Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to increase the
rate of reimbursement paid to community providers of treatment or
services to developmentally disabled individuals beginning July 1,
2002; requiring the Department to determine a disparity amount that is
a calculation of the difference in wages and benefits between
community direct service workers and developmental disabilities
associates or other employees in State residential centers and to
eliminate the disparity amount under the Act; etc.
