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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HOME AND COMMUNITY

CARE SERVICES TO THE ELDERLY

     Introduced By: Representatives Serpa, and Donovan

     Date Introduced: March 04, 2022

     Referred To: House Health & Human Services

     (Office of Healthy Aging)

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 42-66.3-8 of the General Laws in Chapter 42-66.3 entitled "Home

and Community Care Services to the Elderly" is hereby amended to read as follows:

     42-66.3-8. Home and community care advisory committee.

     (a) There is established a permanent state committee to be known as the home and

community care services advisory committee established for the purpose of advising the director

of elderly affairs the office of healthy aging relative to the needs and concerns of home and

community care services care recipients. The commission shall consist of twenty-three (23) twenty-

four (24) members: six (6) four (4) of whom shall be representatives of state agencies or

departments one of whom shall be representatives of the general public age sixty (60) years of age

or older, two (2) to be appointed by the speaker of the house who shall be members of AARP; one

to be appointed by the house minority leader; two (2) to be appointed by the senate president; one

of whom shall be a member of AARP; and one to be appointed by the senate minority leader; one

of whom shall be a representative of the general public, fifty-nine (59) years of age or under to be

appointed by the governor's commission on disabilities; six (6) of whom shall be representatives of

home and community care providers to be appointed by the director of elderly affairs, including,

one representative of adult day services centers; one representative of assisted living residences;

one representative of home nursing care providers/home care providers; one representative of case

management agencies; one representative of respite care providers; and one representative of a

visiting nurses association; one of whom shall be a family caregiver or a person sixty (60) years of

age or older to be appointed by the director of elderly affairs; one of whom shall be the long-term

care ombudsperson; one of whom shall be the chairperson of long-term care coordinating council

or his or her designee; one of whom shall be the health care advocate of the attorney general's

department; one of whom shall be the executive director of the Rhode Island Partnership for Home

Care Incorporated, or his or her designee; one of whom shall be the director of the Rhode Island

Visiting Nurse Network, or his or her designee; one of whom shall be the director of the Rhode

Island chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, or his or her designee; one of whom shall be the

director of health, or his or her designee; one of whom shall be the director of human services, or

his or her designee; and one of whom shall be the director of behavioral healthcare, developmental

disabilities and hospitals, or his or her designee. the director of human services, or designee; one

of whom shall be the director of the Medicaid program, or designee; one of whom shall be the

director of behavioral health, developmental disabilities and hospitals, or designee; one of whom

shall be the attorney general, or designee; fourteen (14) of whom shall be appointed by the director

of the office of healthy aging; one of whom shall be a representative of a trade association for adult

day care facilities; one of whom shall be a representative of the aging and disability resource center;

one of whom shall be a representative of a trade association for assisted living facilities; one of

whom shall be a representative of a case management program; one of whom shall be a

representative of a trade association for home care agencies; one of whom shall be a representative

of a trade association representing hospice agencies; one of whom shall be a representative of the

Alzheimer’s Association; one of whom shall be a representative of a program of all-inclusive care

for the elderly; one of whom shall be a representative of a senior center; one of whom shall be a

representative of a state grant-funded respite care program; one of whom shall be a representative

of the office of the long-term care ombudsman; one whom shall be a representative of a managed

care organization; one whom shall be a representative of the governor’s commission on disability

and one whom shall be a representative of the AARP of Rhode Island. In addition, there shall be

six (6) members of the general public who are caregivers of and/or individuals sixty (60) years of

age or older or adults with disabilities residing in the community, two (2) to be appointed by the

speaker of the house; one to be appointed by the house minority leader; two (2) to be appointed by

the senate president and one to be appointed by the senate minority leader.

     (b) The members of the committee shall meet at the call of the director and organize and

shall select from among themselves a chairperson. Vacancies in the committee shall be filled in the

same manner as the original appointment. The membership of the committee shall receive no

compensation for their services. The committee may call upon the department of elderly affairs

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office of healthy aging to provide technical and other assistance as it may deem necessary to

accomplish its purpose.

     (c) All departments and agencies of the state shall furnish any advice and information,

documentary and otherwise, to the committee and its agents as is deemed necessary or desirable by

the committee to facilitate the purposes of this chapter.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N   A C T

RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- HOME AND COMMUNITY

CARE SERVICES TO THE ELDERLY

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     This act would amend the composition of the home and community care services advisory

committee.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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