Amended in Assembly March 19, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 421

Introduced by Assembly Member Williams

(Coauthor: Assembly Member Bocanegra)

February 15, 2013

An act to begin delete amend Section 88643 of the Education end delete begin insert add Chapter 2.7 (commencing with Section 1499.1) to Division 2 of the Health and Safety end insert Code, relating to begin delete economic development end delete begin insert health and home care end insert .

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 421, as amended, Williams. begin delete California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program: Job Development Incentive Training Program. end delete begin insert Health and home care: worker training. end insert

Existing law begin delete , until January 1, 2018, establishes the Job Development Incentive Training Program as a component of the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the Job Development Incentive Training Program provide training on a no-cost or low-cost basis to participating employers who create employment opportunities at an acceptable wage level for the attainment of self-sufficiency by specified aid recipients and low wage earners. Existing law requires a community college that participates in the Job Development Incentive Training Program to inventory its local or regional business community, including nonprofit organizations, and identify industry-driven needs and employment opportunities with a goal of attaining self-sufficiency through workforce reentry, continuous employee training, and skills upgrades. end delete begin insert requires the State Department of Social Services, in consultation and collaboration with others, as specified, to develop a training curriculum for in-home support services providers that addresses issues of consistency, accountability, and increased quality of care for in-home supportive services recipients. end insert

This bill would begin delete make a nonsubstantive change to the latter provision. end delete begin insert require the State Department of Social Services and State Department of Public Health, in consultation and collaboration with others, as specified, to develop a training curriculum for health and home care workers that addresses the above-mentioned issues for health and home care recipients. end insert

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Chapter 2.7 (commencing with Section 1499.1)
is added to Division 2 of the end insert begin insert Health and Safety Code end insert begin insert , to read: end insert

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Chapter   begin insert 2.7. end insert Health and Home Care Worker Training

 

begin insert 1499.1. end insert   

(a) No later than January 1, 2015, the State
Department of Social Services and the State Department of Public
Health, in consultation with the State Department of Health Care
Services, and in collaboration with stakeholders including, but
not limited to, recognized employee representatives, shall develop
a training curriculum for health and home care workers that shall
address issues of consistency, accountability, and increased quality
of care for health and home care recipients.

(b) Participation in the training developed pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall be voluntary.

(c) This section shall not be construed to preclude a managed
care health plan, as part of the care coordination team, from
developing recipient-specific voluntary training curriculum for a
health or home care worker who has been integrated into a
beneficiary’s care coordination team.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 88643 of the Education Code is amended
to read:

88643.  

A community college that participates in the Job
Development Incentive Training Program shall inventory its local
or regional business community, including nonprofit organizations,
and identify industry-driven needs and employment opportunities
with a goal of attaining self-sufficiency through workforce reentry,
continuous employee training, and skills upgrades.

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