Bill Summary: SF459 - Continuing Care and Human Services Modifications

• Modifies advisory task force requirements to allow court-mandated task forces to receive expense reimbursement without counting toward the four-task-force limit for paid expenses in state agencies.

• Expands nursing home resident relocation procedures by requiring facilities to notify managed care organizations during closure or reduction, provide updated resident census information to Ombudsmen, and prohibit new admissions after closure notice.

• Changes assessment requirements for waiver program eligibility by replacing "screening teams" with "certified assessors" and reducing evaluation timeline from 60 days to 5 working days for persons with developmental disabilities.

• Modifies nursing facility statistical and cost report filing requirements by eliminating filing extensions effective September 30, 2013, and changing deadline from January 15 to February 1.

• Adds standardized assessment tool requirement for county social service agencies when investigating maltreatment of vulnerable adults, with data accessibility to the Department of Human Services.