California 2013-2014 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 67 — In-home supportive services.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 4, Statutes of 2013.

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    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
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    Passed Senate
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    Passed Assembly
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 10, 2013. Enacted.

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Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 3 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with services to permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to implement, under specified circumstances, a 20% reduction in authorized hours of service to each IHSS recipient, beginning January 1, 2012, except as specified. This bill would delete those provisions. Existing law requires the department, until July 1, 2013, to implement a 3.6% reduction in authorized hours of service to each IHSS recipient, as specified. This bill would require the department, from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014, inclusive, to implement an 8% reduction in authorized hours of service to each IHSS recipient, as specified. The bill would authorize a county to administratively deny a request for reassessment based only on that reduction. The bill would require a specified notice to be mailed to the recipient at least 10 days before the reduction goes into effect. The bill would also require the department, beginning July 1, 2014, to implement a 7% reduction in authorized hours of service to each IHSS recipient, as specified. The bill would require a specified notice to be mailed to the recipient at least 20 days before the reduction goes into effect. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to authorize an assessment on home care services, including, but not limited to, home health care and in-home supportive services. This bill would require the Director of Finance, within 30 days after receipt of specified certification from the State Department of Health Care Services, to, among other things, estimate the total amount of additional funding that would be derived from that assessment for the next fiscal year and calculate, as a percentage, the amount by which the 7% reduction in authorized hours of service for each IHSS recipient is offset by General Fund savings from that assessment. The bill would require the department to perform these activities for the fiscal year that the certification is received and the following fiscal year, and on or before May 14, prior to the 3rd fiscal year after the certification is received. The bill would require the 7% reduction in authorized hours of services to be mitigated by the percentage offset determined by the Director of Finance, as specified. The bill would provide for these provisions to become operative only upon certification by the State Department of Health Care Services that any necessary federal approvals have been obtained. This bill would create the In-Home Supportive Services Reinvestment Fund to receive moneys to the extent that the assessment is implemented retroactively, and use those moneys to provide goods or services for one-time direct reinvestments benefiting IHSS recipients, as prescribed. The bill would require the Director of Finance to consult with specified plaintiffs to develop a plan to reinvest those funds, and require that plan to be submitted to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. The bill would require the Director of Finance to provide specified notice to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee at least 30 days prior to allocating any of those funds, as prescribed. The bill would, subject to specified conditions, continuously appropriate the moneys in the fund to the department for these purposes. Existing law authorizes a county board of supervisors to elect to contract with a nonprofit consortium to provide for the delivery of IHSS or to establish a public authority to provide for the delivery of IHSS. Under existing law, the state is required to pay 65%, and the county 35%, of the nonfederal share of wage and benefit increases negotiated by a public authority or nonprofit consortium, as specified. Existing law, operative July 1, 2009, requires the state to participate in those wage and benefit increases in a total cost of wages up to $9.50 per hour and in individual health benefits up to $0.60 per hour. Existing law provides that those provisions establishing those rates of participation shall not be implemented until July 1, 2012, and shall only be implemented if specified conditions are met. This bill would delete those latter provisions. Under existing law, the department is required to develop a uniform needs assessment tool to ensure that IHSS are delivered in all counties in a uniform manner. Existing law requires the uniform needs assessment tool to evaluate the recipient's functioning in activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living and quantifies the recipient's functioning ranks using a general 5-point scale for ranking each function, as specified. Under existing law, beginning September 1, 2009, only individuals who are ranked at a 4 or 5 in the activity of daily living relating to a domestic or related service are eligible for that service, except as specified. This bill would delete those latter provisions. Under existing law, beginning September 1, 2009, eligibility for IHSS shall also include functional index scores, which are assigned to a recipient as a weighted average based on his or her individual functional index rankings. Existing law, except as specified, provides that individuals with certain functional index scores are not eligible for IHSS. This bill would delete those provisions. The bill would appropriate $1,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Social Services for its administrative costs during the 2013–14 fiscal year. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Care Services to adopt emergency regulations to implement the bill's provisions, as specified. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 4, Statutes of 2013.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

  4. In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 19. Page 1524.) Ordered to the Senate.

  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  7. Ordered to second reading.

  8. Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 50. Noes 18. Page 1444.)

  9. Referred to Com. on BUDGET.

  10. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  11. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 9. Page 901.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  12. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  13. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 4. Page 880.) (May 9).

  14. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.

  15. (Corrected May 9).

  16. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  17. Set for hearing May 9 in B. & F.R. pending receipt.

  18. Referred to Com. on RLS.

  19. From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.

  20. (Corrected May 9).

  21. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 6 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

SB 67 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD

Passed 53 Yea · 19 Nay · 6 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 471505
Democratic 5101
Republican 1300
Total 531906
% of votes cast 68%24%0%8%
How each member voted (78)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Holden — Not Voting
Linder — Nay
Logue — Not Voting
Maienschein — Nay
Mansoor — Nay
Skinner — Yea
Waldron — Not Voting
Wilk — Nay
Conway — Nay
Fox — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Gorell — Nay
John A. Pérez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Hall — Not Voting
Campos — Yea
Harkey — Nay
Jones-Sawyer — Not Voting
Levine — Yea
Chau — Yea
Melendez — Nay
Bigelow — Nay
Chesbro — Yea
Chávez — Nay
Cooley — Yea
Donnelly — Nay
Morrell — Nay
Mullin — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Olsen — Nay
Pan — Yea
Perea — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Ting — Yea
Wagner — Nay
Weber — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Williams — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Stone — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Gray — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Medina — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Daly — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Beth Gaines — Nay
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Nay
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting
Fong, Mike Democratic Yea
Garcia, Robert Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay
Patterson, Joe Republican Nay

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3rd Reading SB67 Committee on B. & F.R.

Passed 24 Yea · 9 Nay · 5 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 22904
Democratic 2001
Total 24905
% of votes cast 63%24%0%13%
How each member voted (38)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Nay
Block — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Lara — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nielsen — Nay
Steinberg — Yea
Walters — Not Voting
Wolk — Yea
Wright — Yea
Evans — Yea
Correa — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
De León — Yea
Beall — Yea
Leno — Yea
Liu — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Roth — Yea
Yee — Yea
Wyland — Nay
Cannella — Nay
Emmerson — Nay
Huff — Nay
Knight — Nay
Lieu — Not Voting
Price — Not Voting
DeSaulnier — Yea
Fuller — Nay
Hancock — Yea
Beth Gaines — Not Voting
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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Do pass.

Passed 10 Yea · 4 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 9402
Democratic 1000
Total 10402
% of votes cast 63%25%0%13%
How each member voted (16)
Member Party Vote
Block — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Wright — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Anderson — Nay
Beall — Yea
Leno — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nielsen — Nay
Price — Not Voting
Roth — Yea
Wyland — Nay
Emmerson — Nay
Hancock — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Not Voting
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 67 do?
Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with services to permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to implement, under specified circumstances, a 20% reduction in authorized hours of service to each IHSS recipient, beginning January 1, 2012, except as specified. This bill would delete those provisions. Existing law requires the department, until July 1, 2013, to implement a 3.6% reduction in authorized hours of service to each IHSS recipient, as specified. This bill would require the department, from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014, inclusive, to implement an 8% reduction in authorized hours of service to each IHSS recipient, as specified. The bill would authorize a county to administratively deny a request for reassessment based only on that reduction. The bill would require a specified notice to be mailed to the recipient at least 10 days before the reduction goes into effect. The bill would also require the department, beginning July 1, 2014, to implement a 7% reduction in authorized hours of service to each IHSS recipient, as specified. The bill would require a specified notice to be mailed to the recipient at least 20 days before the reduction goes into effect. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to authorize an assessment on home care services, including, but not limited to, home health care and in-home supportive services. This bill would require the Director of Finance, within 30 days after receipt of specified certification from the State Department of Health Care Services, to, among other things, estimate the total amount of additional funding that would be derived from that assessment for the next fiscal year and calculate, as a percentage, the amount by which the 7% reduction in authorized hours of service for each IHSS recipient is offset by General Fund savings from that assessment. The bill would require the department to perform these activities for the fiscal year that the certification is received and the following fiscal year, and on or before May 14, prior to the 3rd fiscal year after the certification is received. The bill would require the 7% reduction in authorized hours of services to be mitigated by the percentage offset determined by the Director of Finance, as specified. The bill would provide for these provisions to become operative only upon certification by the State Department of Health Care Services that any necessary federal approvals have been obtained. This bill would create the In-Home Supportive Services Reinvestment Fund to receive moneys to the extent that the assessment is implemented retroactively, and use those moneys to provide goods or services for one-time direct reinvestments benefiting IHSS recipients, as prescribed. The bill would require the Director of Finance to consult with specified plaintiffs to develop a plan to reinvest those funds, and require that plan to be submitted to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. The bill would require the Director of Finance to provide specified notice to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee at least 30 days prior to allocating any of those funds, as prescribed. The bill would, subject to specified conditions, continuously appropriate the moneys in the fund to the department for these purposes. Existing law authorizes a county board of supervisors to elect to contract with a nonprofit consortium to provide for the delivery of IHSS or to establish a public authority to provide for the delivery of IHSS. Under existing law, the state is required to pay 65%, and the county 35%, of the nonfederal share of wage and benefit increases negotiated by a public authority or nonprofit consortium, as specified. Existing law, operative July 1, 2009, requires the state to participate in those wage and benefit increases in a total cost of wages up to $9.50 per hour and in individual health benefits up to $0.60 per hour. Existing law provides that those provisions establishing those rates of participation shall not be implemented until July 1, 2012, and shall only be implemented if specified conditions are met. This bill would delete those latter provisions. Under existing law, the department is required to develop a uniform needs assessment tool to ensure that IHSS are delivered in all counties in a uniform manner. Existing law requires the uniform needs assessment tool to evaluate the recipient's functioning in activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living and quantifies the recipient's functioning ranks using a general 5-point scale for ranking each function, as specified. Under existing law, beginning September 1, 2009, only individuals who are ranked at a 4 or 5 in the activity of daily living relating to a domestic or related service are eligible for that service, except as specified. This bill would delete those latter provisions. Under existing law, beginning September 1, 2009, eligibility for IHSS shall also include functional index scores, which are assigned to a recipient as a weighted average based on his or her individual functional index rankings. Existing law, except as specified, provides that individuals with certain functional index scores are not eligible for IHSS. This bill would delete those provisions. The bill would appropriate $1,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Social Services for its administrative costs during the 2013–14 fiscal year. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Care Services to adopt emergency regulations to implement the bill's provisions, as specified. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
Who sponsors SB 67?
SB 67 is sponsored by Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review.
What is the current status of SB 67?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 10, 2013. Enacted.
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