Summary of Original Version

Create the 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services Waiver Redesign Task Force to review previous waiver redesign efforts undertaken by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and to develop recommendations to ensure the quality and stability of 1915(c) waiver services in Kentucky; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2021 and 2022 interims; require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.

Summary of Amendment: House Committee Substitute 1

Summary Retain original provisions; require the Model II waiver service provider to be submitted by the Kentucky Nurses Association; and add the board chair of the Kentucky Chapter of the Brain Injury Association of America and the executive director of the Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities to the task force membership.

Summary of Amendment: House Floor Amendment 1 -- S. Riley

Summary Add the executive director of LeadingAge Kentucky to the membership of the task force; encourage the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the Department for Medicaid Services to postpone waiver service rate decreases.