No. CS/CS/HB 565
Filed under Healthcare.
Agency for Persons with Disabilities ; Revises definition of term "developmental disability"; defines "Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome"; requires level 2 employment screening for all employees of residential facilities & adult day training programs; requires agency to contract with state university to develop & administer certain surveys; provides requirements for such surveys; requires state university to submit certain report to agency by specified date; requires agency to conduct public hearings on specified information; conduct or contract for gap analysis for specified purposes; identify core competencies & performance metrics & make recommendations for standardizing assessments; & submit certain report to Governor & Legislature by specified date.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDEvery employee of a licensed residential facility or adult day training program must now pass level 2 background screening, not just managers, supervisors, and staff with direct client access as under current law.
The bill adds Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome, a rare genetic condition linked to intellectual disability and overgrowth, to the list of conditions that count as a developmental disability, opening eligibility for services to people who have it.
A new section orders the disability agency to survey support coordinators, provider organizations, and clients' families on the quality of waiver support coordination, and to hold a public hearing on it in every service region.
Using that research, the agency must set core competencies and performance metrics for support coordinators and report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and Legislature by February 15, 2027.
AIBackground screening at these facilities previously reached managers, supervisors, and staff with client access. The bill drops that limit and requires level 2 screening for every employee, regardless of role or client contact.
AIThe bill adds this DNMT3A-linked genetic condition to the statutory list of developmental disabilities and defines it in detail, giving people diagnosed with it a path to the same disability-service eligibility as autism or Down syndrome.
AIA new section requires the agency to contract with a state university to design and run surveys of provider organizations, individual support coordinators, and iBudget clients' families on the quality of waiver support coordination.
AIUsing the survey and hearing results, the agency must identify core competencies and performance metrics for support coordinators and recommend how to standardize their assessment, reporting to the Governor and Legislature by February 15, 2027.
AIBeyond the surveys, the agency must separately gather input from waiver-program stakeholders and hold at least one publicly noticed hearing on support coordination quality in each of its service regions.
AIThe agency must conduct or contract for a gap analysis examining where waiver support coordinators are geographically located and how much caseload capacity exists across the state.