SENATE BILL 240

File Code: Disabled Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 726

Sponsored By:

Senator Dorman (Co-Chairman, Special Joint Committee on Group Homes)

Entitled:

Interagency Coordinating Council on Community-Based Services for Adults with Developmental Disabilities or Mental Disorders

Synopsis:

Establishing an Interagency Coordinating Council on Community-Based Services for Adults with Developmental Disabilities or Mental Disorders; specifying the membership, responsibilities, and duties of the Council; establishing the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as the lead agency for supervising and monitoring the interagency system for regulating the establishment, licensure, and operation of certain community-based residential facilities or programs; etc.

Legislative History

Senate Action

1/21

First Reading Finance

Hearing 2/5 at 1:00 p.m.

3/19

Unfavorable Report by Finance

House Action

No Action

Sponsored by:

Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21

Group Homes, Sp. Jt. Comm. on

Bill indexed under the following Subjects:

COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES

COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND SERVICES

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

GROUP HOMES

HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF

LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES LICENSES

MENTAL HEALTH

Bill affects the following Statutes:

Health - General

( 13-901 , 13-902 , 13-903 , 13-904 , 13-905 , 13-906 )

Documents:

Bill Text:

First Reading (PDF), Third Reading, Enrolled

Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)