Committee hears bill to update residential care terminology, repeal outdated rate‑setting chapter

The House Human Services Committee opened a hearing on House Bill 1109 to revise statutory language governing residential care and services for people with developmental disabilities and to repeal an outdated chapter related to fee‑for‑service rate setting.

House Bill 1109 was introduced at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services to replace older terms such as “treatment or care center” with “provider agency” and to replace “resident” or “patient” with “individual” or “eligible individual,” the department said.

"Most of the changes in house bill 1109 involve updating the terminology from treatment or care center to provider agency and replacing resident or patient with individual or eligible individual," said Tina Bey, director of the developmental disability section at the Department of Health and Human…