Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF1724

4E Modifying certain human services licensing provisions; modifying welfare data
use by authorizing certain disclosures to analyze public assistance employment
services and program utilization; excluding from human services licensure
requirements certain legal adoption homes providing programs for persons placed
by a county; permitting residential programs to serve continued stay residents
up to a certain age; requiring license holders to develop program policies and
procedures necessary to maintain compliance with licensing requirements and
requiring license holders upon request to cooperate with state and local
government disaster planning agencies working to prepare for or react to
pandemic outbreak emergencies; modifying conditional license and fine contested
case hearing requirements; including actions of other individuals or conditions
in a program as a cause for immediate license holder suspension through an
expedited hearing; allowing license suspension, revocation or fine under
condition of controlling individuals and individuals subject to background
studies having disqualifications; requiring license holders appealing more than
one licensing action or sanction to specify actions or sanctions being appealed;
restricting maltreatment of minors and vulnerable adults determination,
disqualification and reconsiderations; permitting consolidation into a contested
case hearing under certain conditions, modifying hearing requirements;
clarifying set aside for disqualifications and child care center aids experience
requirements; authorizing county agencies to charge a fee to a corporate
applicant or license holder to recover the costs of background studies and
licensing requirements for adult foster care and child foster care; requiring a
license holder requesting a variance to utilize technology as a component of a
plan for alternative overnight supervision to request review by the commissioner
in the absence of a county recommendation; requiring placement of infants on
back by license holders for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) prevention and
requiring foster care providers and licensed chemical dependency treatment
programs, SIDS and shaken baby syndrome instruction documentation; specifying a
certain date for child passenger restraint systems training completion for
licensed providers; specifying training requirements for child care centers and
family child care providers; modifying vulnerable adult license holder
requirements for maltreatment corrective actions and prevention plans; requiring
license holder determination of vulnerable adult status; specifying child care
license holder internal review and corrective action requirements for findings
of maltreatment of minors; defining conviction under human services background
studies to include guilty pleas and convictions; authorizing the commissioner to
request additional information for background studies and compliance failure or
refusal constituting disqualification; clarifying background study requirements
for license holders with multiple facilities licensed by multiple state
agencies; expanding background study individual disqualification from direct
contact findings; modifying background study information requirements for county
and private agencies, allowing county agencies to accept commissioner background
study results for certain educational programs, making technical changes,
expanding and modifying permanent and temporary disqualification conditions to
include certain crimes; authorizing the commissioner to immediately remove
individuals from program positions, expanding disqualification conditions to
persons with access to service recipients; modifying conditions of
reconsideration for disqualifying maltreatment determinations, conditions for
disqualification set aside consideration, fair hearing procedure for
disqualifications not set aside, license holder appeal procedure and notice
requirements for set aside or variance; authorizing the commissioner of revenue
to disclose tax data to the commissioner of human services to verify income for
parental contribution calculation for children with disabilities services;
modifying the physical abuse definition to include certain accidental injury
under maltreatment of minors reporting requirements; clarifying determination of
parties responsible for maltreatment of minors and vulnerable adult injuries,
specifying conditions for maltreatment of minors and vulnerable adults injuries
determinations and disqualification reconsiderations, authorizing counties to
certify adult foster care license holders to provide foster care services to
individuals with developmental disabilities under certain conditions; requiring
the commissioner of human services to seek a federal amendment to the home and
community based services waiver for individuals with developmental disabilities
to allow medicaid reimbursement for supported living services to a related
individual under certain conditions; clarifying the definition of vulnerable
adult neglect; requiring the collateral consequences committee to conduct a
review of human services background study provisions; repealing department of
human services in service training, child care providers cultural dynamics and
disabilities training and child care center in service training, first aid and
cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and human services background studies
individual previously studied provisions
(Ch. 112, 2007)