135.175 - HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE SUPPORT INITIATIVE -- WORKFORCE SHORTAGE FUND -- ACCOUNTS -- REPEAL.
135.175 HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE SUPPORT INITIATIVE --
WORKFORCE SHORTAGE FUND -- ACCOUNTS -- REPEAL.
1. a. A health care workforce support initiative is
established to provide for the coordination and support of various
efforts to address the health care workforce shortage in this state.
This initiative shall include the medical residency training state
matching grants program created in section 135.176, the health care
professional and nursing workforce shortage initiative created in
sections 261.128 and 261.129, the safety net provider recruitment and
retention initiatives program created in section 135.153A, health
care workforce shortage national initiatives, and the physician
assistant mental health fellowship program created in section
135.177.
b. A health care workforce shortage fund is created in the
state treasury as a separate fund under the control of the
department, in cooperation with the entities identified in this
section as having control over the accounts within the fund. The
fund and the accounts within the fund shall be controlled and managed
in a manner consistent with the principles specified and the
strategic plan developed pursuant to sections 135.163 and 135.164.
2. The fund and the accounts within the fund shall consist of
moneys appropriated from the general fund of the state for the
purposes of the fund or the accounts within the fund; moneys received
from the federal government for the purposes of addressing the health
care workforce shortage; contributions, grants, and other moneys from
communities and health care employers; and moneys from any other
public or private source available.
3. The department and any entity identified in this section as
having control over any of the accounts within the fund, may receive
contributions, grants, and in-kind contributions to support the
purposes of the fund and the accounts within the fund.
4. The fund and the accounts within the 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 fund and the
accounts within the fund shall not be considered revenue of the
state, but rather shall be moneys of the fund or the accounts. The
moneys in the fund and the accounts within the 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 section. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection
2, interest or earnings on moneys deposited in the fund shall be
credited to the fund and the accounts within the fund.
5. The fund shall consist of the following accounts:
a. The medical residency training account. The medical
residency training account shall be under the control of the
department and the moneys in the account shall be used for the
purposes of the medical residency training state matching grants
program as specified in section 135.176. Moneys in the account shall
consist of moneys appropriated or allocated for deposit in or
received by the fund or the account and specifically dedicated to the
medical residency training state matching grants program or account
for the purposes of such account.
b. The health care professional and nurse workforce shortage
initiative account. The health care professional and nurse workforce
shortage initiative account shall be under the control of the college
student aid commission created in section 261.1 and the moneys in the
account shall be used for the purposes of the health care
professional incentive payment program and the nurse workforce
shortage initiative as specified in sections 261.128 and 261.129.
Moneys in the account shall consist of moneys appropriated or
allocated for deposit in or received by the fund or the account and
specifically dedicated to the health care professional and nurse
workforce shortage initiative or the account for the purposes of the
account.
c. The safety net provider network workforce shortage
account. The safety net provider network workforce shortage account
shall be under the control of the governing group of the Iowa
collaborative safety net provider network created in section 135.153
and the moneys in the account shall be used for the purposes of the
safety net provider recruitment and retention initiatives program as
specified in section 135.153A. Moneys in the account shall consist
of moneys appropriated or allocated for deposit in or received by the
fund or the account and specifically dedicated to the safety net
provider recruitment and retention initiatives program or the account
for the purposes of the account.
d. The health care workforce shortage national initiatives
account. The health care workforce shortage national initiatives
account shall be under the control of the state entity identified for
receipt of the federal funds by the federal government entity through
which the federal funding is available for a specified health care
workforce shortage initiative. Moneys in the account shall consist
of moneys appropriated or allocated for deposit in or received by the
fund or the account and specifically dedicated to health care
workforce shortage national initiatives or the account and for a
specified health care workforce shortage initiative.
e. The physician assistant mental health fellowship program
account. The physician assistant mental health fellowship program
account shall be under the control of the department and the moneys
in the account shall be used for the purposes of the physician
assistant mental health fellowship program as specified in section
135.177. Moneys in the account shall consist of moneys appropriated
or allocated for deposit in or received by the fund or the account
and specifically dedicated to the physician assistant mental health
fellowship program or the account for the purposes of the account.
6. a. Moneys in the fund and the accounts in the fund shall
only be appropriated in a manner consistent with the principles
specified and the strategic plan developed pursuant to sections
135.163 and 135.164 to support the medical residency training state
matching grants program, the health care professional incentive
payment program, the nurse educator incentive payment and nursing
faculty fellowship programs, the safety net recruitment and retention
initiatives program, for national health care workforce shortage
initiatives, for the physician assistant mental health fellowship
program, and to provide funding for state health care workforce
shortage programs as provided in this section.
b. State programs that may receive funding from the fund and
the accounts in the fund, if specifically designated for the purpose
of drawing down federal funding, are the primary care recruitment and
retention endeavor (PRIMECARRE), the Iowa affiliate of the national
rural recruitment and retention network, the primary care office
shortage designation program, the state office of rural health, and
the Iowa health workforce center, administered through the bureau of
health care access of the department of public health; the area
health education centers programs at Des Moines university --
osteopathic medical center and the university of Iowa; the Iowa
collaborative safety net provider network established pursuant to
section 135.153; any entity identified by the federal government
entity through which federal funding for a specified health care
workforce shortage initiative is received; and a program developed in
accordance with the strategic plan developed by the department of
public health in accordance with sections 135.163 and 135.164.
c. State appropriations to the fund shall be allocated in
equal amounts to each of the accounts within the fund, unless
otherwise specified in the appropriation or allocation. Any federal
funding received for the purposes of addressing state health care
workforce shortages shall be deposited in the health care workforce
shortage national initiatives account, unless otherwise specified by
the source of the funds, and shall be used as required by the source
of the funds. If use of the federal funding is not designated,
twenty-five percent of such funding shall be deposited in the safety
net provider network workforce shortage account to be used for the
purposes of the account and the remainder of the funds shall be used
in accordance with the strategic plan developed by the department of
public health in accordance with sections 135.163 and 135.164, or to
address workforce shortages as otherwise designated by the department
of public health. Other sources of funding shall be deposited in the
fund or account and used as specified by the source of the funding.
7. No more than five percent of the moneys in any of the accounts
within the fund, not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars in each
account, shall be used for administrative purposes, unless otherwise
provided by the appropriation, allocation, or source of the funds.
8. The department, in cooperation with the entities identified in
this section as having control over any of the accounts within the
fund, shall submit an annual report to the governor and the general
assembly regarding the status of the health care workforce support
initiative, including the balance remaining in and appropriations
from the health care workforce shortage fund and the accounts within
the fund.
9. This section is repealed June 30, 2014. Section History: Recent Form
2009 Acts, ch 118, §45, 54
Referred to in § 135.153A, 135.176, 135.177, 261.128, 261.129 Footnotes
Implementation of section conditioned upon availability of
funding; 2009 Acts, ch 118, §54