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<item congress="116" measure-type="s" measure-number="3220" measure-id="id116s3220" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2020-01-21" update-date="2020-02-20">
<title>Ensuring Access to Direct Support Professionals Act</title>
<summary summary-id="id116s3220v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2020-02-20">
<action-date>2020-01-21</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Ensuring Access to Direct Support Professionals Act</b></p> <p>This bill allows state Medicaid programs to cover certain home- and community-based services, self-directed personal assistance services, and home- and community-based attendant services that are provided in acute care hospitals. The bill specifies, among other criteria, that such services may not be duplicative of, or serve as a substitute for, necessary or obligatory hospital services. </p>]]></summary-text>
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