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Committee backs bill restoring option for out‑of‑home respite in unlicensed homes for waiver recipients
Summary
Senate File 446 would allow certain out-of-home respite for children and adults receiving disability waiver services to be provided in unlicensed residential settings under specified safeguards; the committee referred the bill to the Human Services Committee.
Senate File 446, a bill to allow out-of-home respite for children receiving services through the four disability waivers to be provided in unlicensed residential settings under specific safeguards, was recommended to pass and referred to the House-equivalent Human Services Committee by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Feb. 18, 2025.
Sponsor Senator Rasmussen said the change would restore a pre-2020 practice that allowed licensed 245D providers to deliver respite in unlicensed settings with case manager and…
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