H.F. No. 1 Summary

• Modifies customized living quality improvement grants for brain injury, community access for disability inclusion, and elderly waiver providers, requiring providers to serve at least 75 waiver participants with at least 75 percent of clients being waiver participants effective July 1, 2021.

• Extends COVID-19 peacetime emergency waivers and modifications through June 30, 2021, including telemedicine services, remote service delivery, flexible licensing requirements, and streamlined application processes for economic assistance programs.

• Appropriates $20,305,000 from the coronavirus relief fund in fiscal year 2021 for retention grants to home and community-based service providers to cover fixed costs from March 1 through December 30, 2020, based on 66 percent of January 2020 medical assistance revenue.

• Appropriates $10,125,000 from the coronavirus relief fund in fiscal year 2021 for public health grants to disability services providers implementing COVID-19 social distancing measures, with maximum grants of $200,000 per provider.

• Establishes expedited grant processes allowing electronic submissions and signatures, with provider applications due by September 15, 2020 for retention grants and November 15, 2020 for public health grants.