Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: SF1158

Relating to human services; modifying certain provisions relating to continuing
care; redesigning home and community-based services, modifying health department
resident reimbursement classification assessment schedules; requiring a critical
access study; expanding board of social work licensure exemptions; expanding
certain duties of the commissioner of human services relating to the Senior
Linkage Line and the Disability Linkage Line; requiring preadmission screening
activities relating to nursing facility admissions, proving for exemptions and
emergency admissions; specifying screening requirements; providing for
preadmission screening payment; providing for priority for other grants;
providing for state waivers; providing for evaluations; requiring establishment
of certain demonstration projects; reducing the age or preadmission screening of
individuals; providing for the determination of institutional level of care;
providing for essential community supports grants; modifying and expanding
certain Medicaid waiver for elderly services provisions; providing for
individual community living support (ICLS); modifying and expanding home and
community-based services for older adults under seniors agenda for independent
living (SAIL) projects; providing for eldercare development partnerships;
expanding caregiver support and respite care projects; requiring the
commissioner to select and contract with core home and community-based services
providers for projects; providing for services for
persons with developmental
disabilities to reduce avoidable behavioral crisis
emergency room, psychiatric
inpatient hospitalizations, and commitments to
institutions; providing for home
and community-based services report card in cooperation with the commissioner of
health; modifying long-term care quality profiles for nursing facilities and
long-term care services providers; expanding home and community-based services
waivers for disabled persons; establishing community first services and supports
(CFSS) medical assistance state plan option; providing group residential housing
monthly rates supplementary service rate exemptions; expanding law enforcement
reporting requirement of vulnerable adults; repealing certain provisions
relating to federal grants to establish and maintain a single common entry point
for reporting maltreatment of a vulnerable adult, long-term care consultation
services and seniors agenda for independent
living (SAIL)
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