Senate Bill 346

Relating to: increasing funding for services under the family support program and the respite care program; increasing the daily reimbursement rate for the community integration program for persons with mental retardation; providing funding for medical assistance home and community-based services for persons with developmental disabilities who are on waiting lists for services; requiring the department of health and family services to establish criteria for distribution of this funding and to develop a plan to eliminate waiting lists for services for persons with developmental disabilities by the end of state fiscal year 2004-05; requiring the council on developmental disabilities to evaluate, and report to the legislature, the number of persons with developmental disabilities on waiting lists for services at the end of each calendar year; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and making appropriations. relating to: increasing funding for services under the family support program and the respite care program; increasing the daily reimbursement rate for the community integration program for persons with mental retardation; providing funding for medical assistance home and community-based services for persons with developmental disabilities who are on waiting lists for services; requiring the department of health and family services to establish criteria for distribution of this funding and to develop a plan to eliminate waiting lists for services for persons with developmental disabilities by the end of state fiscal year 2004-05; requiring the council on developmental disabilities to evaluate, and report to the legislature, the number of persons with developmental disabilities on waiting lists for services at the end of each calendar year; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and making appropriations.