Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF1447

4E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - DATA PRACTICES
Providing for the
use of personal home contact information in the event of an emergency or other
disruption affecting the continuity of operation of a government entity;
requiring private personnel data of state employees to be disclosed to the
department of administration for purposes of administering the workers'
compensation program; including human services applicant data in government
data; making public the identity data on certain persons with licensing
sanctions or denials under certain conditions; maintaining confidentiality for
reporters with complaints or alleged violations of licensing standards and
alleged maltreatment; making clarifying changes; prohibiting disclosure of
maltreatment or licensing violation reporter identities

ARTICLE 2 -
LICENSING

Modifying certain provisions governing the licensing of respiratory
therapists; defining and redefining certain terms; broadening certain general
requirements for licensure qualification purposes; modifying scope of practice
provisions; modifying certain protected titles and restrictions on use;
prohibiting unlicensed practice; modifying renewal requirements; renaming the
respiratory care practitioner advisory council to the respiratory care advisory
council; exempting certain licensed group residential facilities from department
of health food, beverage and lodging establishment regulations; modifying
department of human services day treatment time block requirements and removing
the requirement for children's day treatment services inclusion as an integrated
set of education, therapy and family interventions and modifying an availability
requirement; exempting YMCA, YWCA and JCC programs, certain private practice
professionally licensed chemical dependency and substance abuse counselor
activities, and certain accredited programs serving children age 33 months or
older operated by a nonpublic school from department of human services (DHS)
licensing requirements, specifying certain accreditation requirements, ensuring
processing of child care center licensure applications for excluded providers;
prohibiting licensing for persons with outstanding DHS fees; requiring license
holder electronic records maintenance; expanding denial of application to
controlling individuals and certain persons in the household, specifying time
limit for appeals; allowing commissioner revocation and suspension for sanctions
and permitting certain continuance; specifying parent directives contents and
clarifying requirements application for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in
licensed programs, specifying certain staff training and documentation
requirements; providing for day training and habilitation or supported
employment services programs, providing for programs with three-year
accreditation, providing for investigations of alleged maltreatment of minors or
vulnerable adults, requiring commissioner to submit a request to commission of
rehabilitation facilities to expand accreditation survey; prohibiting variances
for maximum allowable family child care license capacity; clarifying SIDS
training requirements; requiring license holders to provide commissioner notice
through the online background study system or via letter under certain
conditions, requiring multiple programs license holders to notify commissioner
regarding staffing changes upon closure of a program; clarifying and modifying
certain background studies requirements; modifying county agency background
study requirements and background studies pending completion; defining
disqualification based on an Alford Plea; modifying disqualification provisions;
adding criminal vehicular operation causing death to disqualification
conditions; allowing commissioner to grant a variance for licensed foster care
providers adopting certain persons requiring background studies; modifying child
foster care licensing consolidated reconsideration; modifying certain children's
therapeutic services provisions relating to the definition of day treatment
services for medical assistance (MA) purposes, provider entity certification and
clinical infrastructure requirements and certain service delivery criteria;
expanding general assistance (GA) standards for special needs recipients of home
and community-based services for relocation purposes; modifying the definition
of neglect; requiring both individuals and facility license holders to be held
responsible for maltreatment under certain conditions; clarifying department of
health responsibility for residential facilities federally certified as
intermediate care facilities serving persons with development disabilities;
repealing commissioner of human services background study fees

ARTICLE 3 -
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES LICENSING TECHNICAL

Making technical changes to
department of human services background studies on individuals, commissioner
conducted background studies and county agency conducted background studies and
disqualification from access; expanding the child protection background check
act to include independent contractors providing children's services to a
children's service provider
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