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Amend CSSB 1 in Article II of the bill by adding the following
appropriately numbered rider following the appropriations to the
Health and Human Services Commission (page II-91):
____. Study Regarding the Need for Community Support and
Residential Services for Individuals Suffering from Acquired Brain
Injury. (a) It is the intent of the legislature that, out of
general revenue funds appropriated above, the executive
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission conduct a
study, not later than September 1, 2010, regarding the need for a
system of community support and residential services for
individuals suffering from acquired brain injury. The study must,
at a minimum:
(1) evaluate current services and supports provided by
the state to persons suffering from acquired brain injury;
(2) assess the need in this state for community
support and residential services to persons suffering from acquired
brain injury;
(3) ascertain opportunities available to this state to
draw down federal funds for individuals with acquired brain injury
for whom the state currently provides services and supports through
general revenue funds; and
(4) determine the feasibility and cost-effectiveness
of implementing a system of community support and residential
services through either a Medicaid state plan amendment or medical
assistance waiver for persons with acquired brain injury.
(b) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human
Services Commission shall submit the results of the study described
above to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of
representatives, and the chairs of the Senate Committee on Health
and Human Services and the House Committee on Public Health.