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By Rod Boshart, Special to the Globe Gazette DES MOINES — The Iowa Senate on Tuesday evening passed a massive overhaul of Iowa’s mental-health services delivery system that is currently funded by local property taxes. Senators voted 30-17 along party lines to revamp mental-health financing by shifting the cost of regional services from Iowa’s 99 counties to the state and phasing out the $152 million “backfill&” to cities, counties and schools that was part of a 2013 compromise to replace local revenue they lost when commercial and industrial property tax rates were cut by 10 percent. “We were elected here to do bold changes, bring big ideas and make the state of Iowa a better place. This bill today accomplishes some of those goals,” said Sen. Dan Dawson, a Council Bluffs Republican who managed Senate File 587.

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