Bill Text: IA SF2046 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act appropriating funds for a supported employment provider rate increase, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (See SF 2101.)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-03 - Returned to committee. [SF2046 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF2046-Introduced.html

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Senate File 2046 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  RAGAN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act appropriating funds for a supported employment provider
  2    rate increase, and including effective date and retroactive
  3    applicability provisions.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  2015 Iowa Acts, chapter 137, section 29,
  1  2 subsection 1, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1  3    NEW PARAGRAPH.  t.  Beginning January 1, 2016, the
  1  4 reimbursement rates for providers of supported employment under
  1  5 the medical assistance program shall be increased by 20 percent
  1  6 over the rates in effect on June 30, 2015.
  1  7    Sec. 2.  2015 Iowa Acts, chapter 137, section 149, subsection
  1  8 1, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1  9    NEW PARAGRAPH.  t.  For the fiscal year beginning July
  1 10 1, 2016, the reimbursement rates for providers of supported
  1 11 employment under the medical assistance program shall remain at
  1 12 the rates in effect on June 30, 2016.
  1 13    Sec. 3.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 14 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 15    Sec. 4.  RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies
  1 16 retroactively to July 1, 2015.
  1 17                           EXPLANATION
  1 18 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 19 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 20    This bill provides for an increase in the reimbursement
  1 21 rates for providers of supported employment under the medical
  1 22 assistance program for FY 2015=2016, of 20 percent over the
  1 23 rates in effect on June 30, 2015. The bill also provides that
  1 24 these reimbursement rates for FY 2016=2017 would remain at the
  1 25 increased rates.
  1 26    The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively
  1 27 applicable to July 1, 2015.
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