The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to
have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
Heaton of Henry called up for consideration House File 529, a bill
for an act directing the mental health and developmental disabilities
commission to make recommendations for redesigning the mental
health and developmental disabilities services system for adults and
children and providing an effective date, amended by the Senate, and
moved that the House concur in the following Senate amendment H-
1342:
H-1342
1 Amend House File 529, as passed by the House, as
2 follows:
3 1. Page 1, lines 9 and 10, by striking the words
4 "and children".
5 2. Page 2, by striking line 15 and inserting the
6 following:
7 "The commission shall include a process by which
8 funding follows the covered individual among the
9 options considered, including but not limited to the
10 following:"
11 3. By striking page 4, line 14, through page 5,
12 line 14, and inserting the following:
13 "4. ADDRESS THE LEGAL SETTLEMENT PROCESS.
14 The commission shall consider options for
15 addressing the deficiencies in the legal settlement
16 process currently used for determining governmental
17 financial liability for service costs. The options
18 considered may include but are not limited to
19 providing for a transition to a system that provides
20 for service access based upon an individual's
21 residency."

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