BILL NUMBER: SB 142	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 30, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 2, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Maldonado

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2009

   An act to add Section 12301.22 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to public social services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 142, as amended, Maldonado. In-home supportive services:
provider timesheets.
   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.
   Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services is
required, in consultation and coordination with county welfare
departments, to establish and implement statewide hourly task
guidelines and instructions to provide counties with a standard tool
for consistently and accurately assessing service needs and
authorizing service hours to meet those needs.
   This bill would require the department  to revise the
standardized timesheet used to track the work performed by IHSS
providers to require that the specific times worked by the provider
be recorded, rather than the total hours worked. The bill would
require provider timesheets to be submitted to the county within 30
days of providing the services recorded on the timesheet. 

   Existing law requires the department to be responsible for
procuring and implementing a new Case Management Information and
Payroll System (CMIPS) for the IHSS program, as specified. 
    This bill would be implemented only when the department
has procured and implemented the new CMIPS, but in no event later
than December 31, 2010   ,on or before December 31, 20
  11, to develop and implement procedures to ensure that a
provider of services under this article receives a list specifying
the approved duties to be performed for each recipient under the
provider's care  .
   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 12301.22 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:  12301.22. (a) The department
shall revise the standardized timesheet used to track the work
performed by providers of services under this article, to require the
specific times worked by the provider to be recorded, rather than
the total hours worked.   (b) A provider timesheet
shall be submitted to the county within 30 days of providing the
services recorded on the timesheet.   (c) This
section shall be implemented only when the department has procured
and implemented the new Case Management Information and Payroll
System (CMIPS) provided for in Section 12317, but in no event later
than December 31, 2010. 
   12301.22.  On or before December 31, 2011, the department, in
consultation with county welfare departments and other stakeholders,
shall develop and implement a process to ensure that a provider of
services under this article receives a list specifying the approved
duties to be performed for each recipient under the provider's care.