AB 1112, as introduced, Ammiano. Developmental services: habilitation.
Existing law provides that an adult who receives services for the developmentally disabled must be provided habilitation services, which include services provided under the Supported Employment Program, when he or she satisfies specified eligibility requirements. Under existing law, providers of individualized or group-supported employment services must be paid an hourly rate of $30.82. Existing law also requires that a program provider be paid specified, additional fees under certain circumstances.
This bill would instead require that the hourly rate paid to providers of individualized and group-supported employment services be consistent with the Department of Rehabilitation rate structure policy. The bill would also require that the specified, additional fees paid to program providers under existing law be consistent with the fee structure established by the Department of Rehabilitation.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 4860 of the Welfare and Institutions Code
2 is amended to read:
(a) (1) The hourly rate for supported employment
4services provided to consumers receiving individualized services
5shall bebegin delete thirty dollars and eighty-two cents ($30.82)end deletebegin insert consistent
6with the Department of Rehabilitation rate structure policyend insert.
7(2) Job coach hours spent in travel to consumer worksites may
8be reimbursable for individualized services only when the job
9coach travels from the vendor’s headquarters to the consumer’s
10worksite or from one consumer’s worksite to another, and only
11when the travel is one way.
12(b) The hourly rate for group services shall bebegin delete thirty dollars and begin insert
consistent with the Department of
13eighty-two cents ($30.82),end delete
14Rehabilitation rate structure policy,end insert regardless of the number of
15consumers served in the group. Consumers in a group shall be
16scheduled to start and end work at the same time, unless an
17exception that takes into consideration the consumer’s compensated
18work schedule is approved in advance by the regional center. The
19department, in consultation with stakeholders, shall adopt
20regulations to define the appropriate grounds for granting these
21exceptions. When the number of consumers in a supported
22employment placement group drops to fewer than the minimum
23required in subdivision (r) of Section 4851, the regional center
24may terminate funding for the group services in that group, unless,
25within 90 days, the program provider adds one or more regional
26centers, or Department of Rehabilitation-funded supported
27employment consumers to the group.
28(c) Job coaching hours for group
services shall be allocated on
29a prorated basis between a regional center and the Department of
30Rehabilitation when regional center and Department of
31Rehabilitation consumers are served in the same group.
32(d) When Section 4855 applies, fees shall be authorized for the
33following:
34(1) A three-hundred-sixty-dollar ($360) fee shall be paid to the
35program provider upon intake of a consumer into a supported
36employment program. No fee shall be paid if that consumer
37completed a supported employment intake process with that same
38supported employment program within the previous 12 months.
P3 1(2) A seven-hundred-twenty-dollar ($720) fee shall be paid
2upon placement of a consumer in an integrated job, except that no
3fee shall be paid if that consumer is placed with another consumer
4or consumers assigned to the same job coach during the same hours
5of employment.
6(3) A seven-hundred-twenty-dollar ($720) fee shall be paid after
7a 90-day retention of a consumer in a job,
except that no fee shall
8be paid if that consumer has been placed with another consumer
9or consumers, assigned to the same job coach during the same
10hours of employment.
11(e) Notwithstanding paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section
124648, the regional center shall pay the supported employment
13program rates established by this section.
14(d) When Section 4855 applies, fees for services provided
15through the regional center shall be consistent with the fee for that
16service established by the Department of Rehabilitation.
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