Providing services to children on the waiting list for the Children's Long-term Support waiver programs and making an appropriation. (FE)

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under current law, the Children's Long-Term Support Home and Community-Based Medicaid waiver programs (CLTS waiver programs) provide funding through the Medical Assistance program to support services for children who are living at home or in the community and whose activities are limited as a result of a developmental disability, severe emotional disturbance, or physical disability. Beginning in the 2013-14 fiscal year, this bill requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to enroll in a CLTS waiver program and provide full benefits to 482 children who are on the waiting list for a CLTS waiver program on the effective date of this bill. The bill also requires DHS, in the 2013-14 fiscal year, to provide eight hours of services per month for six months of the year through a CLTS waiver program to 300 children who are on the waiting list for a CLTS program on the effective date of this bill.

Who's behind it

19 lawmakers are its authors⁠. All 19 are Democrats.

1 more lawmaker signed on in support⁠.

What it would cost

State agencies filed a cost estimate. Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

• Fiscal Estimate From DHS