Section 13.24. Sheltered workshops, work activity and day training services  


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  • 1.  As  used  in  this  section,  the  following  terms shall have the
      following meanings.
        a. "Sheltered workshops" means a program operated for the  purpose  of
      providing  sheltered employment to mentally retarded and developmentally
      disabled persons.
        b. "Work activity and  day  training  services"  means  pre-vocational
      activities defined by regulation of the commissioner designed to enhance
      the ability of a mentally retarded or developmentally disabled person to
      receive vocational rehabilitation services.
        2.  The  commissioner  shall  develop methods to fund by agreement the
      reasonably related cost of services, subject  to  the  approval  of  the
      director  of  the budget, provided in sheltered workshops, work activity
      and day  training  services.  The  commissioner  shall  determine  those
      facilities  and  agencies  providing  such  services  and shall describe
      characteristics of clients receiving  such  services.  The  commissioner
      shall  determine  methods  of improving the current financing system for
      such services.
        3. The  methods  of  improving  the  current  financing  system  shall
      include, but not be limited to, the following:
        a.  Provision of equitable funding to all developmentally disabled and
      mentally  retarded  individuals  which  is  not  dependent  upon   prior
      residence in facilities of the office.
        b.  Establishment  of  systems of provider accountability for units of
      service rendered in return for  payments  made  and  development  of  an
      advanced payment mechanism.
        c.  Recommendation of rules, regulations and standards for the payment
      for provision of services.
        4. The commissioner shall report to the legislature on the progress of
      determining methods of improving the  current  financing  system  on  or
      before April first, nineteen hundred eighty-two.