Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF0963

E Relating to human services; expanding consumer support program services for
individuals with and families of individuals with functional limitations,
requiring the commissioner of human services to contract with counties or other
entities to provide consumer support grant services to residents of
nonparticipating counties, specifying certain notice requirements and expanding
procedures and criteria requirements to contracted agencies; extending a certain
home care services hardship waiver eligibility provision under medical
assistance (MA); clarifying the requirement for the commissioner to allocate
resources for the home and community based waiver for persons with mental
retardation or related conditions; prohibiting the commissioner of finance from
reducing the spending forecast for the coming biennium under certain home and
community based waiver services waiting list conditions, requiring the
commissioner of human services to use funds resulting from a projected spending
reduction to serve persons with developmental disabilities;requiring the
commissioner to submit to the federal health care financing administration by a
certain date an amendment to the home and community based waiver for the
availability of consumer directed community support services in every county by
a certain date; changing the date for annual reporting by the commissioner on
county and state use of available resources for the waiver; modifying the legal
representative participation exception(je, ja)