Amend CSSB 1 in Article II of the bill by adding the following 
appropriately numbered rider following the appropriations to the 
Department of Health and Human Services:
	____.  Autism Services Study.  The Department of Health and 
Human Services shall conduct a study to determine the costs and 
benefits to this state of initiating a pilot program to provide 
services to adult persons with autism.  The study must identify:
		(1) the potential benefit to adult persons with autism 
of receiving services involving, behavioral counseling, 
employment, home-based care, living arrangements, and medical 
care;
		(2) the potential number of persons with autism the 
pilot program may serve;
		(3) which agency or agencies are appropriate to design 
or administer the pilot program;
		(4) which Medicaid waiver programs are appropriate to 
the pilot program;    
		(5) whether new Medicaid waiver programs may be 
required;                   
		(6) how other states provide services to adult persons 
with autism; and     
		(7) the administrative costs the state is likely to 
incur in designing and administering the pilot program.  Not later 
than September 1, 2011, the Department of Aging and Disabilities 
Services shall submit a report of the findings and conclusions of 
the study to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of 
the house of representatives, and the presiding officers of the 
standing committees of the senate and house of representatives with 
primary jurisdiction over the provision of services to persons with 
disabilities.