(a) The California Health and Human Services Agency shall develop a long-term care infrastructure blueprint to analyze how information technology could be utilized to do all of the following:

1. (1) Provide consistent information and referrals to consumers’ requests for information on long-term care service availability and eligibility requirements.
2. (2) Develop a core client services record that contains key assessment and care planning information.
3. (3) Transmit core client information from one agency to another when making a service referral.
4. (4) Create a long-term care data warehouse at state level to facilitate state and regional long-term care strategic planning, development, and evaluation.

(b) The blueprint developed shall include all of the following:

1. (1) A technical analysis of the data currently being collected by public long-term care programs.
2. (2) An evaluation of the information technology currently available to accomplish tasks specified in subdivision (a).
3. (3) A cost-benefit analysis of the information technology options identified.
4. (4) A proposal of incremental steps, and the corresponding budgetary outlays, required to develop the long-term care information infrastructure.