House File 449 - Reprinted




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN
                                     RESOURCES

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HF 263)
       (As Amended and Passed by the House March 12, 2015)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the development and initial implementation
  2    of an inpatient psychiatric bed tracking system by the
  3    department of human services.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    HF 449 (4) 86
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  1  1    Section 1.  INPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC BED TRACKING SYSTEM ==
  1  2 DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.  The department of human services
  1  3 shall expend the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or so
  1  4 much thereof as is necessary, for the fiscal year beginning
  1  5 July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016, to be used for the
  1  6 development and initial implementation of an inpatient
  1  7 psychiatric bed tracking system in accordance with this
  1  8 section.
  1  9    1.  In developing the requirements for procurement of the
  1 10 system, the department of human services shall engage the
  1 11 group of magistrates and hospital personnel that assisted the
  1 12 department in developing the hospital bed tracking system
  1 13 report submitted to the general assembly in December 2013,
  1 14 pursuant to 2013 Iowa Acts, chapter 130, section 56. The
  1 15 department shall also engage other interested representatives,
  1 16 including representatives of the regional mental health and
  1 17 disability services system, the  state mental health institutes,
  1 18 the Iowa behavioral health  association, the Iowa state
  1 19 sheriffs' and deputies' association, and the Iowa association
  1 20 of community providers.  The procedural issues addressed by the
  1 21 group shall include but are not limited to the responsibility
  1 22 for data entry and verification, timeliness of data entry,
  1 23 confidentiality  requirements associated with the data needed to
  1 24 ensure the  usefulness of the system, and key characteristics
  1 25 and capacity  information about the beds in the system.
  1 26    2.  The department shall base the procurement requirements
  1 27 on the recommendation option contained in the December 2013
  1 28 report that projected the lowest annual maintenance and
  1 29 operating costs rather than the other option.
  1 30    3.  Upon a court=ordered mental health commitment of an adult
  1 31 or a child, the clerk of the district court shall utilize the
  1 32 electronic tracking system, once in place, to enter information
  1 33 into the system relating to the court order, check the database
  1 34 for the availability of open inpatient psychiatric hospital
  1 35 beds, and, if available, reserve the inpatient psychiatric
  2  1 hospital bed in the facility or institution to which a patient
  2  2 who is the subject of the mental health commitment order should
  2  3 be assigned. Once reserved, the bed cannot be assigned to any
  2  4 other person.
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