Oklahoma 2024 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB3844 Compare Versions

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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
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57	57	HOUSE BILL 3844 By: Pittman
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to respite care for advantage waiver
66	66	program; amending 56 O.S. 2021, Section 1017.2, which
67	67	relates to legislative findin gs in the Oklahoma
68	68	Choices for Long-Term Care Act; clarifying certain
69	69	respite care lengths; a nd providing an effective
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77	77	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF T HE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
78	78	SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 56 O.S. 2021, Se ction 1017.2, is
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80	80	Section 1017.2 The Legislature finds that:
81	81	1. Oklahoma has a successful home - and community-based services
82	82	program known as the ADvantage Waiver Program for the frail, elderly
83	83	and adults with physical disabili ties age twenty-one (21) and over
84	84	who do not have an intellectual disability nor a cognitive
85	85	impairment. The ADvantage Waiver Program provides the following
86	86	services: case management, trans itional case management, personal
87	87	care, advanced supportive/resto rative, skilled nursing - home health
88	88	setting, RN assessment evaluation, occupational therapy, physical
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140	140	therapy, respiratory therapy, speech/language therapy, adult day
141	141	health, personal care in adult day health, therapy in adult day
142	142	health, home-delivered meals, NF not less than thirty (30) and up to
143	143	sixty (60) days of nursing facility extended respite, in-home
144	144	respite, in-home extended respite, environmental modifications,
145	145	hospice, consumer-directed personal care assistant servi ces and
146	146	supports, assisted living, and specialized medical equipment and
147	147	supplies;
148	148	2. Many Oklahomans who could safely stay at home with cost-
149	149	effective home- and community-based services go into nursing
150	150	facilities the day assistance is needed because their eligibility
151	151	for nursing facility supports is "presumed" by the nursing facility,
152	152	while eligibility for home and community s upports can take weeks or
153	153	months. If their circumstances are such that they need immediate or
154	154	urgent care, they lose their choice to live and receive their
155	155	services at home. Once they are in a nursing facility, they may
156	156	lose their home or the supports th ey need to stay at home; and
157	157	3. The cost of serving Oklahomans who are in nursing facilities
158	158	when they could be living and receivi ng services at home is
159	159	significantly higher than the cost of serving them with home - and
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161	161	SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
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