Bill Information

An Act amending the act of October 20, 1966 (3rd Sp.Sess., P.L.96, No.6), known as the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Act of 1966, providing for a model program that maximizes utilization of the unique competence of Western Center, a State facility for functionally and mentally retarded Pennsylvanians, integrating its multidisciplinary first step habilitation services with those of public and private community service providers, enabling transition, incrementally, to higher levels of independent employment and residential placements for individual Pennsylvanians disabled by retarding developmental disorders, preserving Western Center's extended care and treatment capability for those with most severely incapacitating disabilities and assuring the primary decision-making role of each retarded individual and his family; and making an appropriation.