Section 225C.7A. Mental health and disability regional services fund.

  1.  A mental health and disability regional services fund is created in the office of the treasurer of state under the authority of the department, which shall consist of the amounts appropriated to the fund by the general assembly for each fiscal year. Before completion of the department’s budget estimate as required by section 8.23, the director of human services, in consultation with the commission, shall determine and include in the estimate the amount, which in order to address the increase in the costs of providing services, should be appropriated to the fund for the succeeding fiscal year.

  2.  The department shall distribute the moneys appropriated from the fund to mental health and disability services regions for funding of disability services in accordance with performance-based contracts with the regions and in the manner provided in the appropriations. If the allocation methodology includes a population factor, the definition of “population” in section 331.388 shall be applied.

2012 Acts, ch 1120, §9, 20, 21