2007 Senate Bill 241 ↩

House Roll Call 592: Passed

To revise the law that authorizes regulations for group homes for emotionally disturbed or developmentally disabled children so as to create a separate category of children's group homes in which restraint or seclusion of residents would be prohibited, which makes them eligible for Medicaid. Currently, in some cases restraint or seclusion is used to ensure the safety of a resident or others during an emergency safety situation. The bill would require more comprehensive criminal background checks for adults in family day care or group day care homes, slightly broaden the definition of “children’s camp” in the law that establishes state regulation of “child care organizations,” and make other revisions to the law related to these.