Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 709.4 - Children services advisory committee(a) There is hereby created a temporary Children Services Advisory Committee consisting of thirteen persons as follows:(1) The Secretary of Public Welfare.(2) Three persons selected by the Secretary of Public Welfare to represent county children and youth programs, private community services and private institutional services.(3) The Majority Chairman and the Minority Chairman of the Aging and Youth Committee and the Majority Chairman and the Minority Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and the Majority Chairman and the Minority Chairman of the Aging and Youth Committee and the Majority Chairman and the Minority Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives, each of whom may select a temporary or permanent designee who need not be a member of the General Assembly.(4) The chairman of the Juvenile Court Judges' Commission.(b) The purpose of the committee shall be to study and report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31, 1992, on subjects which shall include, but not be limited to: (1) Uniform children and youth service definitions.(2) A methodology or alternative methodologies for the calculation of standardized rates based on uniform service definitions.(3) The impact of variable reimbursement rates for different types of services on the nature of the services provided to children and youth and the desirability of any change in those reimbursement rates from those enacted into law or implemented by the department.(c) The Children Services Advisory Committee shall remain in existence until it has submitted its report or December 31, 1992, whichever shall first occur. The Children Services Advisory Committee shall be initially convened by the Secretary of Public Welfare on or before October 1, 1991.1967, June 13, P.L. 31, No. 21, art. 7, § 709.4, added 1991, Aug. 5, P.L. 315, No. 30, § 3, imd. effective.