Bill Text: CA AB1112 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Transportation transactions and use taxes: Bay Area.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-10-05 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 595, Statutes of 2013. [AB1112 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1112-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1112	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Maienschein   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 4860 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to developmental services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1112, as amended, Ammiano. Developmental services:
habilitation.
   Existing law provides that an adult who receives services for the
developmentally disabled must be provided habilitation services,
which include services provided under the Supported Employment
Program, when he or she satisfies specified eligibility requirements.
Under existing law,  the Department of Rehabilitation or the
regional center, as applicable, is required to pay  providers of
individualized or group-supported employment services  must
be paid  an hourly rate of $30.82. Existing law also
requires that a program provider be paid  specified,
  specified  additional fees under certain
circumstances.  Existing law further requires the Department of
Rehabilitation to establish and maintain maximum rates of payment for
goods and services, as specified. 
   This bill would  instead  require that 
the hourly rate paid to   those  providers of
individualized and group-supported employment services be 
consistent with the Department of Rehabilitation rate structure
policy.   paid the rates provided in existing law or
  rates established by the Department of Rehabilitation,
whichever are greater.  The bill would also require that
 the specified, additional fees paid to program providers
under existing law be consistent with the fee structure established
by the Department of Rehabilitation.   a program
provider, under certain circumstances, be paid a fee of $700 for
employment preparation services provided to a consumer prior to
placement in an integrated job. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 4860 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   4860.  (a) (1) The hourly rate for supported employment services
provided to consumers receiving individualized services shall be
 consistent with the Department of Rehabilitation rate
structure policy.   thirty dollars and eighty-two cents
($30.82). 
   (2) Job coach hours spent in travel to consumer worksites may be
reimbursable for individualized services only when the job coach
travels from the vendor's headquarters to the consumer's worksite or
from one consumer's worksite to another, and only when the travel is
one way.
   (b) The hourly rate for group services shall be 
consistent with the Department of Rehabilitation rate structure
policy,   thirty dollars and eighty-two cents ($30.82),
 regardless of the number of consumers served in the group.
Consumers in a group shall be scheduled to start and end work at the
same time, unless an exception that takes into consideration the
consumer's compensated work schedule is approved in advance by the
regional center. The department, in consultation with stakeholders,
shall adopt regulations to define the appropriate grounds for
granting these exceptions. When the number of consumers in a
supported employment placement group drops to fewer than the minimum
required in subdivision (r) of Section 4851, the regional center may
terminate funding for the group services in that group, unless,
within 90 days, the program provider adds one or more regional
centers, or Department of Rehabilitation-funded supported employment
consumers to the group.
   (c) Job coaching hours for group services shall be allocated on a
prorated basis between a regional center and the Department of
Rehabilitation when regional center and Department of Rehabilitation
consumers are served in the same group. 
   (d) When Section 4855 applies, fees for services provided through
the regional center shall be consistent with the fee for that service
established by the Department of Rehabilitation.  
   (d) When Section 4855 applies, fees shall be authorized for the
following:  
   (1) A three-hundred-sixty-dollar ($360) fee shall be paid to the
program provider upon intake of a consumer into a supported
employment program. No fee shall be paid if that consumer completed a
supported employment intake process with that same supported
employment program within the previous 12 months.  
   (2) A seven-hundred-dollar ($700) fee shall be paid to the program
provider for employment preparation services provided to a consumer
prior to placement in an integrated job. No fee shall be paid if that
consumer completed an employment preparation process with the same
supported employment program within the previous 12 months. 

   (3) A seven-hundred-twenty-dollar ($720) fee shall be paid upon
placement of a consumer in an integrated job, except that no fee
shall be paid if that consumer is placed with another consumer or
consumers assigned to the same job coach during the same hours of
employment.  
   (4) A seven-hundred-twenty-dollar ($720) fee shall be paid after a
90-day retention of a consumer in a job, except that no fee shall be
paid if that consumer has been placed with another consumer or
consumers, assigned to the same job coach during the same hours of
employment.  
   (e) Notwithstanding paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section
4648, the regional center shall pay the supported employment program
rates established by this section, or rates established by the
Department of Rehabilitation, whichever are greater.