H.B. No. 5001
Session Year 2023
 


AN ACT CONCERNING RESOURCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL OR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY.

To (1) evaluate and implement best practices for expanding employment and transportation opportunities for persons with an intellectual or developmental disability, (2) ameliorate waiting lists for Medicaid waiver program services for such persons, (3) establish an emergency services alert system to help locate such persons when they are reported missing, (4) provide funding for a voluntary registration system for such persons for public safety purposes, (5) increase income and asset limits for medical assistance for such persons, (6) evaluate changing a statutory definition associated with such persons and Intelligence Quotient criteria for such persons, (7) establish a career pipeline for behavioral health and human services positions to ensure an adequate number of providers to serve such persons, and (8) establish a bill of rights for such persons.

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Human Services Committee

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Bill History

 Date Action Taken
 3/22/2023(LCO)Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
 3/22/2023(HS)Joint Favorable Substitute Change of Reference Appropriations
 3/3/2023Public Hearing 03/09
 3/2/2023Referred to Joint Committee on Human Services
 3/1/2023Drafted by Committee
 1/19/2023(HS)Vote to Draft
 1/4/2023Referred to Joint Committee on Human Services

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