Bill Text: IA HF534 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to stipends for the mental health professional shortage area program. (Formerly HSB 188)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-04-30 - Message from House, with amendment S-3146. S.J. 950. [HF534 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF534-Amended.html

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House File 534 - Reprinted




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN
                                     RESOURCES

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 188)
       (As Amended and Passed by the House March 26, 2015)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to stipends for the mental health professional
  2    shortage area program.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 135.180, subsection 3, Code 2015, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    3.  a.  The program shall provide stipends to support
  1  4 psychiatrist positions with an emphasis on securing and
  1  5 retaining medical directors at community mental health centers,
  1  6 providers of mental health services to county residents
  1  7 pursuant to a waiver approved under section 225C.7, subsection
  1  8 3, Code 2011, and hospital psychiatric units that are located
  1  9 in mental health professional shortage areas.
  1 10    b.  The program shall provide stipends to support psychiatric
  1 11 positions at nonprofit agencies licensed under chapter 135H
  1 12 that provide mental health services if at least fifty percent
  1 13 of the clients are covered under the medical assistance program
  1 14 established in chapter 249A.
  1 15    Sec. 2.  Section 135.180, Code 2015, is amended by adding the
  1 16 following new subsection:
  1 17    NEW SUBSECTION.  6.  Any funds remaining available after the
  1 18 expenditures made pursuant to subsection 3 shall be used by the
  1 19 program to provide stipends to support all of the following:
  1 20    a.  Psychiatrist positions at community mental health centers
  1 21 and hospital psychiatric units if at least fifty percent of the
  1 22 clients served in the community mental health centers or in
  1 23 the hospital psychiatric units are covered under the medical
  1 24 assistance program established in chapter 249A.
  1 25    b.  Psychiatric physicians who provide consulting services to
  1 26 community mental health centers and hospital psychiatric units
  1 27 that are located in mental health professional shortage areas.
  1 28    c.  Physicians in a psychiatric residency program agreeing to
  1 29 provide services in a mental health professional shortage area
  1 30 for a minimum of five years.
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