Bill Text: CA AB1248 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Institutional purchasers: purchase of California-grown agricultural products.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-02 - Re-referred to Com. on G.O. [AB1248 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB1248-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1248

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Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia

February 21, 2019

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An act to amend Section 9546 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1248, as introduced, Eduardo Garcia. Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act.

Existing law requires the California Department of Aging to administer the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act, which establishes and provides funding for various programs that serve older individuals. Among the programs provided for under that act is the Respite Program, which, among other things, provides temporary or periodic services for frail elderly or functionally impaired adults to relieve care providers. Existing law requires direct service contractors participating in the program to carry out one or more of the following functions: (1) in acting as a respite care information and referral agency, recruit and screen respite providers and match respite providers to clients, (2) arrange for and purchase rclass="ActionLine">

SECTION 1.

 Section 9546 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:

9546.

 (a) The purpose of the Respite Program shall be to provide temporary or periodic services for frail elderly or functionally impaired adults to relieve persons who are providing care, or recruitment and screening of providers and matching respite providers to clients.

(b) Direct services contractors shall do either one two or more of the following:

(1) In acting as a respite care information and referral agency, recruiting and screening respite providers and matching respite providers to clients. Respite care registries shall consist of the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of providers, including, but not limited to, individual caregivers, volunteers, adult day care daycare services, including adult day health care services and services provided by licensed residential care facilities for the elderly.

(2) Arranging for and purchasing respite services for program participants.

(3) Maintaining a systematic means of capturing and reporting all required community-based services program data.

(c) This section shall be implemented only to the extent that funds are appropriated for its purposes in the annual Budget Act or in another statute.