HB 2863-S - DIGEST
(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

Provides, upon receipt of a federal home and community-based care waiver and to the extent funding is appropriated for this purpose, intensive behavior support services may be provided by the department, directly or by contract, to children with developmental disabilities who have intense behaviors and their families.

Provides intensive behavior support services under the program authorized in this act shall be provided through a core team of highly trained individuals either directly or by contract.

Appropriates two million eight hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, from the general fund to the department of social and health services to serve up to one hundred children under this act.