Bill Text: CA AB1797 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: In-home supportive services: application.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-21 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 402, Statutes of 2016. [AB1797 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1797-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1797	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 1, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 16, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 25, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Lackey and Weber
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Brown, Gallagher, and Wilk)
   (Coauthor: Senator Runner)

                        FEBRUARY 4, 2016

   An act to add Section 12301.16 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to in-home supportive services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1797, as amended, Lackey. In-home supportive services:
application.
   Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home
Supportive Services program, under which qualified aged, blind, and
disabled persons are provided with services in order to permit them
to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing
law requires the application for in-home supportive services to
contain a notice to the recipient that his or her provider or
providers will be given written notice of the recipient's authorized
services and full number of services hours allotted to the recipient.
Existing law also requires the application to inform recipients of
the Medi-Cal toll-free telephone fraud hotline and Internet Web site
for reporting suspected fraud or abuse in the provision or receipt of
supportive services.
   This bill would require the county, upon receipt of an application
for in-home supportive services, to provide the applicant  with
 a confirmation number, as specified.  The bill would
require the county to process an application within 30 days.
 By creating additional duties for counties, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
   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 these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 12301.16 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
   12301.16.   (a)    Upon receipt
of an application for in-home supportive services, the county shall
provide the applicant  with  a confirmation number to serve
as documentation that the applicant filed an application for in-home
supportive services. The county may use the case number as the
confirmation number. 
   (b) The county shall process an application for in-home supportive
services within 30 days of receipt of the completed application.

  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.