Bill Text: CA SB596 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: In-home supportive services: additional higher energy allowance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-08-29 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4439.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. [SB596 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB596-Amended.html
Bill Title: In-home supportive services: additional higher energy allowance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-08-29 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4439.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. [SB596 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB596-Amended.html
Amended
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January 15, 2020 |
Amended
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January 06, 2020 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 596
Introduced by Senator Stern |
February 22, 2019 |
An act to add Section 12301.18 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to in-home supportive services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 596, as amended, Stern.
In-home supportive services: additional higher energy allowance.
Existing law establishes the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, administered by the State Department of Social Services and counties, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes.
Existing law, the Public Utilities Act, requires the Public Utilities Commission to designate a baseline quantity of electricity and gas necessary for a significant portion of the reasonable energy needs of the average residential customer, and to establish a higher energy allowance above the baseline for residential customers with specified medical needs, including those residential customers dependent on life-support equipment.
This bill would require a county human services agency to inform each applicant for benefits under
the IHSS program that the applicant may be eligible to receive that higher energy allowance and any advanced notifications that may be provided by a public utility when the public utility plans to deenergize portions of the electrical distribution system or in an emergency. By creating additional duties for counties, 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 the statutory provisions noted above.