The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the amendments to the social services and social assistance law to make social services and social assistance Act (the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 2002, nr. 23; 2003; 2004, nr. 2, 14. No; 2005, nr. 2), the amendments are as follows: 1. Article 1: expressions of paragraph 5 by the following: "5) group House (apartment), a separate apartment or House in which persons with mental disabilities provide individual support to social problems;"
turn off paragraph 15, the words "Government owned";
to supplement the article with 27, 28 and 29 the following: "27) half-way house: social rehabilitation institutions in which persons with mental disabilities provide short-term social rehabilitation services;
28) Advisory support for social work specialist (power): a social work specialist operation for a set of methods with the aim of improving their professional competence and give him psychological support to improve the quality of work;
29) victims of human trafficking: a person recognised as a victim of an offence or the trafficking in which the competent institution has issued a statement that it has suffered trafficking in a foreign country, as well as the person that the victims of trafficking the criteria recognised social services. "
2. in article 3: make the second paragraph as follows: "(2) social services and social assistance receipt, the order is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers and Municipal Council (Council).";
to supplement the article with the third part as follows: "(3) the order in which the receiving local government social services provided to the local binding rules."
3. Replace article 8, second paragraph, the words "and the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7" and the words "with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8".
4. Supplement article 9 with the sixth part as follows: "(6) the municipality is obliged to provide advisory support to the municipal social services and its established social services social work professionals."
5. Express article 10 the third paragraph as follows: "(3) if the administrative borders of the municipality population not exceeding 3000, the Municipal Council (the Council) may not create local government social services. If the municipality does not create social services, article 11 of this law for the tasks referred to in providing Municipal Council (the Council) or its delegated institution municipal binding rules. "
6. Article 13: supplement the first subparagraph of paragraph 4, after the word "bodies" by the words "persons and minors";
Add to paragraph 7 of the first paragraph with a sentence by the following: "receiving the social rehabilitation of the procedures and criteria for the recognition of persons victims of trafficking shall be established by the Cabinet of Ministers."
to supplement the article with the fifth and sixth the following: "(5) the State shall participate in the persons with mental disabilities Group provided for House (apartment) and half-way houses, and the financing of it equipment in the year of the establishment of 50 percent, according to the annual State budget appropriations allocated by law.
(6) the State participates with the group stays in a House (apartment), the financing of the expenditure relating to 50 percent discount from the per person provided long-term social care and social rehabilitation institutions carrying costs for persons with mental disabilities, who returns from a long-term social care and social rehabilitation institutions. Co-financing and procedure determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. "
7. Replace article 25, first paragraph, point 4, the words "retirement age" with the word "minor".
8. Express article 26, first paragraph as follows: "(1) the right to receive vocational rehabilitation services are persons in working age, if they have a particular disability and the health and integrity of the State medical examiner's Commission recommendation to learn a profession."
9. To supplement the law with article 27.1 the following: ' article 27.1. Group home (apartment), half-way houses and service apartments service (1) group in the House (flat) provide housing and support in solving social problems of persons with mental disabilities who have objective difficulties to live independently, but do not require the location of long social care and social rehabilitation institution.
(2) half-way house provides short-term social rehabilitation services for persons with mental disabilities, which do not require the location of lasting social care and social rehabilitation institution in order to learn the skills for independent living or living group home (apartment).
(3) the person for the service apartment with severe functional disabilities provides independent living facilities, increasing the person's social functioning and self-care ability. "
10. in article 28: make the second part of paragraph 1 by the following: "1 person endangers other persons) health, life or systematically violates the terms of the contract;"
Add to the second part of paragraph 3 with the following: "3) person asked to discontinue the provision of services.";
make the third paragraph as follows: "(3) of this article, in the cases referred to in the second subparagraph of decision on suspension of the service adopted the head of the institution concerned, if the municipality from where the budget is paid for this service or administrative territory of which the person lived before joining the institution is certified, in writing, that the person concerned will be provided accommodation in the municipal administrative territory."
11. Turn off the article 30, first paragraph, last sentence.
12. transitional provisions: to supplement paragraph 3 subparagraph 2, after the word "years" with the words "and children with mental and physical disabilities to four years";
adding to the transitional provisions in paragraph 11 and 12 with the following: "this law amendment 11 article 13, first paragraph, point 4 as regards minors, article 13, first paragraph, point 7, in respect of the receipt of social rehabilitation of procedures and criteria for the recognition of the person of the victims of trafficking, the fifth and sixth paragraph shall enter into force on 1 January 2007.
12. Article 9 of this law, sixth paragraph, which establishes the municipalities to provide advisory support to social work experts, shall enter into force:

1) on 1 January 2007, for social work professionals who are social workers;
2) 2008 1 January — for the social work professionals who are social carers, social rehabilitētāj and social assistance the organizers. "
The Parliament adopted the law of 25 May 2006.
State v. President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in Riga on 14 June 2006 Editorial Note: the law shall enter into force on 28 June 2006.