Emergency action is necessary for the immediate preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of Waiver participants who are in need of individualized day support services. Individualized day supports services provide crucial habilitation supports in the community to ensure that a person’s social skills are enhanced outside of his/her home to foster independence and encourage community integration. These rules are essential because they establish the parameters for the delivery and monitoring of all individualized day supports services. Publishing these rules on an emergency basis will mitigate any potential harm to a person’s welfare that may result from lack of access to these services as set forth in the approved Waiver.

The emergency rulemaking was adopted on August 12, 2013 and became effective on that date. The emergency rules shall remain in effect for one hundred and twenty (120) days or until December 9, 2013, unless superseded by publication of a Notice of Final Rulemaking in the DC Register.