GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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SENATE BILL 198
Government Performance Audit Select Committee Substitute Adopted 4/1/93

Short Title:  GPAC/Transition ICF/MR Res.	(Public)
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Referred to: Appropriations. 

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February 17, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE TO TRANSITION INAPPROPRIATELY PLACED RESIDENTS OF INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED TO HOME- AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The General Assembly finds that North Carolina continues to admit a significant number of individuals to State-operated intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded (ICFs/MR), while most other states are moving to deinstitutionalize the mentally retarded and that there are approximately 170 individuals inappropriately placed in ICFs/MR settings.
Sec. 2.  Effective July 1, 1995, the Department of Human Resources shall ensure that the individuals inappropriately placed in ICFs/MR are transitioned to home- and community-based settings, where they will receive services in a more appropriate setting.  The process of transition shall include:
(1)	Ensuring that stringent criteria will be applied so that the excess capacity in ICFs/MR created by the transition is not refilled inappropriately again; and
(2)	Consideration of a capital reimbursement system to ensure that capital costs, which could be reallocated among remaining residents, are not reimbursed.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.