BILL NUMBER: AB 1674	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Richardson

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2007

   An act to add Section 12315 to the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to public social services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1674, as introduced, Richardson. In-home supportive services:
pilot project: provider selection.
   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. The State Department of Social Services
administers the program at the state level.
   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.
   This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to
conduct a pilot project in 5 applying counties, to give certain IHSS
recipients the choice of self-directing their care with an existing
provider, or using the support of a provider organization, as
specified.
   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 12315 is added to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, to read:
   12315.  The department shall conduct a pilot project in five
counties that apply to participate, to give recipients of services
under this chapter who are not severely impaired the choice either to
self-direct their care with their existing provider, or to use the
support of a provider organization contracted by the county with the
consent of the public authority.