Bill Text: CA AB1313 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Older individuals: case management services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB1313 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1313-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1313
| Introduced by Assembly Member Ortega (Coauthor: Assembly Member Connolly) |
February 16, 2023 |
An act to add and repeal Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 9580) to of Division 8.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to aging.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1313, as amended, Ortega.
Older individuals: case management services.
Existing law requires the California Department of Aging to administer the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act, which establishes various programs that serve older individuals, defined as persons 60 years of age or older except as specified. The act requires the department to designate various private nonprofit or public agencies as area agencies on aging to work within a planning and service area and provide a broad array of social and nutritional services. Under the act, the department’s mission is to provide leadership to those agencies in developing systems of home- and community-based services that maintain individuals in their own homes or least restrictive homelike environments.
This bill would, until January 1, 2030, and
subject to an appropriation, require the department to establish a case management services pilot program. Under the bill, the purpose of the program would be to expand statewide the local capacity of supportive services programs by providing case management services to older individuals who need assistance to maintain health and economic stability. The bill would require the Counties of Alameda, Marin, and Sonoma to participate in the pilot program.
The bill would require the 3 counties to coordinate with their respective area agencies on aging or other county or community-based entities to deliver the services. The bill would also require those counties to measure performance outcomes during the course of implementing the program and to submit periodic reports to the department, with the aim of informing and shaping
program. The bill would require those counties, on an annual basis, for the first 5 years during which an appropriation is made, to submit reports to the department containing data on the performance outcomes, in order to determine program efficacy and to inform and shape solutions under a master plan for aging that has been established pursuant to a specified executive order. By creating new duties for the 3 counties relating to participation in the pilot program, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Alameda, Marin, and Sonoma.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for
making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 9580) is added to Division 8.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:CHAPTER 8.5. Case Management Services
9580.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Case management services help older individuals with complex issues to navigate financial, housing, and care issues and to implement solutions.
(b) Together, these services are powerfully effective at improving health outcomes and preventing crises.
(c) Case management services focus on the social determinants of health and help older individuals to set a plan for stability.
9581.
(a) Subject to an appropriation made for the express purpose of implementing this section, the department shall establish a case management services pilot program. The purpose of the program shall be to expand statewide the local capacity of supportive services programs under this division by providing case management services to older individuals, as defined in Section 9018, who need assistance to maintain health and economic stability.(b) The Counties of Alameda, Marin, and Sonoma shall participate in the pilot program described in subdivision (a).
(c) The three counties participating in the pilot program
shall coordinate with their respective area agencies on aging or other
county or community-based entities to deliver the case management services.
(d)The three participating counties shall measure performance outcomes during the course of implementing this section. The counties shall submit periodic reports to the department containing data on those performance outcomes, with the aim of informing and shaping solutions under the master plan for aging described in Section 9850.
(d) (1) The three participating counties shall measure performance outcomes during the course of implementing this
section.
(2) On an annual basis, for the first five years during which an appropriation is made for implementing this section, the participating counties shall submit reports to the department containing data on the performance outcomes, in order to determine the efficacy of the pilot program and to inform and shape solutions under the master plan for aging described in Section 9850.
