Bill Text: CA AB675 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 675 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: In-home supportive services.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB675 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB675-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 675

Introduced by Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas

February 15, 2017

An act relating to Medi-Cal, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 675, as introduced, Ridley-Thomas. Medi-Cal: in-home supportive services: funding.

Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed by, and funded pursuant to, federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law, the Coordinated Care Initiative, provides, among other things, that long-term services and supports, including in-home supportive services (IHSS), are a Medi-Cal benefit available through managed care health plans in specified counties.

This bill would appropriate $650,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for the purpose of continuing to make IHSS available to Medi-Cal beneficiaries through Medi-Cal managed care health plans under the Coordinated Care Initiative.

Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

The sum of six hundred fifty million dollars ($650,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Health Care Services for the purpose of continuing the provision of in-home supportive services as a benefit available through Medi-Cal managed care health plans in Coordinated Care Initiative counties pursuant to Section 14186.35 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.