BILL NUMBER: AB 2274	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beall

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to amend Section 12304.2 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to in-home supportive services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2274, as introduced, Beall. In-Home Supportive Services
program.
   Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home
Supportive Services (IHSS) 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 allows a recipient who receives
services through either a contract or a managed care provider,
subject to program requirements, to select any qualified person, as
defined, to provide care.
   This bill would also allow a person who receives services as part
of an entity authorized by a specified waiver under the federal
Social Security Act to select any qualified person to provide care.
   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 12304.2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   12304.2.  (a) A recipient who receives services under this article
through  either  a contract  or 
 , a  managed care provider  , or an entity authorized
by a waiver under Section 1115 of the federal Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. Sec. 1315)  may, subject to program requirements, select
any qualified person to provide care under this article.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "qualified person" means
 any   an  employee of the contract
 or   provider,  managed care provider 
, or entity authorized by the federal waiver,  through which
the recipient may receive services under this article  , 
who is available and eligible to provide the services.