Bill Text: CA AB1183 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1183 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Seniors: Multipurpose Senior Services Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - Died at Desk. [AB1183 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1183-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1183	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Sections 9562 and 9565 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, relating to seniors.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1183, as introduced, Bonnie Lowenthal. Seniors: Multipurpose
Senior Services Program.
   Existing law, the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act,
establishes the Multipurpose Senior Services Program to provide
specified services to frail elderly individuals 65 years of age and
older who are certifiable for placement in a nursing facility.
Existing law requires the California Department of Aging to
administer the program in accordance with an interagency agreement
with the State Department of Health Care Services.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 9562 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   9562.  (a) This chapter shall be administered by the department,
under the authority of an approved interagency agreement with the
State Department of Health  Care  Services, the single state
 medicaid   Medicaid  agency.
   (b) To the extent permitted by federal law, each department within
the  California  Health and  Welfare  
Human Services  Agency  ,  including departments
designated as single state agencies for the programs described in
Section 9561, shall waive regulations and general policies and make
resources available which are necessary for the administration of
this chapter, upon request of the agency.
  SEC. 2.  Section 9565 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   9565.  The department shall do all of the following:
   (a) Enter into agreements and negotiated contracts with 
any   a  nonprofit organization or governmental
entity to operate the local sites, consistent with the criteria
adopted pursuant to Section 9563. In letting these contracts, the
department shall not anticipate future appropriations.
   (b) Make grants to local sites from available funds.
   (c) Monitor local sites.
   (d) Cause the service sites to be evaluated in accordance with the
established criteria.
   (e) Seek and utilize any available federal, state, or private
funds that may be available for carrying out the purposes of this
chapter.
   (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, local sites
established pursuant to this chapter may contract with the Director
of Health  Care  Services as Medi-Cal programs pursuant to
Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200) of Part 3 of Division 9.
Contracts with the local sites shall be deemed to be for the purposes
specified in Section 14494, and may utilize funds appropriated from
the Health Care Deposit Fund pursuant to Section 14157.
   (g) Assist in coordinating local site programs with local
governmental programs and services for older individuals.