DHS-HOME SERVICES PROG-WAIVER

Amends the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act. Provides that beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act, the Department of Human Services shall waive prescreening requirements for customers under the Home Services Program who require emergency personal assistant services as a result of sexual assault or abuse. Provides that the provision of services shall continue until eligibility can be determined, and that at no time shall a customer who received such emergency services be assessed a penalty if it is later determined the customer did not satisfy eligibility requirements.