Bill Text: CA AB954 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Developmental services: habilitation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB954 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB954-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 954	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Maienschein

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 4860 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to developmental services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 954, as introduced, Maienschein. Developmental services:
habilitation.
   Existing law provides that an adult who receives services for the
developmentally disabled must be provided habilitation services,
which include services provided under the Supported Employment
Program, when he or she satisfies specified eligibility requirements.
Existing law provides that, if a consumer is referred for vocational
rehabilitation services and is placed on a waiting list for certain
reasons, the regional renter must authorize appropriate services for
the consumer until services can be provided by the vocational
rehabilitation program. Existing law requires the interim program
provider to be paid a fee of $360 or $720, as specified, to provide
these interim services.
   This bill would increase the hourly rate paid to providers of
individualized and group-supported employment services to $34.24 and
increase the fees paid to the interim program providers to $400 and
$800, respectively.
   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 4860 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   4860.  (a) (1) The hourly rate for supported employment services
provided to consumers receiving individualized services shall be
 thirty dollars and eighty-two cents ($30.82).  
thirty-four dollars and twenty-four cents ($34.24). 
   (2) Job coach hours spent in travel to consumer worksites may be
reimbursable for individualized services only when the job coach
travels from the vendor's headquarters to the consumer's worksite or
from one consumer's worksite to another, and only when the travel is
one way.
   (b) The hourly rate for group services shall be  thirty
dollars and eighty-two cents ($30.82),   thirty-four
dollars and twenty-four cents ($34.24),  regardless of the
number of consumers served in the group. Consumers in a group shall
be scheduled to start and end work at the same time, unless an
exception that takes into consideration the consumer's compensated
work schedule is approved in advance by the regional center. The
department, in consultation with stakeholders, shall adopt
regulations to define the appropriate grounds for granting these
exceptions. When the number of consumers in a supported employment
placement group drops to fewer than the minimum required in
subdivision (r) of Section 4851, the regional center may terminate
funding for the group services in that group, unless, within 90 days,
the program provider adds one or more regional centers, or
Department of Rehabilitation-funded supported employment consumers to
the group.
   (c) Job coaching hours for group services shall be allocated on a
prorated basis between a regional center and the Department of
Rehabilitation when regional center and Department of Rehabilitation
consumers are served in the same group.
   (d) When Section 4855 applies, fees shall be authorized for the
following:
   (1) A  three-hundred-sixty-dollar ($360)  
four hundred dollar ($400)  fee shall be paid to the program
provider upon intake of a consumer into a supported employment
program. No fee shall be paid if that consumer completed a supported
employment intake process with that same supported employment program
within the previous 12 months.
   (2)  A seven-hundred-twenty-dollar ($720)  
An eight hundred dollar ($800)  fee shall be paid upon placement
of a consumer in an integrated job, except that no fee shall be paid
if that consumer is placed with another consumer or consumers
assigned to the same job coach during the same hours of employment.
   (3)  A seven-hundred-twenty-dollar ($720)  
An   eight hundred dollar ($800)  fee shall be paid
after a 90-day retention of a consumer in a job, except that no fee
shall be paid if that consumer has been placed with another consumer
or consumers, assigned to the same job coach during the same hours of
employment.
   (e) Notwithstanding paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section
4648, the regional center shall pay the supported employment program
rates established by this section.