Relates to requiring the office for people with developmental disabilities to issue a residential request list and placement report

Showing the cosponsors who are on Agora, A to Z. The official record may list more.

• Democratic4
• Republican2

This bill has cosponsors from more than one party.

Shown in neutral colors by design; Agora is non-partisan.

◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Leroy Comrie says this is needed

The waiting list for persons with intellectual, and other developmental disabilities who require out-of-home residential care continues to be of great concern. Many persons remaining at home are being cared for by parents or other caregivers who themselves are acquiring age-related disabilities. This can be extremely problematic, especially when indi- viduals with disabilities themselves are aging. In fact, in February OPITDD's "Task Force on Aging" noted that a total of 27,211 persons with developmental disabilities over age 30 continue to live at home. Cf these 27,211 people statewide, persons living at home ages 60 to 65 numbered 1,871; ages 70-75 numbered 581; and, age 80 numbered 320. Currently, it is not clear how many of these individuals require out of home placement. More importantly, critical information on the exact size and needs of the statewide waiting list is not readily available making it impossible for policy makers to plan and budget accordingly. Further- more, placement activity appears highly sporadic and hard to track. Placement plans seem as if they are continually changing. Increasingly, parents who had previously been led to believe that they would have a placement for their child find that this is no longer true. This has left thousands of parents and families in a state of enormous uncertainty and anxiety regarding the status of their child or, loved one's current or future placement. This bill will give them critical information. It will also give the Legislature and others with an inter- est in development policy information critical to enable them to do their jobs.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.