BILL NUMBER: AB 836	CHAPTERED  10/10/07

	CHAPTER  397
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 10, 2007
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 10, 2007
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2007
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 30, 2007
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 4, 2007

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, Bass. In-home supportive services providers: tax credit.
   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, and insert an
informational flyer, which shall be prepared by the State Department
of Social Services, with, all payroll warrants issued to IHSS
providers informing those providers that they may qualify for the
federal earned income tax credit.


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, and insert an informational
flyer which shall be prepared by the department, with, 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.