SB932,76,19 18j. Allowing any individual with an intellectual or developmental disability to
19reside in a community-based residential facility with greater than 8 beds.
SB932,76,22 20k. Modifying the scope of the child care benefit to allow for the provision of child
21care payments for children under the age of 12 in the program for direct care workers
22and medical workers who need access to child care during the emergency.
SB932,76,24 23l. Allowing for all home and community-based waiver services to be provided
24in temporary settings.
SB932,77,2
1m. Allowing home and community-based waiver services to be provided
2temporarily in an acute care hospital or in a short-term institutional stay.
SB932,77,4 3n. Allowing payment for home and community-based waiver services provided
4in settings outside this state.
SB932,77,6 5o. Allowing general retailers to provide assistive technology or communication
6aids.
SB932,77,8 7p. Allowing providers certified or licensed in other states or enrolled in the
8Medicare program to perform the same or comparable services in this state.
SB932,77,9 9q. Delaying provider licensing or certification reviews.
SB932,77,11 10r. Allowing the department of health services to waive provider qualifications
11as necessary to increase the pool of available providers.
SB932,77,12 12s. Allowing 4-year background checks to be delayed.
SB932,77,14 13t. Expanding transportation providers to include individual and
14transportation network companies.
SB932,77,15 15u. Allowing noncertified individuals to provide home delivered meals.
SB932,77,16 16v. Allowing nursing students to provide allowable nursing services.
SB932,77,19 17w. Allowing parents to be paid caregivers for their minor children in the
18Children's Long-Term Supports program when providing a service that would
19otherwise have been performed and paid for by a provider.
SB932,77,20 20x. Allowing for qualified individuals to provide training to unpaid caregivers.
SB932,77,21 21y. Waiving choice of provider requirements.
SB932,77,23 22z. Waiving the managed care network adequacy requirements under 42 CFR
23438.68
and 438.207.
SB932,77,2524 za. Waiving requirements to complete initial and required periodic
25credentialing of network providers.
SB932,78,1
1zb. Adding a verbal and electronic method to signing required documents.
SB932,78,42 zc. Allowing the option to conduct evaluations, assessments, and
3person-centered service planning meetings virtually or remotely in lieu of
4face-to-face meetings.
SB932,78,55 zd. Allowing the lessening of prior approval or authorization requirements.
SB932,78,76 ze. Allowing for data entry of incidents into the incident reporting system
7outside of typical timeframes.
SB932,78,98 zf. Waiving the requirement to distribute member-centered plans to essential
9providers.
SB932,78,1310 zg. Allowing the department of health services to draw federal financing match
11for payments, such as hardship or supplemental payments, to stabilize and retain
12providers who suffer extreme disruptions to their standard business model or
13revenue streams as a result of the 2019 novel coronavirus.
SB932,78,1514 zh. Allowing the department of health services to waive participant liability for
15room and board when temporarily sheltered at noncertified facilities.
SB932,78,1716 zi. Allowing payment for home and community-based waiver services that are
17not documented in the recipient's plan.
SB932,78,2218 zj. Allowing managed care enrollees to proceed almost immediately to a state
19fair hearing without having a managed care plan resolve the appeal first by
20permitting the department of health services to modify the timeline for managed
21care plans to resolve appeals to one day so the impacted appeals satisfy the
22exhaustion requirements and give enrollees more time to request a fair hearing.
SB932,78,2423 zk. Waiving public notice requirements that would otherwise be applicable to
24waiver changes.
SB932,79,2
1zl. Modifying the tribal consultation timelines to allow for consultation at the
2next future tribal health directors meeting.