DHS-DD COMMUN RESIDENTL CHOICE

Amends the Developmental Disability and Mental Disability Services Act. Provides for a Community Residential Choices Program to allow a person with a developmental disability to participate in a community-based residential program where he or she is grouped in a home with no more than 3 roommates, each of whom has a developmental disability, whose disabilities, service needs, ages, and gender are compatible. Commencing with the State fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007, requires the Department of Human Services to establish Community Residential Choices Program sites in geographic locations throughout the State. Provides that for the State fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007, the Department shall make non-crisis placement slots available to no fewer than 80 persons; for the State fiscal years beginning on July 1, 2008 and July 1, 2009, the Department shall establish non-crisis placement slots for an additional 80 persons each year. Provides that the Department shall reimburse each provider of a Community Residential Choices Program at a rate equal to 100% of the provider's cost of providing those services, including the cost of acquiring, renovating, or converting the home and the cost of transportation. Effective immediately.