BILL NUMBER: AB 836	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bass

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2007

   An act to add Section 12304.7 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to public social services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 836, as introduced, Bass. In-home supportive services
providers: pay warrants.
   Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home
Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged,
blind, and disabled persons are provided with services in order to
permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid
institutionalization.
   Existing law permits services to be provided under the IHSS
program either through the employment of individual providers, a
contract between the county and an entity for the provision of
services, the creation by the county of a public authority, or a
contract between the county and a nonprofit consortium.
   Existing law requires the Controller to install and operate a
uniform state payroll system for all state agencies, except as
specified. Existing law also imposes various duties on the Controller
with respect to the payment of IHSS provider wages.
   This bill would require the Controller, between January 1 and
April 15 of each year, to include a notice on all payroll warrants
issued to IHSS providers informing those providers that they may
qualify for the federal earned income tax credit.
   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 12304.7 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
   12304.7.  Between January 1 and April 15 of each year, the
Controller shall include a notice on all payroll warrants issued to
providers of services under this chapter informing those providers
that they may qualify for the federal earned income tax credit, as
provided for in Section 32 of the Internal Revenue Code.