BILL NUMBER: AB 1704	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member La Malfa

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2007

   An act to amend Section 12300.1 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to social services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1704, as introduced, La Malfa. In-home supportive services.
   Existing law provides for the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons
receive services enabling them to remain in their own homes. 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 make technical, nonsubstantive changes.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 12300.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   12300.1.  As used in Section 12300 and in this article,
"supportive services" include those necessary paramedical services
that are ordered by a licensed health care professional who is
lawfully authorized to do so,  which  that 
persons could provide for themselves but for their functional
limitations. Paramedical services include the administration of
medications, puncturing the skin or inserting a medical device into a
body orifice, activities requiring sterile procedures, or other
activities requiring judgment based on training given by a licensed
health care professional. These necessary services shall be rendered
by a provider under the direction of a licensed health care
professional, subject to the informed consent of the recipient
obtained as a part of the order for service. Any and all references
to Section 12300  of this code  in any statute heretofore or
hereafter enacted shall be deemed to  also  be references
to this section. All statutory references to the supportive services
specified in Section 12300 shall be deemed to  also  include
paramedical services.