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system for all persons eligible for long-term services
and supports.
(5) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—
The State may carry out directly, or may provide
support to a public or private entity to carry out
training and technical assistance activities that are
provided for individuals with disabilities, and, as ap-
propriate, their representatives, attendants, and
other personnel (including professionals, paraprofes-
sionals, volunteers, and other members of the com-
munity).
(6) PUBLIC AWARENESS.—The State may sup-
port a public awareness program that is designed to
provide information relating to the availability of
choices available to individuals with disabilities for
receiving long-term services and support in the most
integrated setting appropriate.
(7) TRANSITIONAL COSTS.—The State may use
funds to provide transitional costs such as rent and
utility deposits, first months’s rent and utilities, bed-
ding, basic kitchen supplies, and other necessities re-
quired for an individual to make the transition from
an institutional facility to a community-based home
setting where the individual resides.
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(8) TASK FORCE.—The State may use funds to
support the operation of the Consumer Task Force
established under subsection (d).
(9) DEMONSTRATIONS OF NEW APPROACHES.—
The State may use funds to conduct, on a time-lim-
ited basis, the demonstration of new approaches to
accomplishing the purposes described in subsection
(a)(1).
(10) IMPROVEMENT IN THE QUALITY OF SERV-
ICES AND SUPPORTS.—The State may use funds to
improve the quality of services and supports pro-
vided to individuals with disabilities and their fami-
lies.
(11) OTHER ACTIVITIES.—The State may use
funds for any systems change activities that are not
described in any of the preceding paragraphs of this
subsection and that are necessary for developing, im-
plementing, or evaluating the comprehensive state-
wide system of community-integrated long-term serv-
ices and supports.
(d) CONSUMER TASK FORCE.—
(1) ESTABLISHMENT AND DUTIES.—To be eli-
gible to receive a grant under this section, each
State shall establish a Consumer Task Force (re-
ferred to in this section as the ‘‘Task Force’’) to as-
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sist the State in the development, implementation,
and evaluation of real choice systems change initia-
tives.
(2) APPOINTMENT.—Members of the Task
Force shall be appointed by the Chief Executive Of-
ficer of the State in accordance with the require-
ments of paragraph (3), after the solicitation of rec-
ommendations from representatives of organizations
representing a broad range of individuals with dis-
abilities and organizations interested in individuals
with disabilities.
(3) COMPOSITION.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Task Force shall
represent a broad range of individuals with dis-
abilities from diverse backgrounds and shall in-
clude representatives from Developmental Dis-
abilities Councils, Mental Health Councils,
State Independent Living Centers and Councils,
Commissions on Aging, organizations that pro-
vide services to individuals with disabilities and
consumers of long-term services and supports.
(B) INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.—A
majority of the members of the Task Force
shall be individuals with disabilities or the rep-
resentatives of such individuals.
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(C) LIMITATION.—The Task Force shall
not include employees of any State agency pro-
viding services to individuals with disabilities
other than employees of agencies described in
the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and
Bill of Rights Act (42 U.S.C. 6000 et seq.) or
the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill
Individuals Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C. 10801 et
seq.).
(e) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—
(1) FUNDS ALLOTTED TO STATES.—Funds al-
lotted to a State under a grant made under this sec-
tion for a fiscal year shall remain available until ex-
pended.
(2) FUNDS NOT ALLOTTED TO STATES.—Funds
not allotted to States in the fiscal year for which
they are appropriated shall remain available in suc-
ceeding fiscal years for allotment by the Secretary
using the allotment formula established by the Sec-
retary under subsection (b)(2).
(f) ANNUAL REPORT.—A State that receives a grant
under this section shall submit an annual report to the
Secretary on the use of funds provided under the grant.
Each report shall include the number and percentage in-
crease in the number of eligible individuals in the State
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who receive long-term services and supports in the most
integrated setting appropriate, including through commu-
nity attendant services and supports and other commu-
nity-based settings.
(g) FUNDING.—
(1) FISCAL
YEAR
2001.—For the purpose of
making grants under this section, there are appro-
priated, out of any funds in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2001.
(2) FISCAL
YEAR
2002
AND
THEREAFTER.—
There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as
may be necessary to carry out this section for fiscal
year 2002 and each fiscal year thereafter.
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