0001|                       SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 44
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          RICHARD M. ROMERO
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     SUPPORTING A PLANNING PROCESS TO DEVELOP REVISIONS TO THE
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0012|     HOME-BASED RESIDENTIAL MODEL OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES 
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0013|     WAIVER.
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0014|     
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0015|          WHEREAS, residential services provided to persons with
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0016|     developmental disabilities by family members and surrogate
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0017|     family members are cost effective; and
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0018|          WHEREAS, clients living in the homes of residential
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0019|     service providers have been shown to receive excellent, one-
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0020|     on-one care in the least restrictive setting; and
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0021|          WHEREAS, clients living in home environments experience
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0022|     optimum behavior and quality of life; and
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0023|          WHEREAS, allowing family members to provide services
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0024|     helps keep families of persons with developmental disabilities
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0025|     intact, and the care of surrogate family members helps create
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0001|     a supportive, family-like environment; and
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0002|          WHEREAS, the expansion of home-based living is one of the
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0003|     recommendations of a state audit for complying with the
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0004|     <u>Jackson</u> lawsuit;
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0005|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0006|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that home-based living services for
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0007|     persons with developmental disabilities be encouraged and
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0008|     supported by the department of health in its current and
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0009|     future policy and rate-making decisions; and
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0010|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the department of health
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0011|     initiate an ongoing planning process to analyze, study, review
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0012|     and develop revisions to the home-based residential model of
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0013|     the developmental disabilities waiver; and
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0014|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the planning process consist
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0015|     of twelve participants, including representatives from the
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0016|     department of health, the human services department, the New
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0017|     Mexico association of family providers and provider agencies,
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0018|     and that the participants be chosen by a consensus of the
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0019|     department of health and the New Mexico association of family
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0020|     providers; and
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0021|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the results of the study and
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0022|     suggestions for changes to the home-based residential model of
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0023|     the developmental disabilities waiver be presented to the
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0024|     interim legislative health and human services committee no
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0025|     later than October 1, 1998; and
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0001|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the department of health be
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0002|     requested to maintain its funding to home-based providers and
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0003|     maintain current regulations until the planning process has
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0004|     been completed and presented to the interim legislative health
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0005|     and human services committee so that home-based living
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0006|     services will continue to encourage willing and qualified
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0007|     family members, surrogate family members and guardians of
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0008|     persons with developmental disabilities to provide services in
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0009|     the home-based residential model; and
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0010|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0011|     sent to the secretary of health, the secretary of human
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0012|     services, the governor and the New Mexico association of
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0013|     family providers.
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