S. 3289, The Children's Mental Health Accessibility Act of 2012

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S. 3289 would expand the Medicaid home and community-based services waiver to include young individuals who are in need of services that would otherwise be required to be provided through a psychiatric residential treatment facility, and to change references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability.

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