BILL NUMBER: AB 1470	CHAPTERED  09/28/04

	CHAPTER  826
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 28, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 28, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 25, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 24, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 16, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 16, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 2, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2003

   An act to add Section 12304.4 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to in-home supportive services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1470, Ridley-Thomas.  In-home supportive services:  direct
deposit wage payments.
   Existing law provides for the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
program, under which, through employment by the recipient, by or
through contract by the county, or by the creation of a public
authority or pursuant to a contract with a nonprofit consortium,
qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons receive services enabling
them to remain in their own homes.  Under existing law, counties are
responsible for the administration of the program.  Existing law
allows an IHSS recipient who hires and pays his or her service
provider and who has been a recipient for at least a year to receive
his or her IHSS grant through an electronic transfer.
   This bill would allow an IHSS provider to authorize payment to
himself or herself for IHSS services through direct deposit under a
program established by the Controller.
   This bill would require the Controller and the State Department of
Social Services to determine the cost of developing and implementing
the direct deposit program and to collect the cost from a
nongovernmental 3rd-party contractor or the organization, entity, or
individual requesting payment in order to utilize the direct deposit
program.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 12304.4 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
   12304.4.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person
entitled to the receipt of direct payment as an individual provider
pursuant to Section 12302.2 for providing in-home supportive services
may authorize payment to be directly deposited by electronic fund
transfer into the person's account at the financial institution of
his or her choice under a program for direct deposit by electronic
transfer established by the Controller.
   (b) The Controller and the department shall determine the cost of
developing and implementing the direct deposit program identified in
subdivision (a) and shall collect the cost from a nongovernmental
third-party contractor or the organization, entity, or individual
requesting payment in order to utilize the direct deposit program.