Bill Text: CA SB529 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Aging: strategic planning.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB529 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB529-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 529	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 4, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Correa

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Section 9113.5 to the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to seniors.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 529, as amended, Correa. Seniors: community-based services:
long-term care strategic plan.
   Under existing law, the California Department of Aging administers
various community-based programs for seniors, including adult day
health care programs, the Multipurpose Senior Services Program,
linkages, and home-delivered meals. Existing law identifies the
mission of the department to provide leadership to the area agencies
on aging in developing systems of home- and community-based services
that maintain individuals in their own homes or least restrictive
homelike environments.
   This bill would require the department, in consultation with the
California Commission on Aging, the area agencies on aging, and the
Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, to develop a long-term
care strategic plan, as specified, to provide guidance  and
temporary funding  for community-based programs that serve
seniors. The bill would require the department to submit the plan to
the Legislature by July 1,  2012   2013  .

   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 9113.5 is added to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, to read:
   9113.5.  (a) The department, in consultation with the California
Commission on Aging, the area agencies on aging, and the Office of
the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, shall develop a strategic plan to
provide guidance  and temporary funding  for
community-based programs that serve seniors, in accordance with this
section. The department shall submit the strategic plan to the
Legislature by July 1,  2012   2013  .
   (b) The strategic plan shall address all of the following:
   (1) Goals for the state's long-term care system, and statutory and
program changes and actions that will be required to achieve those
goals, including, but not limited to, the establishment of one or
more community-based pilot projects.
   (2) Selection of an appropriate agency to manage the process of
guiding future decisions regarding long-term care, including
appropriate staffing requirements and timelines.
   (3) Services and supports that will make it possible for
individuals with advanced age or disabilities to remain in their
communities and avoid unnecessary institutionalization.
   (4) Short-term, medium-range, and long-term programs recommended
 by  in the November 2009 final report "Home and
Community-Based Long-Term Care: Recommendations to Improve Access for
Californians," prepared for the California Health and Human Services
Agency and California Community Choices.
   (5) The feasibility of enacting a bond measure to provide the
cashflow necessary for a limited period to restore programs that have
been decimated by recent budget cuts, are a means to resolve
immediate funding problems, and facilitate establishment of a
foundation for future long-term care cost reductions.
   (c) (1) The requirement for submitting the strategic plan imposed
under subdivision (a) is inoperative on January 1,  2016
  2017  , pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the
Government Code.
   (2) The strategic plan required to be submitted pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of
the Government Code.