217.3 - DUTIES OF COUNCIL.
217.3 DUTIES OF COUNCIL.
The council on human services shall:
1. Organize annually and select a chairperson and vice
chairperson.
2. Adopt and establish policy for the operation and conduct of
the department of human services, subject to any guidelines which may
be adopted by the general assembly, and the implementation of all
services and programs thereunder.
3. Report immediately to the governor any failure by the director
or any administrator of the department of human services to carry out
any of the policy decisions or directives of the council.
4. Approve the budget of the department of human services prior
to submission to the governor. Prior to approval of the budget, the
council shall publicize and hold a public hearing to provide
explanations and hear questions, opinions, and suggestions regarding
the budget. Invitations to the hearing shall be extended to the
governor, the governor-elect, the director of the department of
management, and other persons deemed by the council as integral to
the budget process. The budget materials submitted to the governor
shall include a review of options for revising the medical assistance
program made available by federal action or by actions implemented by
other states as identified by the department, the medical assistance
advisory council and the executive committee of the medical
assistance advisory council created in section 249A.4B, and by county
representatives. The review shall address what potential revisions
could be made in this state and how the changes would be beneficial
to Iowans.
5. Insure that all programs administered or services rendered by
the department directly to any citizen or through a local board of
welfare to any citizen are coordinated and integrated so that any
citizen does not receive a duplication of services from various
departments or local agencies that could be rendered by one
department or local agency. If the council finds that such is not
the case, it shall hear and determine which department or local
agency shall provide the needed service or services and enter an
order of their determination by resolution of the council which must
be concurred in by at least a majority of the members. Thereafter
such order or resolution of the council shall be obeyed by all state
departments and local agencies to which it is directed.
6. Adopt all necessary rules recommended by the director or
administrators of divisions hereinafter established prior to their
promulgation pursuant to chapter 17A.
7. Approve the establishment of any new division or
reorganization, consolidation or abolition of any established
division prior to the same becoming effective.
8. Recommend to the governor the names of individuals qualified
for the position of director of human services when a vacancy exists
in the office. Section History: Early Form
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 217.3] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 89 Acts, ch 283, § 18; 95 Acts, ch
205, §36; 98 Acts, ch 1155, §7; 2005 Acts, ch 120, §1
Referred to in § 225C.6, 249A.4B