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This bill, known as "Mason's Law", establishes a special classification for residential care facilities specifically serving pediatric palliative care patients. The bill defines a pediatric palliative care patient as an individual under 21 years old with a chronic, complex, life-threatening illness that is expected to shorten their life expectancy and is not expected to survive past 21. The new classification allows for a specialized type of residential care facility called a "pediatric palliative care center" that provides respite care services and hospice program services. These facilities will be exempt from certain regulatory requirements and will be eligible for various funding sources, including federal social services block grants, state supplementary assistance programs, hospice respite benefits, home and community-based services waivers, and other funding sources typically available to nursing facilities and hospice programs. The bill also authorizes the department of health and human services to adopt emergency rules to implement these provisions, and the act will take effect immediately upon enactment.

Health and Social Services

Health And Human Services (House)

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