Bill Text: IA HF337 | 2021-2022 | 89th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to licensed and registered child care provider reimbursement rates under the state child care assistance program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-02 - Introduced, referred to Human Resources. H.J. 276. [HF337 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2021-HF337-Introduced.html
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BY
EHLERT
,
STAED
,
HALL
,
DONAHUE
,
KRESSIG
,
CAHILL
,
JACOBY
,
BROWN-POWERS
,
ANDERSON
,
HANSEN
,
and
BENNETT
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
licensed
and
registered
child
care
provider
1
reimbursement
rates
under
the
state
child
care
assistance
2
program.
3
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
237A.13,
subsection
3,
Code
2021,
is
1
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
3.
The
For
the
fiscal
year
beginning
July
1,
2021,
and
3
each
fiscal
year
thereafter,
the
department
shall
set
licensed
4
and
registered
provider
reimbursement
rates
,
as
authorized
5
by
appropriations
enacted
for
payment
of
the
reimbursements
,
6
at
the
one-hundredth
percentile
of
the
most
recent
statewide
7
reimbursement
rate
survey
.
The
department
shall
conduct
a
8
statewide
reimbursement
rate
survey
to
compile
information
on
9
each
county
and
the
survey
shall
be
conducted
at
least
every
10
two
years.
The
department
shall
set
rates
in
a
manner
so
as
11
to
provide
incentives
for
an
unregistered
provider
to
become
12
registered.
13
EXPLANATION
14
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
15
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
16
This
bill
relates
to
licensed
and
registered
child
care
17
provider
reimbursement
rates
under
the
state
child
care
18
assistance
program.
19
The
bill
requires
the
department
of
human
services
to
set
20
licensed
and
registered
child
care
provider
reimbursement
rates
21
for
the
fiscal
year
that
begins
July
1,
2021,
and
each
fiscal
22
year
thereafter,
at
the
100th
percentile
of
the
most
recent
23
statewide
reimbursement
rate
survey,
which
is
conducted
at
24
least
every
two
years.
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