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1 1 Section 1. PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION &endash; DEFINITION.
1 2 The mental health and mental retardation commission shall
1 3 adopt rules regarding the standards for providers of services
1 4 to persons with mental illness, mental retardation, and
1 5 developmental disabilities which define persons with mental
1 6 retardation to include all of the following criteria:
1 7 1. A person is presumed to be a person with mental
1 8 retardation if the person is tested and receives an
1 9 intelligence quotient of seventy or less.
1 10 2. A person who is tested and receives an intelligence
1 11 quotient which is greater than seventy is presumed not to be a
1 12 person with mental retardation.
1 13 3. The presumptions established under subsections 1 and 2
1 14 are rebuttable.
1 15 4. A person disputing the presumption under subsection 1
1 16 or 2 may, at the person's own expense, secure independent
1 17 intelligence quotient testing to rebut the presumption.
1 18 EXPLANATION
1 19 This bill directs the mental health and mental retardation
1 20 commission to adopt rules regarding the standards for
1 21 providers of services to persons with mental illness, mental
1 22 retardation, and developmental disabilities which define
1 23 persons with mental retardation. The bill provides parameters
1 24 for the defining of persons with mental retardation based upon
1 25 the person's intelligence quotient (IQ) level, and provides a
1 26 presumption that a person is a person with mental retardation
1 27 if the person's IQ level is 70 or less, and a presumption that
1 28 a person is not a person with mental retardation if the
1 29 person's IQ level is greater than 70. The bill provides that
1 30 the presumptions are rebuttable and that a person disputing
1 31 either presumption may, at the person's own expense, secure
1 32 independent IQ testing to rebut the presumption.
1 33 LSB 2602HC 76
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