AB1038,75,13 35. Allowing home health agencies to perform certifications, initial assessments, and determine homebound status remotely or by record review.

AB1038,75,19 36. Waiving life safety codes for intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities under 42 CFR 483.70 and for hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, critical access hospitals and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities relating to fire alarm system maintenance and testing, automatic sprinkler and standpipe system inspection, testing, and maintenance, and inspection and maintenance of portable fire extinguishers.

AB1038,75,21 37. Relating to the home and community-based waiver programs of Family Care, IRIS, and Children's Long-Term Supports, any of the following:

AB1038,75,24 a. Allowing all waiver services and administrative requirements that that can be provided with the same functional equivalency of face-to-face services to occur remotely.

AB1038,76,2 b. Removing the requirement to complete a 6-month progress report to reauthorize prevocational service.

AB1038,76,4 c. Removing the limitation that quotes from at least 3 providers must be obtained and submitted for home modifications.

AB1038,76,6 d. Removing the limitation preventing supportive home care from being provided in adult family homes and residential care apartment complexes.

AB1038,76,8 e. Removing the limitation preventing personal or nursing services for recipients in residential care apartment complexes.

AB1038,76,10 f. Removing the limitation that participants cannot receive other waiver services on the same day as receiving respite care.

AB1038,76,12 g. Allowing adult day service providers, prevocational providers, and supported employment providers to provide services in alternate settings.

AB1038,76,15 h. Allowing up to 3 meals per day for home delivered meals for Family Care and IRIS program enrollees and adding home delivered meals as a benefit in the Children's Long-Term Supports waiver.

AB1038,76,17 i. Removing the limitation on using moneys to relocate individuals from an institution or family home to an independent living arrangement.

AB1038,76,19 j. Allowing any individual with an intellectual or developmental disability to reside in a community-based residential facility with greater than 8 beds.

AB1038,76,22 k. Modifying the scope of the child care benefit to allow for the provision of child care payments for children under the age of 12 in the program for direct care workers and medical workers who need access to child care during the emergency.

AB1038,76,24 l. Allowing for all home and community-based waiver services to be provided in temporary settings.

AB1038,77,2 m. Allowing home and community-based waiver services to be provided temporarily in an acute care hospital or in a short-term institutional stay.

AB1038,77,4 n. Allowing payment for home and community-based waiver services provided in settings outside this state.

AB1038,77,6 o. Allowing general retailers to provide assistive technology or communication aids.

AB1038,77,8 p. Allowing providers certified or licensed in other states or enrolled in the Medicare program to perform the same or comparable services in this state.

AB1038,77,9 q. Delaying provider licensing or certification reviews.

AB1038,77,11 r. Allowing the department of health services to waive provider qualifications as necessary to increase the pool of available providers.

AB1038,77,12 s. Allowing 4-year background checks to be delayed.

AB1038,77,14 t. Expanding transportation providers to include individual and transportation network companies.

AB1038,77,15 u. Allowing noncertified individuals to provide home delivered meals.

AB1038,77,16 v. Allowing nursing students to provide allowable nursing services.

AB1038,77,19 w. Allowing parents to be paid caregivers for their minor children in the Children's Long-Term Supports program when providing a service that would otherwise have been performed and paid for by a provider.

AB1038,77,20 x. Allowing for qualified individuals to provide training to unpaid caregivers.

AB1038,77,21 y. Waiving choice of provider requirements.

AB1038,77,23 z. Waiving the managed care network adequacy requirements under 42 CFR 438.68 and 438.207.