(1) The joint
legislative audit and review committee will conduct a performance
review of the authority and submit the review to the legislature
and the governor. The first review will be submitted before
December 1, 2006, and the second review shall be submitted before
December 1, 2009.
(2) The first performance review will include an evaluation
of the health, welfare, and satisfaction with services provided
of the consumers receiving long-term in-home care services from
individual providers under chapter 3, Laws of 2002, including the
degree to which all required services have been delivered, the
degree to which consumers receiving services from individual
providers have ultimately required additional or more intensive
services, such as home health care, or have been placed in other
residential settings or nursing homes, the promptness of response
to consumer complaints, and any other issue the committee deems
relevant.
(3) The first performance review will provide an explanation
of the full cost of individual provider services, including the
administrative costs of the authority, unemployment compensation,
social security and medicare payroll taxes paid by the
department, and area agency on aging home care oversight costs.
(4) The first performance review will make recommendations
to the legislature and the governor for any amendments to chapter
3, Laws of 2002 that will further ensure the well-being of
consumers and prospective consumers under chapter 3, Laws of
2002, and the most efficient means of delivering required
services. In addition, the first performance review will include
findings and recommendations regarding the appropriateness of the
authority's assumption of responsibility for verification of
hours worked by individual providers, payment of individual
providers, and other duties.
(5) The second performance review will assess the services
provided by the home care quality authority to meet its statutory
duties, and address any other questions required by the
legislature.
[2008 c 140 § 1; 2002 c 3 § 8 (Initiative Measure No. 775, approved November 6, 2001).]
NOTES:
Findings--Captions not law--Severability -- 2002 c 3 (Initiative Measure No. 775): See RCW 74.39A.220 and notes following.