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This docket lists all rule changes currently in process for the Department of Human Services, from the time notice of proposed rule making is submitted to the Governor's Office through the month when the rule change takes effect. The rule changes are sorted by their targeted effective date.
You can access the text of the rule change by clicking on the ARC number link. Most rule changes will have two ARC numbers assigned because they are published twice: once as a Notice of Intended Action and again when the rule is Adopted and Filed.
You may comment on a noticed rule until the date specified in the notice. See What's New for a list of rules currently posted for comment and instructions on submitting comments. See Public Comments for summaries of comments received on recently proposed rules and the Department's responses.
The Administrative Rules Review Committee normally considers rules in the month after they are published in the Iowa Administrative Bulletin. (The date listed with the ARC number is the publication date.) Click here to access the Committee's agenda in the Iowa Administrative Bulletin .
You may inspect the rule-making record, which contains all written submissions on the rule, the fiscal impact statement, any regulatory analysis or concise statement prepared, and any objections to the rule, at the DHS Bureau of Policy Analysis and Appeals, 5th Floor, 1305 E. Walnut Street, Des Moines, Iowa.
Subject and |
Status |
Date of |
Targeted |
| Financial support: ARC 8407B (12/16/09) Stop requiring verification of dependent care expenses for Food Assistance and Medicaid eligibility determination | Noticed | 2/15/09 | |
| Medical support: ARC 8446B (1/13/10), ARC 8208B (10/7/09) Change ICF/MR inflation factor for SFY 2010 and make technical updates | Adopted, Implemented | 12/9/09 | 2/17/10 |
| Financial support: ARC 8440B (1/13/10) Decrease personal needs allowance for residential care and family-life home supplements | Adopted | 12/9/09 | 3/1/10 |
| Financial support: ARC 8506B (2/10/10), ARC 8274B (11/4/09) Allow grace period for reinstatement of Child Care Assistance; clarify policy on application, effective date of assistance, protective care, and adverse actions | Adopted | 1/13/10 | 3/1/10 |
| Financial and medical support: ARC 8500B (2/10/10), ARC 8272B (11/4/09) Allow grace period for reinstatement of FIP, FA and Medicaid; exempt costs of producing unearned income; allow telephone interview on FIP applications and make interview optional on reviews | Adopted | 1/13/10 | 3/1/10 |
| Medical support: ARC 8279B (11/18/09) Allow reinstatement grace period for hawk-i | Noticed | 3/1/10 | |
| Medical support: ARC 8439B (1/13/10), ARC 8083B (8/26/09) Implement presumptive Medicaid eligibility for children | Adopted | 12/9/09 | 3/1/10 |
| Medical support: ARC 8443B (1/13/09), ARC 8220B (10/7/09) Clarify asset disregard under long-term care partnership program | Adopted | 12/9/09 | 3/1/10 |
| Medical support: ARC 8444B (1/13/10), ARC 8221B (10/7/09) Exempt some VA pension income for client participation; clarify deductions for trust and medical expenses; clarify transfers of assets via annuity or life estate; exempt transfers to disabled child | Adopted | 12/9/09 | 3/1/10 |
| Medical support: ARC 8478B (1/13/10), ARC 8112B (9/9/09) Implement hawk-i supplemental dental-only program | Adopted | 12/21/09 | 3/1/10 |
| Social services: ARC 8453B (1/13/10), ARC 8209B (10/7/09) Extend retention of rejected child abuse and CINA intake records | Adopted | 12/9/09 | 3/1/10 |
| Medical support: ARC 8504B (2/10/19), ARC 8247B (10/21/09) Require formal standardized assessment for remedial services for children | Adopted | 1/13/10 | 3/22/10 |
| Medical support: ARC 8505B (2/10/10), ARC 8256B (11/4/09) Require form for verification of insurance and clarify IowaCare citizenship requirements | Adopted | 1/13/10 | 4/1/10 |
| Financial support: ARC 8347B (12/2/09) Lower PROMISE JOBS mileage reimbursement due to Executive Order 19 | Noticed, Implemented | 4/14/10 | |
| Social services: ARC 8320B (12/2/09) Establish procedures for State Payment Program waiting list | Noticed, Implemented | 4/14/10 | |
| Social services: ARC 8438B (1/13/10) Allow disenrollment of members from the State Payment Program for fiscal reasons; clarify waiting lists, payment, and appeals due to Executive Order 19 | Noticed, Adopted |
4/14/10
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| Medical support: ARC 8479B (1/13/10) Extend period for verifying citizenship to 90 days; allow hawk-i eligibility while awaiting verification | Noticed | 5/1/10 | |
| Financial support: ARC 8460B (1/13/10) Rescind emergency assistance rules | Noticed | 5/12/10 | |
| Medical support: ARC 8345B (12/2/09) Reduce Medicaid payment rates due to Executive Order 19 | Noticed, Implemented | 5/12/10 | |
| Social services: ARC 8448B (1/13/10) Reduce supervised apartment living service rates by 5% due to Executive Order 19 | Noticed, Adopted |
5/12/10
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| Social services: ARC 8450B (1/13/10) Reduce foster group care rates by 5% due to Executive Order 19 | Noticed, Adopted |
5/12/10
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| Social services: ARC 8452B (1/13/10) Reduce foster family, adoptive subsidy, and guardianship subsidy maintenance payments and foster care clothing allowances, limit subsidy payment for nonrecurring expenses, and suspend special services payment in new agreements due to Executive Order 19 | Noticed, Adopted |
5/12/10
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| Medical support: ARC 8461B (1/13/10) Implement “express-lane” Medicaid eligibility for children |
Noticed
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6/1/10 | |
| Social services: ARC 8118B (9/9/09) Implement licensing fees for child care centers, require fingerprinting for national record checks, set fee for DHS record checks & minimum age for volunteers, require protocol on biting | Noticed | 6/1/10 | |
| Social services: ARC 8490B (1/27/10) Update foster group care rate allocation between Maintenance and service | Noticed | 6/1/10 | |
| Social services: ARC 8459B (1/13/10) Update procedures for purchasing child care resource and referral services | Noticed | 6/1/10 | |
| Social services: ARC 8183B (9/23/09) End guardianship subsidy waiver and start new subsidy program | Noticed | 6/1/10? | |
| Social services: ARC 8527B (2/10/10) Clarify juvenile detention reimbursement eligibility and procedures | Noticed | 7/1/10 |
Click here to view these rules as they were published in the Iowa Administrative Bulletin.