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Committee recommends Bill 12-26 to align provider payment language with practice, remove outdated 125% metric
Summary
Bill 12-26 would remove a statutory annual recommendation tied to a 125% wage metric and codify that county supplements go to providers who serve Montgomery County residents; staff said the change reflects current practice and provides flexibility amid shifting state rate structures.
The Montgomery County Health and Human Services Committee voted to recommend Bill 12-26, a technical and policy cleanup measure intended to align county code with current provider payment practices for services to people with developmental disabilities.
Council staff member Ms. Wellings told the committee the bill, introduced on 02/10/2026 at the county executive's request, would remove a statutory requirement that DHHS submit an annual recommendation based on an obsolete 125% wage factor and would instead codify that service providers receiving county supplemental payments must provide services to Montgomery County residents. A public hearing on the measure occurred on March 10, staff said.
Dr. Patrice McGee, director of Aging and Disability Services, and Kim Mayo of the Community Support Network explained that INTERACT, the consortium of supplement participants, formulates and presents the annual budget request directly to the county executive and that DHHS does not independently set that annual ask. Ms. Mayo described the history of the 125% requirement (originating in Bill 3,517) and noted that state rate structures and the departure from the 125% factor have made the statutory metric out of date.
Committee members asked what accountability or transparency would replace the removed reporting language. Ms. Mayo said the department performs a wage survey, tracks turnover, and compiles a customer satisfaction survey and that DHHS can provide those data to the council on request. The committee approved the recommendation to forward Bill 12-26 to the full council by voice/hand vote; the transcript records no roll-call tally.
