eliminate delays in access to such treatments, inter-
ventions, and services. 
‘‘(b) GUIDANCE
TO STATES.—Not later than 6 
months after the date of enactment of the Expanding the 
Promise for Individuals With Autism Act of 2007, the 
Secretary, in conjunction with the heads of other relevant 
agencies, shall develop a guidance to States, with the pur-
pose of increasing the amount and quality of postdiagnosis 
treatments, interventions, and services, and eliminating 
delays in access to supplementary health care, behavioral 
support services, and individual and family-support serv-
ices through Federal and State funded programs. 
‘‘(c) TIMELINES.—Following the release of the guid-
ance described in subsection (b), the Secretary shall de-
velop an implementation timeline for States to establish 
programs that reduce the amount of time between diag-
nosis of autism in children and the point when children 
with autism receive evidence-based treatment, interven-
tions, and services. 
‘‘(d) APPLICATION AND GRANTS.—Not later than 12 
months after the date of enactment of the Expanding the 
Promise for Individuals With Autism Act of 2007, the 
Secretary shall award grants to States to enable the States 
to carry out the guidance established in subsection (b). 
States that desire to receive a grant under this subsection 
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shall submit an application at such time and containing 
such information as the Secretary may require. 
‘‘(e) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—Grant funds 
provided under this section shall supplement, not sup-
plant, existing treatments, interventions, and services for 
individuals with autism. 
‘‘(f) EVALUATION.—The Secretary shall contract, 36 
months after establishing the demonstration grant pro-
gram under this section, with a third-party organization 
with expertise in evaluation to evaluate such demonstra-
tion grant program and release a report not later than 
4 years after the date of enactment of the Expanding the 
Promise for Individuals With Autism Act of 2007 on the 
following topics: 
‘‘(1) Whether such grant program has resulted 
in increased and improved provision of multi-agency, 
intensive, and comprehensive, evidence-based treat-
ments and interventions, and elimination of delays in 
access to Federal and State-funded programs. 
‘‘(2) The best practices in States to increase 
and improve services and eliminate delays in access 
to such services. 
‘‘(3) Additional actions that may be required in 
order to ensure increases and improvement in 
postdiagnosis treatments, interventions, and services, 
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and eliminating delays in access to Federal and 
State-funded programs. 
‘‘(4) Other information, as required by the Sec-
retary. 
‘‘(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this sec-
tion— 
‘‘(1) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2009; 
‘‘(2) $13,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; 
‘‘(3) $17,000,000 for fiscal year 2011; and 
‘‘(4) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2012. 
‘‘SEC. 399LL. NATIONAL TRAINING INITIATIVES ON AUTISM. 
‘‘(a) NATIONAL
TRAINING
INITIATIVE
SUPPLE-
MENTAL GRANTS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— 
‘‘(1) SUPPLEMENTAL GRANTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 
award, in consultation with the Interagency Au-
tism Coordinating Committee, multiyear na-
tional training initiative supplemental grants to 
University Centers of Excellence for Develop-
mental Disabilities in order to allow each such 
center to provide training, technical assistance, 
dissemination, and services, and address the 
unmet needs of individuals with autism and 
their families. 
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‘‘(B) REQUIREMENTS.—A University Cen-
ter of Excellence for Developmental Disabilities 
that desires to receive a grant under this para-
graph shall submit to the Secretary an applica-
tion containing such agreements and informa-
tion as the Secretary may require, including 
agreements that the training program shall— 
‘‘(i) provide trainees with an appro-
priate balance of interdisciplinary academic 
and community-based experiences; 
‘‘(ii) have a demonstrated capacity to 
provide training and technical assistance in 
evidence-based practices to evaluate and 
provide effective treatments, interventions, 
and services to children with autism, 
adults with autism, and their families; 
‘‘(iii) have a demonstrated capacity to 
include individuals with autism, parents, 
and family members as part of the training 
program to ensure that a person and fam-
ily-centered approach is used; 
‘‘(iv) provide to the Secretary, in the 
manner prescribed by the Secretary, data 
regarding the outcomes of the provision of 
training and technical assistance; 
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‘‘(v) demonstrate a willingness to 
share and disseminate materials and prac-
tices that are developed and evaluated to 
be effective in the provision of training and 
technical assistance; and 
‘‘(vi) provide assurances that training, 
technical assistance, and service dem-
onstration performed under grants made 
pursuant to this paragraph shall be con-
sistent with the goals established under al-
ready existing disability programs author-
ized under Federal law and conducted in 
coordination with other relevant State 
agencies and service providers. 
‘‘(C) ACTIVITIES.—A University Center of 
Excellence for Developmental Disabilities that 
receives a grant under this paragraph shall ex-
pand and develop interdisciplinary training and 
continuing education initiatives for health, al-
lied health, and educational professionals and 
develop model services that demonstrate evi-
dence-based practices, by engaging in the fol-
lowing activities: 
‘‘(i) Training health, allied health, and 
educational professionals to identify, diag-
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nose, and develop interventions for individ-
uals with, or at risk of developing, autism. 
‘‘(ii) Working to expand the avail-
ability of effective, lifelong interventions, 
educational services, and community sup-
ports. 
‘‘(iii) Providing statewide technical as-
sistance in collaboration with relevant 
State agencies, autism advocacy groups, 
and community-based service providers. 
‘‘(iv) Working to develop comprehen-
sive systems of supports and services for 
individuals with autism and their families. 
‘‘(v) Promoting and engaging in train-
ing, technical assistance, dissemination, 
and evidence-based supports and services. 
‘‘(vi) Developing mechanisms to pro-
vide training and technical assistance, in-
cluding for-credit courses, intensive sum-
mer institutes, continuing education pro-
grams, distance-based programs, and web- 
based information dissemination strategies. 
‘‘(vii) Promoting activities that sup-
port community-based family and indi-
vidual services and enable individuals with 
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autism to participate in society and achieve 
good quality of life outcomes. 
‘‘(viii) Collecting data on the out-
comes of training and technical assistance 
programs to meet statewide needs for the 
expansion of services to children with au-
tism and adults with autism. 
‘‘(2) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary 
shall reserve 2 percent of the appropriated funds to 
make a grant to a national organization with dem-
onstrated capacity for providing training and tech-
nical assistance to University Centers of Excellence 
for Developmental Disabilities to— 
‘‘(A) assist in national dissemination of 
specific information, including evidence-based 
best practices, from interdisciplinary training 
programs, and when appropriate, other entities 
whose findings would inform the work per-
formed by entities awarded grants; 
‘‘(B) compile and disseminate strategies 
and materials that prove to be effective in the 
provision of training and technical assistance so 
that the entire network can benefit from the 
models, materials, and practices developed in 
individual centers; 
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‘‘(C) assist in the coordination of activities 
of grantees under this section; 
‘‘(D) develop a web portal that will provide 
linkages to each of the individual training ini-
tiatives and provide access to training modules, 
promising training, and technical assistance 
practices and other materials developed by 
grantees; 
‘‘(E) serve as a research-based resource for 
Federal and State policymakers on information 
concerning the provision of training and tech-
nical assistance for the assessment, diagnosis 
of, and provisions for supports and services for 
children with autism and adults with autism; 
‘‘(F) convene experts from multiple inter-
disciplinary training programs and individuals 
with autism and their families to discuss and 
make recommendations with regard to training 
issues related to the assessment, diagnosis of, 
treatment, interventions and services for, chil-
dren with autism and adults with autism; and 
‘‘(G) undertake any other functions that 
the Secretary determines to be appropriate. 
‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
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‘‘(A) FISCAL YEAR 2008.—There is author-
ized to be appropriated to carry out this sub-
section $13,400,000 for fiscal year 2008— 
‘‘(i) to award supplemental grants, in 
equal amounts, to University Centers of 
Excellence for Developmental Disabilities; 
and 
‘‘(ii) in the case of University Centers 
of Excellence for Developmental Disabil-
ities located in American Samoa or the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, to award supplemental grants of 
not less than $100,000 each. 
‘‘(B) FISCAL YEAR 2009 THROUGH 2012.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry 
out this subsection such sums as may be nec-
essary for each of the fiscal years 2009 through 
2012— 
‘‘(i) to award supplemental grants, in 
equal amounts, to University Centers of 
Excellence for Developmental Disabilities; 
and 
‘‘(ii) in the case of University Centers 
of Excellence for Developmental Disabil-
ities located in American Samoa or the 
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Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, to award supplemental grants of 
not less than $100,000 per individual 
grant. 
‘‘(C) 
APPROPRIATIONS
LESS
THAN 
$13,400,000.—Notwithstanding 
subparagraphs 
(A) and (B), with respect to any fiscal year for 
which the amount appropriated under this 
paragraph to carry out this section is less than 
$13,400,000, the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(i) award supplemental grants, on a 
competitive basis, from such amount to in-
dividual University Centers for Excellence 
in Developmental Disabilities of not less 
than $200,000 per individual grant; and 
‘‘(ii) in the case of University Centers 
of Excellence for Developmental Disabil-
ities located in American Samoa or the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, award supplemental grants, on a 
competitive 
basis, 
of 
not 
less 
than 
$100,000 per individual grant. 
‘‘(D) RESERVATION.—Not more than 2 
percent of the amount appropriated under this 
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paragraph for a fiscal year may be reserved to 
carry out paragraph (2) for such fiscal year. 
‘‘(b) EXPANSION OF THE NUMBER OF UNIVERSITY 
CENTERS FOR EXCELLENCE IN DEVELOPMENTAL DIS-
ABILITIES RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND SERVICES.— 
‘‘(1) PURPOSE.—The Secretary shall award not 
more than 4 additional grants for the University 
Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities 
for the purpose of expanding the capacity of existing 
national networks and enhancing the number of 
training facilities with a primary focus on autism. 
Such Centers shall— 
‘‘(A) train health, allied health, and edu-
cational professionals to identify, diagnose, 
treat, and provide services for individuals with 
autism; 
‘‘(B) provide services to individual with au-
tism; and 
‘‘(C) provide other training and technical 
assistance, as necessary. 
‘‘(2) PRIORITY.—The Secretary shall give pri-
ority in awarding grants to Centers in— 
‘‘(A) minority-serving institutions that 
have demonstrated the capacity to meet the re-
quirements to qualify as a University Center for 
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Excellence in Developmental Disabilities and 
provide services to individuals with autism; or 
‘‘(B) States with underserved populations. 
‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subsection $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal 
years 2008 through 2012. 
‘‘SEC. 399MM. GAO STUDY ON SERVICE PROVISION AND FI-
NANCING. 
‘‘Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment 
of the Expanding the Promise for Individuals With Autism 
Act of 2007, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall release a report that examines the following issues: 
‘‘(1) The ways in which autism services and 
treatments are currently financed in the United 
States. 
‘‘(2) Current policies for public and private 
health insurance coverage of autism treatments, 
interventions, and services. 
‘‘(3) Geographic and regional disparities in pro-
vision of services across the lifespan of individuals 
with autism, levels of community-based versus insti-
tutional services, and coverage for such services. 
‘‘(4) Ways in which to improve financing of au-
tism treatments, interventions, and services, so as to 
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ensure a minimum level of coverage across the 
United States. 
‘‘SEC. 399NN. EMERGING NEEDS PROTECTION AND ADVO-
CACY PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make grants 
to protection and advocacy systems for the purpose of ena-
bling such systems to address the needs of individuals with 
autism and other emerging populations of individuals with 
disabilities. 
‘‘(b) SERVICES PROVIDED.—Services provided under 
this section may include the provision of— 
‘‘(1) information, referrals, and advice; 
‘‘(2) individual and family advocacy; 
‘‘(3) legal representation; and 
‘‘(4) specific assistance in self-advocacy. 
‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section, a protection and advocacy system shall 
submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in 
such form and manner, and accompanied by such informa-
tion and assurances as the Secretary may require. 
‘‘(d) APPROPRIATIONS LESS THAN $6,000,000.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to any fiscal 
year in which the amount appropriated under sub-
section (i) to carry out this section is less than 
$6,000,000, the Secretary shall make grants from 
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such amount to individual protection and advocacy 
systems within States to enable such systems to plan 
for, develop outreach strategies for, and carry out 
services authorized under this section for emerging 
populations of individuals with disabilities. 
‘‘(2) AMOUNT OF GRANT.—The amount of a 
grant under paragraph (1) shall be based on the size 
of the State in which the individual protection and 
advocacy system is located but be not less than 
$100,000 for individual protection and advocacy sys-
tems located in States and not less than $50,000 for 
individual protection and advocacy systems located 
in territories and the American Indian consortium. 
‘‘(e) APPROPRIATIONS OF $6,000,000 OR MORE.— 
The Secretary shall make grants during each fiscal year 
not later than October 1 to States as follows: 
‘‘(1) POPULATION BASIS.—Except as provided 
in paragraph (2), with respect to each fiscal year in 
which the amount appropriated under subsection (i) 
to carry out this section is $6,000,000 or more, the 
Secretary shall make a grant to a protection and ad-
vocacy system within each State. 
‘‘(2) AMOUNT.—The amount of a grant pro-
vided to a system under paragraph (1) shall be equal 
to an amount bearing the same ratio to the total 
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amount appropriated for the fiscal year involved 
under subsection (i) as the population of the State 
in which the grantee is located bears to the popu-
lation of all States. 
‘‘(3) MINIMUMS.—Subject to the availability of 
appropriations, the amount of a grant to a protec-
tion and advocacy system under paragraph (1) for a 
fiscal year shall be— 
‘‘(A) in the case of a protection and advo-
cacy system located in American Samoa, Guam, 
the United States Virgin Islands, or the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
and the protection and advocacy system serving 
the American Indian consortium, not less than 
$50,000; and 
‘‘(B) in the case of a protection and advo-
cacy system in a State not described in sub-
paragraph (A), not less than $100,000. 
‘‘(4) INFLATION ADJUSTMENT.—For each fiscal 
year in which the total amount appropriated under 
subsection (i) to carry out this section is $7,000,000 
or more, and such appropriated amount exceeds the 
total amount appropriated to carry out this section 
in the preceding fiscal year, the Secretary shall in-
crease each of the minimum grant amounts de-
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scribed in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph 
(3) by a percentage equal to the percentage increase 
in the total amount appropriated under subsection 
(i) to carry out this section between the preceding 
fiscal year and the fiscal year involved. 
‘‘(f) CARRYOVER.—Any amount paid to a protection 
and advocacy system that serves a State or the American 
Indian consortium for a fiscal year under this section that 
remains unobligated at the end of such fiscal year shall 
remain available to such system for obligation during the 
next fiscal year for the purposes for which such amount 
was originally provided. 
‘‘(g) DIRECT PAYMENT.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Secretary shall pay directly to any 
protection and advocacy system that complies with the 
provisions of this section, the total amount of the grant 
for such system, unless the system provides otherwise for 
such payment. 
‘‘(h) ANNUAL REPORT.—Each protection and advo-
cacy system that receives a payment under this section 
shall submit an annual report to the Secretary concerning 
the services provided to emerging populations of individ-
uals with disabilities by such system. 
‘‘(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
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$8,000,000 for fiscal year 2008, and such sums as may 
be necessary for each the fiscal years 2009 through 2013. 
‘‘(j) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) AMERICAN
INDIAN
CONSORTIUM.—The 
term ‘American Indian consortium’ has the meaning 
given the term in section 102 of the Developmental 
Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 
2000 (42 U.S.C. 15002). 
‘‘(2) PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY SYSTEM.— 
The term ‘protection and advocacy system’ means a 
protection and advocacy system established under 
section 143 of the Developmental Disabilities Assist-
ance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 
15043). 
‘‘(3) STATE.—The term ‘State’, unless other-
wise specified, means the several States of the 
United States, the District of Columbia, the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin 
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘(k) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary shall 
reserve 2 percent of appropriated funds to make a grant 
to an eligible national organization for providing training 
and technical assistance to protection and advocacy sys-
tems. 
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‘‘SEC. 399OO. NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER 
FOR AUTISM TREATMENT, INTERVENTION, 
AND SERVICES. 
‘‘(a) NATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER 
FOR AUTISM TREATMENTS, INTERVENTIONS, AND SERV-
ICES.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall 
award a grant to a national nonprofit organization 
for the establishment and maintenance of a national 
technical assistance center. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBILITY.—An organization shall be el-
igible to receive a grant under paragraph (1) if the 
organization— 
‘‘(A) has demonstrated knowledge and ex-
pertise in serving children with autism and 
adults with autism and their families; 
‘‘(B) has demonstrated knowledge of how 
to translate research to practice, and present 
information in a way that is easily accessible 
and understandable to the family members of 
individuals with autism; 
‘‘(C) has demonstrated capacity of training 
educators, health care providers, family mem-
bers, and others to support the needs of individ-
uals with autism or other developmental disabil-
ities; 
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‘‘(D) has demonstrated capacity of dis-
seminating information throughout the United 
States; and 
‘‘(E) has demonstrated capacity to estab-
lish and maintain a website through which to 
disseminate information in an easily accessible 
manner. 
‘‘(3) USE OF FUNDS.—The national technical 
assistance center established under this section 
shall— 
‘‘(A) gather and disseminate information 
on evidence-based treatments, interventions, 
and services for children with autism and adults 
with autism, including best practices in deliv-
ering such treatments, interventions, and serv-
ices, and make this information available to 
State agencies with responsibilities under sec-
tion 399BB(c)(2), local communities, and indi-
viduals; 
‘‘(B) gather and disseminate information 
on activities of the Interagency Autism Coordi-
nating Committee and the Task Force; 
‘‘(C) provide analysis of activities funded 
under this Act, including— 
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‘‘(i) the effectiveness of State and 
community-based models for delivering 
comprehensive services to individuals with 
autism; 
‘‘(ii) identification and dissemination 
of best practices emerging from States, 
community-based organizations, nonprofit 
providers, and local governments receiving 
demonstration grants under this subpart; 
‘‘(iii) the State-by-State availability of 
and gaps in services for individuals with 
autism, including information on services 
or service gaps in rural areas; and 
‘‘(iv) levels of funding and funding 
sources of services for individuals with au-
tism in States; 
‘‘(D) provide technical assistance to States 
and organizations funded under this subpart; 
‘‘(E) gather and disseminate information 
about autism; 
‘‘(F) establish and maintain a website 
through which to disseminate the information 
gathered under this section in an easily acces-
sible manner; and 
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‘‘(G) gather and disseminate other infor-
mation as determined appropriate by the Sec-
retary. 
‘‘(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$2,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 
2012.’’. 
Æ 
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