BILL NUMBER: AB 1112	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 4860 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to developmental services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 4860 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   4860.  (a) (1) The hourly rate for supported employment services
provided to consumers receiving individualized services shall be
 thirty dollars and eighty-two cents ($30.82)  
consistent with the Department of Rehabilitation rate structure
policy  .
   (2) Job coach hours spent in travel to consumer worksites may be
reimbursable for individualized services only when the job coach
travels from the vendor's headquarters to the consumer's worksite or
from one consumer's worksite to another, and only when the travel is
one way.
   (b) The hourly rate for group services shall be  thirty
dollars and eighty-two cents ($30.82),   consistent with
the Department of Rehabilitation rate structure policy, 
regardless of the number of consumers served in the group. Consumers
in a group shall be scheduled to start and end work at the same time,
unless an exception that takes into consideration the consumer's
compensated work schedule is approved in advance by the regional
center. The department, in consultation with stakeholders, shall
adopt regulations to define the appropriate grounds for granting
these exceptions. When the number of consumers in a supported
employment placement group drops to fewer than the minimum required
in subdivision (r) of Section 4851, the regional center may terminate
funding for the group services in that group, unless, within 90
days, the program provider adds one or more regional centers, or
Department of Rehabilitation-funded supported employment consumers to
the group.
   (c) Job coaching hours for group services shall be allocated on a
prorated basis between a regional center and the Department of
Rehabilitation when regional center and Department of Rehabilitation
consumers are served in the same group. 
   (d) When Section 4855 applies, fees shall be authorized for the
following:  
   (1) A three-hundred-sixty-dollar ($360) fee shall be paid to the
program provider upon intake of a consumer into a supported
employment program. No fee shall be paid if that consumer completed a
supported employment intake process with that same supported
employment program within the previous 12 months.  
   (2) A seven-hundred-twenty-dollar ($720) fee shall be paid upon
placement of a consumer in an integrated job, except that no fee
shall be paid if that consumer is placed with another consumer or
consumers assigned to the same job coach during the same hours of
employment.  
   (3) A seven-hundred-twenty-dollar ($720) fee shall be paid after a
90-day retention of a consumer in a job, except that no fee shall be
paid if that consumer has been placed with another consumer or
consumers, assigned to the same job coach during the same hours of
employment.  
   (e) Notwithstanding paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section
4648, the regional center shall pay the supported employment program
rates established by this section.  
   (d) When Section 4855 applies, fees for services provided through
the regional center shall be consistent with the fee for that service
established by the Department of Rehabilitation.