Bill > H71

This bill mandates the public disclosure of quality indicators for programs serving individuals with developmental disabilities by requiring the commissioner to create and publish a document annually on the commonwealth's official website. This document will contain information that private agencies, group care facilities, and group residences, as a condition of their contracts, must provide to the department by March 31st each year. This required information includes identifying details, financial data like operating budgets and personnel compensation (including wages of the top five highest-paid employees), health care benefits for staff, service quality metrics such as staff turnover rates and substantiated abuse/neglect claims, and programmatic details like board member information and consumer transitions to private residences. The bill also specifies that this act applies to both privately and publicly operated programs and takes effect immediately upon passage.