Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes appropriations from the opioid settlement fund in Iowa.

Highlights:

• Authorizes appropriations from the opioid settlement fund in Iowa, including directing 75% of funds to Iowa HHS and 25% to the Iowa attorney general’s office to use to combat and treat opioid addiction (Sec. ).

• Appropriates $29 million to 10 organizations, including (Sec. ):

• $3 million to support a recovery high school program in Story County to provide services to students statewide;

• $5 million to provide mobile recovery units across the state;

• $1.5 million to provide jail-based screening and assessment services in county jails across the state;

• $2 million for recovery housing services in Woodbury County to serve northwest Iowa;

• $2 million to provide local peer overdose responder services in four locations to provide services in emergency rooms, expected to be Black Hawk, Des Moines, Linn and Wapello counties and their surrounding areas;

• $4.5 million to provide grants for community-based recovery support service facilities in Black Hawk, Clinton, Linn, Polk and Pottawattamie Counties;

• $1.5 million for grants to establish recovery cafes in behavioral districts 5 (south central Iowa) and 7 (eastern Iowa);

• $1.5 million for grants to recovery respite facilities for women with children in Linn, Polk, Pottawattamie and Woodbury Counties.

• $3 million for a grant to a facility in Polk County to provide 24/7 detox and recovery services;

• $2 million for a grant to Scott County facility to provide community-based outpatient dual-diagnosis services; and

• Nonprofits could apply to HHS for grants from a $3 million pool to develop recovery housing in behavioral health districts that don't currently have any. Initial efforts would be focused on eastern and southeastern Iowa.

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect immediately and apply retroactively to July 1, 2024 (Sec. 4).

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