2E Relating to human services; modifying continuing care provisions; changing a nursing home biennial legislative report due date; modifying the long term care facility definition to include licensed or registered residential settings providing home care services; requiring counties providing long term care consultation services and home and community based services to provide office telephone numbers and addresses; including hospice bill of rights under prohibition against discrimination or retaliation protection; authorizing the board on aging to conduct electronic meetings; making clarifying changes for personal care assistant services definitions, specifying personal care assistant training requirements, personal care provider responsibilities, employment prohibitions and supervision; modifying long term care consultation services for assessment and support planning, exemptions and emergency, payment withholding and reimbursements; modifying alternative care program nonmedical assistance recipients eligibility, restricting county use of funds to exclude copayments, deductibles and premiums; modifying case management services under medicaid waiver for elderly services, removing a requirement for the commissioner to modify the federal waiver, placing cost limits for elderly waiver applicants residing in nursing facilities under the case mix implementation system, specifying a conversion rate for nursing home to elderly waiver with consumer directed community support services, changing the assisted living service rate to the customized living service rate and specifying payment agreement requirements; changing county agency to lead agency; modifying nursing facility cost and statistical data audit requirements; repealing a board on aging reporting requirement on recommendations for local ombudsman funding methods
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