Developmental services: Commission on Oversight Efficiency and Quality Enhancement Models.

The Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act authorizes the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities. The services and supports to be provided to a regional center consumer are contained in an individual program plan, developed in accordance with prescribed requirements. The California Community Care Facilities Act provides for the licensure and regulation of community care facilities, including residential facilities, adult day programs, small family homes, and group homes, by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate various types of health facilities, and requires the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Developmental Services to jointly develop and implement licensing regulations appropriate for intermediate care facilities/developmentally disabled-nursing and intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled-continuous nursing. This bill would establish the Commission on Oversight Efficiency and Quality Enhancement Models to investigate methods of implementing a unified and consistent oversight and quality enhancement process that ensures the welfare, community participation, health, and safety of individuals with developmental disabilities who are served in programs licensed by the Community Care Licensing Division of the State Department of Social Services. The bill would require the process to also enhance accountability and quality review processes for the services directly provided by regional centers. The bill would require the Governor, Senate Committee on Rules, and the Speaker of the Assembly to appoint members to serve on the commission, as prescribed, and the State Department of Developmental Services, the State Department of Social Services, and the California Health and Human Services Agency to appoint nonvoting ex officio members. The bill would require the State Department of Developmental Services to provide staff support to the commission. The bill would require the commission to recommend a strategy for uniform data collection that provides reliable, valid, and actionable data from multiple stakeholder perspectives and that may be consistently deployed at regional centers. This bill would require the commission to review current regulations and relevant statutes to better focus on reliable data to measure outcomes for individuals served and the impact of services on the lives of individuals and their families, in accordance with prescribed characteristics. The bill would require the commission to convene no sooner than July 1, 2016, and, by September 30, 2016, to determine the best methods for collecting input on relevant regulatory standards and statutes, and to request public input on those standards, as specified. The bill would require the commission to review and compile, by September 30, 2017, the input received and to submit, by December 31, 2017, a report on its recommended regulatory and statutory changes to the Legislature and the State Department of Developmental Services. These provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2019.