1E Establishing a self directed supports option under medical assistance (MA); including self directed supports under covered services; defining self directed supports option; determining self directed supports eligibility and relationship to the eligibility to other services; clarifying covered and noncovered services under the self directed supports option; specifying certain assessment, plan and budget requirements; requiring commissioner of human services to establish quality assurance and risk management techniques; requiring participants to choose a fiscal support entity, specifying requirements of an eligible fiscal support entity; requiring the commissioner to consult with a consumer directed services stakeholder group for advice on policy, implementation and aspects of consumer and self-directed services providers; modifying and expanding the special needs supplemental aid standards under general assistance (GA); requiring the commissioner of human services to grant licenses with variances to certain nonresidential programs for youth with disabilities under a certain age during nonschool hours and requiring the commissioner to recommend modifications to existing licensure requirements to the legislature by a certain date; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services to provide the nonfederal Medicaid match for the assessment, self directed supports option plan development and administrative costs related to implementing and managing the self directed supports option, including quality assurance measures
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