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 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/21/25 - Introduced

 AB-1208 California Developmental Disability Services Quality, Performance, and Outcomes Act of 2025.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/24/2025 09:00 PM

AB1208:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 24, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 01, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 24, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1208

Introduced by Assembly Member Addis

February 21, 2025

 An act to add Section 4573 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to developmental services. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1208, as amended, Addis.
 California Developmental Disability Services Quality, Performance, and Outcomes Act of 2025.

Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law requires the department, in collaboration with stakeholders, to identify a valid and reliable quality assurance instrument that assesses consumer and family satisfaction, provision of services in a linguistically and competent manner, and personal outcomes, as specified.

This bill would require the department, no later than July 1, 2026, to review, assess, and map all established and currently pending regional center and vendored service provider quality, performance, and outcome measures and surveys that are used within the California developmental services system, as
 specified. The bill would also require the department, on or before January 1, 2027, to consult with stakeholders and appropriate subject matter experts via a workgroup to develop a uniform set of quality, performance, and outcomes measures and measures, a tracking mechanism to measure, compare, and track over time, time the consistency, equity, and accountability in promoting the choice, autonomy, and life quality of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
 families, and performance indicators and benchmarks for regional centers, as specified. The bill would require the department to submit a related report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2028.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Developmental Disability Services Quality, Performance, and Outcomes Act of 2025.

SEC. 2.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) The Lanterman Developmental Services Act was passed more than fifty years ago to assist individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to live full, productive lives by providing an array of services to meet the needs and choices of each person with developmental disabilities, regardless of age or degree of disability, and at each stage of life, and to support their integration into the mainstream life of the community. Implementation of the act is overseen by the State Department of Developmental Services, which contracts with 21 nonprofit regional
 centers to coordinate the delivery of home- and community-based services to Californians with developmental disabilities and their families. Each regional center serves a different area of the state and oversees the delivery of services within its catchment area.

(2) Historically, the developmental services system has almost solely focused on quantifying the number of resources expended and levels of regulatory compliance. The federal and state developmental services systems are moving away from compliance-based measures, and toward outcomes-based measures, for determining whether systems are meeting individualized needs based on person-centered planning and self-determination. In California, progress toward this goal has been impeded by three fundamental barriers. Although well intentioned, previous efforts have resulted in a patchwork
 of measures that are still primarily compliance-based, and lack consiste