the general fund of the
  2 33 state to the state public defender's office in fiscal years
  2 34 2018=2019 and 2019=2020.  The pilot program may provide up to
  2 35 $250 a month, per client, for a total of no more than 50 clients
  3  1 in the case navigator pilot program each year.
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