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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
HOUSE BILL 2716 By: Hefner
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to poor persons; requiring Department
of Human Services to report certain information ;
requiring Department to publish ce rtain information
on website; providing for codification; and providing
an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Stat utes as Section 1020.1 of Title 56, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Department of Human Services shall, by January 1 of each
year, report the following information on the Department’s Internet
website, which shall be accessible to the public, and to the
President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives:
1. Any payments made to providers in the prior fiscal year for
home- and community-based services for individuals with intellectual
disabilities ; and
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2. A strategic plan for serving more individuals with
intellectual disabilities through home- and community-based services
including goals and progress tow ard achieving such goals.
B. The Department shall, by the fifth day of each month,
publish on the Department ’s website, which shall be accessible to
the public, the following information:
1. The number of individual s with intellectual disabilitie s
currently receiving home- and community-based services;
2. Services provided to individuals with intellectual
disabilities through home- and community-based services including
which waiver each individual received for the majority of the m onth;
3. Demographic information on individuals waiting to receive
home- and community-based services for individuals with intellectual
disabilities including, but not limited to, age, gender, location ,
and whether or not they are currently receiving benefits or supports
including, but not limited to Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
(TANF), and other major state or federal assistance programs;
4. The number of applicants who began receiving home- and
community-based services for individuals with intellectual
disabilities during the assessment period;
5. Any relevant trends in data relating to individuals waiting
to receive home- and community-based services;
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6. The frequency of contact between the Department and
applicants and the mode of contact;
7. Resource gaps by type and by geographic area;
8. Resource or community supports and resources in need of
expansion;
9. The number of individ uals with intellectual disabilities who
stopped receiving services in the prior month including:
a. the number of individuals removed from each home- and
community-based services waiver for individuals with
intellectual disabilitie s,
b. which waiver the individual was receiving at the time
of removal,
c. the reasons for removal and number of individuals
removed for each reason, and
d. how many individuals were removed within one (1) year
of beginning receipt of services, the reasons for
removal, and the number of individuals removed for
each reason; and
10. Total expenditures of home- and community-based services
for individuals with intellectual disabilities by month and year to
date, categorized by waiver.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
59-1-6755 CMA 01/16/23