AN ACT relating to Medicaid home and community-based waiver residential services.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the right of an individual, parent, guardian, or limited guardian to install video recording devices in the private residential room of an individual who is receiving residential services under a federally approved 1915(c) home and community based services waiver program; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations.

Introduced: January 7, 2025

Last action: January 9, 2025

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This bill would give individuals receiving Medicaid home and community-based waiver residential services, or their parents or guardians, the legal right to install video cameras in their private residential rooms. It also directs the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services to create regulations governing how this would work in practice. This matters to Kentuckians because it would provide a way for residents and families to monitor care and safety in these settings. Who it may affect: people with disabilities or other care needs living in Medicaid-funded residential programs, and their parents or legal guardians.

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