AB 987,
as amended, begin deleteJonesend delete begin insertMaienscheinend insert. Personal and Home Care Aide training program.
Existing law requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to prepare a Health Manpower Plan for California. Existing law also provides various programs to develop the health care workforce.
This bill would require the Secretary of State and Consumer Services to submit an application on behalf of the state to the federal Department of Health and Human Services to receive a 3-year grant to establish a Personal and Home Care Aide training program, as specified, that would include opportunities for honorably discharged veterans in California.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 128300)
2is added to Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and
3Safety Code, to read:
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(a) The Secretary of State and Consumer Services
8shall submit an application on behalf of the state to the federal
9Department of Health and Human Services to receive a three-year
10grant to establish a Personal and Home Care Aide training program,
11as provided in Sections 4002 and 5507(b) of the federalbegin insert Patient
12Protection and end insert Affordable Care Actbegin insert (Public Law 111-148)end insert.
13(b) The secretary shall write the application so that the program
14includes opportunities for honorably discharged veterans in
15California to be hired in the training program.
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