Health services: Sonoma Developmental Center.

Under existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, the State Department of Developmental Services contracts with private nonprofit regional centers to provide or purchase services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities. Existing law vests in the department jurisdiction over various state developmental centers, including the Sonoma Developmental Center, for the medical and nursing care of patients with developmental disabilities. Existing law imposes various functions and duties on the Director of Developmental Services with respect to the provision of services for the care and protection of persons with developmental disabilities. This bill would make a consumer from any regional center eligible to receive temporary intensive behavioral intervention services at the Sonoma Developmental Center through the center's existing behavioral treatment units in specified circumstances. The bill would require the regional center to make the determination of whether to provide those services and would specify that the consumer is prohibited from remaining in the Sonoma Developmental Center for a period exceeding 6 months without a review by the regional center and the Sonoma Developmental Center. This bill would require the costs of administering the program to be funded through existing resources of the department. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Sonoma.