Bill Text: CA AB643 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Public aid programs: eligibility: change of residence.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-08-27 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB643 Detail]
Download: California-2009-AB643-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 643 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 30, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 1, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Skinner
( Coauthors: Assembly Members
Ammiano and Saldana )
( Coauthor: Senator Leno
)
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
An act to amend Section 11053 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to public social services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 643, as amended, Skinner. Public aid programs: eligibility:
change of residence.
Existing law establishes a statewide program to enable eligible
low-income persons to receive food stamps under the federal
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the
Food Stamp Program. Existing law requires counties to implement the
program, including determining eligibility and distributing food
stamps.
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by
the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified
low-income persons are provided with health care services.
Under existing law, a recipient of aid, as defined, who is
changing residence from one county to another within the state is
required to promptly notify the county paying aid to the recipient of
the move, and to apply for a redetermination of eligibility within
the new county of residence. Existing law imposes various
requirements on the relevant counties, including requiring the county
to which the recipient has moved to determine the recipient's
continued eligibility for payment of aid and, to the extent possible,
the recipient's eligibility for the Medi-Cal program.
This bill would , beginning on July 1, 2010, for households
receiving benefits under SNAP and the CalWORKs program or the
Medi-Cal program, or both, and on January 1, 2011, for a
ll other households receiving benefits under SNAP, specify that
aid, for purposes of the provisions relating to a recipient's change
of residence, includes benefits under the Food Stamp
Program SNAP .
To the extent that it would increase the duties of county
officials that administer public aid programs, including the Medi-Cal
program and the federal Food Stamp Program
SNAP , 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 11053 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
11053. (a) It shall be the responsibility of a recipient changing
residence from one county to another within the state to promptly
notify the county paying aid to the recipient of the move and to
apply for a redetermination of eligibility within the new county of
residence. The first county shall notify the second county of the
recipient's recipient's move as soon as
the recipient's location in the second county is known. The county
to which the recipient has moved shall be responsible for determining
the recipient's continued eligibility for payment of aid and, to the
extent possible, as determined by the Director of Health Care
Services, eligibility for the Medi-Cal program, as of the first day
of the month following 30 days after the first county has notified
the second county of the recipient's relocation. The first county
shall provide the second county with copies of those documents, as
specified by the department, necessary to establish current
eligibility and grant amount.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 10052, or for
purposes of this section, "aid" includes benefits paid pursuant
to Article 9 (commencing with Section 18900) of Chapter 10 of Part
6.
(c) The amendments made to this section by the act adding this
subdivision shall be implemented on the following dates:
(1) On July 1, 2010, for households receiving benefits pursuant to
Article 9 (commencing with Section 18900) of Chapter 10 of Part 6,
in which at least one individual also is receiving benefits under the
CalWORKs program or the Medi-Cal program, or both.
(2) On January 1, 2011, for all households receiving benefits
pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 18900) of Chapter 10
of Part 6.
(d) The Legislature finds and declares that the delayed
implementation of the amendments to this section by the act that adds
this subdivision will allow counties to fold any training and
software upgrades into their regularly scheduled training and
computer reprogramming.
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.
