249H.4 - SENIOR LIVING TRUST FUND -- CREATED -- APPROPRIATIONS. - Iowa Statutes

249H.4 SENIOR LIVING TRUST FUND -- CREATED -- APPROPRIATIONS. 1. A senior living trust fund is created in the state treasury under the authority of the department of human services. Moneys received through intergovernmental agreements for the senior living program and moneys received from sources, including grants, contributions, and participant payments, shall be deposited in the fund. 2. The department of human services, upon receipt of federal revenue on or after October 1, 1999, from public nursing facilities participating in the medical assistance program, shall deposit the federal revenue received in the trust fund, less a sum of five thousand dollars as an administration fee per participating public nursing facility. 3. Moneys deposited in the trust fund shall be used only for the purposes of the senior living program as specified in this chapter. 4. The trust fund shall be operated in accordance with the guidelines of the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services. The trust fund shall be separate from the general fund of the state and shall not be considered part of the general fund of the state. The moneys in the trust fund shall not be considered revenue of the state, but rather shall be funds of the senior living program. The moneys deposited in the trust fund are not subject to section 8.33 and shall not be transferred, used, obligated, appropriated, or otherwise encumbered, except to provide for the purposes of this chapter. Moneys in the trust fund may be used for cash flow purposes during a fiscal year provided that any moneys so allocated are returned to the trust fund by the end of that fiscal year. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys deposited in the trust fund shall be credited to the trust fund. 5. The department of human services shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to administer the trust fund and to establish procedures for participation by public nursing facilities in the intergovernmental transfer of funds to the senior living trust fund. 6. The director shall amend the medical assistance state plan to eliminate the mechanism to secure funds based on skilled nursing facility prospective payment methodologies under the medical assistance program and to terminate agreements entered into with public nursing facilities under this chapter, effective June 30, 2005.          Section History: Recent Form 2000 Acts, ch 1004, §4, 22, 23; 2000 Acts, ch 1232, §88, 95; 2002 Acts, ch 1050, § 26; 2002 Acts, 2nd Ex, ch 1001, §30, 52; 2005 Acts, ch 167, §34, 66; 2009 Acts, ch 182, §94 Referred to in § 249H.4A, 249H.5