AB 143: Developmental services.

The bill aims to improve developmental services for individuals with developmental disabilities in California. It establishes a more flexible and individualized approach to service delivery, allowing participants to have greater control over their services and budget. The bill also updates the process for allocating funds to participants, requiring regional centers to certify that participants' spending plans meet certain criteria. The bill makes changes to the implicit bias training requirements, stating that the departmental training requirements are subject to an appropriation by the legislature. Regional centers are still required to implement implicit bias training, but to the extent they can, in the absence of a state appropriation. The bill requires providers to be compliant with electronic visit verification, home- and community-based services rules, and fiscal reviews and audit…