Bill Text: MA H153 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced

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Bill Title: That the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Education

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-29 - Bill reported favorably by committee as changed and referred to the House Committee On Ways and Means [H153 Detail]

Download: Massachusetts-2009-H153-Introduced.html

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Barbara A. L'Italien

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
                Court assembled:

                The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act to support and increase the number of qualified providers of intensive intervention providers for children with autism spectrum disorders.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:	District/Address:
Barbara A. L'Italien	18th Essex
Frank I. Smizik	15th Norfolk
Stephen L. DiNatale	3rd Worcester
Robert L. Rice, Jr.	2nd Worcester
Ellen Story	3rd Hampshire
Tom Sannicandro	7th Middlesex
Matthew C. Patrick	3rd Barnstable
James Dwyer	30th Middlesex
James R. Miceli	19th Middlesex
William N. Brownsberger	24th Middlesex
Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.	12th Hampden
Christine E. Canavan	10th Plymouth
Carlo P. Basile	1st Suffolk
Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera	10th Hampden
Michael F. Rush	10th Suffolk
William Lantigua	16th Essex
Robert A. O'Leary	Cape and Islands
Thomas M. Stanley	9th Middlesex
Anne M. Gobi	5th Worcester
Robert S. Hargraves	1st Middlesex
Brian P. Wallace	4th Suffolk
Allen J. McCarthy	7th Plymouth
David P. Linsky	5th Middlesex
Colleen M. Garry	36th Middlesex
Kay Khan	11th Middlesex
Denise Provost	27th Middlesex
Benjamin Swan	11th Hampden
Richard J. Ross	9th Norfolk
Steven A. Tolman	Second Suffolk and Middlesex
Sarah K. Peake	4th Barnstable
Alice K. Wolf	25th Middlesex
Kevin G. Honan	17th Suffolk

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act to support and increase the number of qualified providers of intensive intervention providers for children with autism spectrum disorders.

                Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1.  The secretary of health and human services and the secretary of education shall collaborate with parents of children with autism, advocates, educators, service providers and others with expertise in meeting the needs of children with autism spectrum disorder to study and develop recommendations for supporting and increasing the number of qualified providers of intensive intervention services including but not limited to Applied Behavior Analysis, Floor Time and Relationship Development Intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder.  The secretary of health and human services and the secretary of education shall submit a joint report to the joint committee on children, families and persons with disabilities, the joint committee of health care finance, the joint committee on higher education and the joint committee on education, describing said recommendations no later than January 1, 2010.  The report shall consider a full range of options for supporting and increasing the number of qualified providers available to provide intensive intervention services for children on the autism spectrum, including but not limited to: collaboration with Massachusetts’ universities, colleges and community colleges; loan forgiveness programs; scholarships to post-secondary students who work as providers and pursue a related field of study; and outreach efforts to parents of children with autism spectrum disorder to recruit parents interested in working as providers of services and strategies to increase the number of providers qualified to serve children with autism spectrum disorder who are from linguistically and culturally diverse families and communities.