House Human Services advances recovery-residence changes, adds grievance process and written-exit notice

The House Human Services Committee on Thursday reviewed draft 1.1 of S.157, a bill revising certification standards for recovery residences and adding new requirements for immediate exits and transfers. Committee Chair opened the session by saying the committee would both mark up S.157 and hear a separate witness on a forensic-facility bill before a formal walkthrough of that measure.

Katie McGlenn of the Office of Legislative Council presented the draft and summarized the changes. She said the bill keeps a list of specific behaviors that could trigger immediate exit or transfer from a certified recovery residence, including violating a residence substance-use policy, repeatedly refusing participation in services, criminal charges, theft, materially interfering with others’ recovery, and acts of violence that threaten safety.

The draft also adds a new requirement…