4580.5. (Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 12, Sec. 3.)

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) Pursuant to Chapter 47 of the Statutes of 2024 (Assembly Bill No. 162), the Legislature established its intent that the Master Plan for Developmental Services be developed with the intent to strengthen accessibility, quality, and equity for all consumers of the developmental services system and their families, no matter their demographic groups, geographic region, or socioeconomic status.

(2) In 2024, the California Health and Human Services Agency appointed members of the Master Plan for Developmental Services Committee and held roundtable discussions in communities across the state to learn about the lived experiences of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, their families, and system partners.

(3) The California Health and Human Services Agency published the Master Plan for Developmental Services on March 28, 2025. As stated by the California Health and Human Services Agency, the Master Plan for Developmental Services is a community-driven vision with recommendations intended to improve the ways that California supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families into the future. These recommendations will inform California’s ongoing work to provide better developmental services and supports, improve coordination across systems, and increase the attainment of desired life outcomes among individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

(4) The Master Plan for Developmental Services states that the community’s recommendations will inform several State Department of Developmental Services workgroups, including, but not limited to, the Lived Experience Advisory Group, an expanded and renamed group formerly known as the Consumer Advisory Committee, the Quality Incentive Program workgroup, the Regional Center Performance Measures workgroup, and the Quality Assurance Advisory Group.