Rates and rate floors modified for services involving disability and elderly waivers, customized living, nursing and intermediate care facilities, personal care assistance, home care, nonemergency medical transportation, and community first services and supports; provisions modified; residential settings closure prevention grant program established; and money appropriated.
Caregivers Stabilization Act of 2023
Disability waiver technology provisions modified.
Disability waiver technology provisions modifications
Human services; provisions modified relating to disability services, aging services, and substance use disorder services; Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Services Act modified; subminimum wages phased out; blood-borne pathogen provisions expanded to all state-operated treatment programs; and expired reports removed.
Nursing facility payment rates modified, elderly waiver rates modified, payment rates for customized living services provided under disability waivers modified, payment rates for home-delivered meals under disability waivers modified, and money appropriated.
Assisted living licensure settings expansion and settings exempt from assisted living licensure requirements modification
Settings subject to assisted living licensure expanded, and requirements for settings exempt from assisted living licensure modified.
Establishing competency and shift wage differential enhanced payment rates for personal care assistant and community first services and supports professionals; modifying use of enhanced rate revenue for workings; establishing temporary personal care assistance rate increase; appropriating money.
Child care assistance expanded, grants and rules regarding children's mental health expanded and modified, transition to community initiative modified, staff training requirements modified, covered transportation services modified, coverage of clinical care coordination modified, children's long-term stays in emergency room rules modified, rural family response and stabilization services pilot program established, and money appropriated.