Bill Text: CA SB982 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Department of Developmental Services: developmental centers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-24 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 586, Statutes of 2016. [SB982 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB982-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 982	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 15, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 14, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator McGuire

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2016

   An act to add Section 4474.12 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to developmental services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 982, as amended, McGuire. State Department of Developmental
Services: developmental centers.
   Existing law vests in the State Department of Developmental
Services jurisdiction over state hospitals referred to as
developmental centers for the provision of residential care to
individuals with developmental disabilities, including the Sonoma
Developmental Center, the Fairview Developmental Center, and the
Porterville Developmental Center, as specified. Existing law requires
the department to comply with procedural requirements when closing a
developmental center. Existing law required, on or before October 1,
2015, the State Department of Developmental Services to submit to
the Legislature a plan or plans to close one or more developmental
centers.
   This bill would require the department to  contract for a
longitudinal study, commencing July 1, 2017, to, among other things,
assess the quality of life and outcomes of developmental center
residents who relocate from the Sonoma Developmental Center, the
Fairview Developmental Center, and the general treatment area of the
Porterville Developmental Center as a result of the closure of those
centers and to make specified recommendations. The bill would specify
the qualifications and duties of the contractor, as specified.
  seek to modify the contract in existence on January 1,
2017, for the conduct of a movers longitudinal study to include
specified requirements, including, among others, a requirement that
at least 250 individuals who meet certain criteria participate in the
study.  The bill would require the department to  annually
 submit interim reports to the Legislature regarding the
 study at the end of the first and second years of the
 study. The bill would require, upon the completion of the
study, the department to submit the study to the Legislature, as
specified.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure the
appropriate transition of consumers currently living in developmental
centers from those centers to community living arrangements as a
result of the closure of the Sonoma Developmental Center, the
Fairview Developmental Center, and the general treatment area of the
Porterville Developmental Center. It is the further intent of the
Legislature to measure the unique needs of people transitioning from
developmental centers, including providing information about the
quality of life, satisfaction with services, the degree to which the
individuals achieve their goals, and other measures as determined by
the department.
  SEC. 2.  Section 4474.12 is added to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, immediately following Section 4474.11, to read: 
   4474.12.  (a) To ensure that persons with developmental
disabilities who are moved from developmental centers to the
community are receiving necessary services and supports, the
department shall contract with an independent agency or organization
for a longitudinal study, commencing July 1, 2017, to assess the
quality of life and outcomes of developmental center residents who
relocate from the Sonoma Developmental Center, the Fairview
Developmental Center, and the general treatment area of the
Porterville Developmental Center, as those institutions are
identified in Sections 4440 and 4440.5, as a result of the closure of
those centers. The study shall supplement the quality assessment
system established by Section 4571 and make recommendations regarding
improving health and safety, choice, integration, and other similar
factors based on the data collected. The study shall be conducted
each year concerning residents who move from the developmental
centers until two years following the date the last resident moves
from the developmental centers.
   (b) The contractor shall be experienced in all of the following:
   (1) Designing valid tracking instruments.
   (2) Tracking the quality of community programs, including
outcome-based measures such as health and safety, quality of life,
integration, choice, and consumer satisfaction.
   (3) Tracking the quality and appropriateness of community
placements for persons moving from large institutions into community
settings.
   (4) Developing data systems.
   (5) Data analysis and report preparation.
   (c) (1) The contractor shall measure consumer and family
satisfaction with services provided, including case management and
quality of life, including, but not limited to, health and safety,
independence, productivity, integration, opportunities for choice,
and delivery of needed services.
   (2) The contractor shall meet with each person, and the person's
family, or legal guardian or conservator, when appropriate, no less
than once per year to discuss quality of life and observe the person'
s services and supports.
   (3) In cases in which the consumer is not capable of communicating
his or her responses, and in which a family member, or legal
guardian or conservator, is not involved, the contractor shall meet
with no fewer than two persons familiar with the consumer.
Additionally, the contractor shall interview staff and friends who
know the consumer best and review records, as appropriate, and shall
use any data concerning the consumer collected through the quality
assurance instrument pursuant to Section 4571.
   (d) The contract may be satisfied by the same contractor used by
the department to implement the quality assurance instrument pursuant
to Section 4571, if appropriate. 
    4474.12.    (a) The department shall seek to modify
the contract in existence on January 1, 2017, for the conduct of a
movers longitudinal study to include all of the following:  

   (1) A requirement that at least 250 individuals who meet the
following criteria participate in the study:  
   (A) Volunteered to participate in the study.  
   (B) Proportionately selected from among individuals who have moved
into the community from Sonoma Developmental Center, Fairview
Developmental Center, or Porterville Developmental Center.  

   (C) Proportionately selected from among individuals who have moved
into the community at different stages of the closure process. 

   (2) A requirement that the study follow a sample of individuals
described in paragraph (1) for a two-year period after the individual
moves into the community from the developmental center.  
   (3) A requirement that the study include individuals who move into
the community from a developmental center during the first year of
the study, and during each subsequent year of the study, until the
developmental centers identified in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1)
close.  
   (4) A requirement that researchers conducting the study meet with
each individual participating in the study at intervals of three
months, six months, one year, and two years following the person's
move into the community from the developmental center to discuss the
individual's quality of life and services and supports.  
   (b) The movers longitudinal study described in this section is one
element of the quality assurance instrument required pursuant to
Section 4571.  
   (e) 
    (c)  (1) For purposes of conducting the study, the
department shall maintain and update the addresses of, and contact
information for, former residents of the centers who relocated as a
result of the closure of the centers.
   (2) The department shall ensure, to the extent permitted by law,
that researchers conducting the study have access to data and other
information necessary to conduct the study, including the addresses
of, and contact information for, former residents of the centers who
relocated due to the closure of the centers. 
   (f) 
    (d)  The department shall  annually  submit
interim reports to the Legislature regarding the study  at
the end of the first and second years of the study,  in
accordance with the requirements of Section 9795 of the Government
Code.  The reports shall include information about consumer and
family satisfaction and adequacy of community services.  Upon
the completion of the study as described in subdivision (a), the
department shall submit the study to the Legislature, in accordance
with the requirements of Section 9795 of the Government Code.