AB 1112, as amended, 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,begin insert the Department of Rehabilitation or the regional center, as applicable, is required to payend insert providers of individualized or group-supported employment servicesbegin delete must be paidend delete an hourly rate of $30.82. Existing law also requires that a program provider be paidbegin delete specified,end deletebegin insert
specifiedend insert additional fees under certain circumstances.begin insert Existing law further requires the Department of Rehabilitation to establish and maintain maximum rates of payment for goods and services, as specified.end insert
This bill wouldbegin delete insteadend delete require thatbegin delete the hourly rate paid toend deletebegin insert thoseend insert providers of individualized and group-supported employment services bebegin delete consistent with the Department of Rehabilitation rate structure policy.end deletebegin insert
paid the rates provided in existing law orend insertbegin insert rates established by the Department of Rehabilitation, whichever are greater.end insert The bill would also require thatbegin delete the specified, additional fees paid to program providers under existing law be consistent with the fee structure
established by the Department of Rehabilitation.end deletebegin insert a program provider, under certain circumstances, be paid a fee of $700 for employment preparation services provided to a consumer prior to placement in an integrated job.end insert
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 consistent with the Department of Rehabilitation rate begin insert thirty dollars and eighty-two cents ($30.82).end insert
6structure policy.end delete
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 deleteconsistent with begin insert thirty dollars
13the Department of Rehabilitation rate structure policy,end delete
14and eighty-two cents ($30.82),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
P3 1Rehabilitation when regional center and Department of
2Rehabilitation consumers are served in the same group.
3(d) When Section 4855 applies, fees for services provided
4through the regional center shall be consistent with the fee for that
5service established by the Department of Rehabilitation.
6(d) When Section 4855 applies, fees shall be authorized for the
7following:
8(1) A three-hundred-sixty-dollar ($360) fee shall be paid to the
9program provider upon intake of a consumer into a supported
10employment program. No fee shall be paid if that consumer
11completed a supported employment intake process with that same
12supported employment program within the previous 12 months.
13(2) A seven-hundred-dollar ($700) fee shall be paid to the
14program provider for employment preparation services provided
15to a consumer prior to placement in an integrated job. No fee shall
16be paid if that consumer completed an employment
preparation
17process with the same supported employment program within the
18previous 12 months.
19(3) A seven-hundred-twenty-dollar ($720) fee shall be paid upon
20placement of a consumer in an integrated job, except that no fee
21shall be paid if that consumer is placed with another consumer or
22consumers assigned to the same job coach during the same hours
23of employment.
24(4) A seven-hundred-twenty-dollar ($720) fee shall be paid after
25a 90-day retention of a consumer in a job, except that no fee shall
26be paid if that consumer has been placed with another consumer
27or consumers, assigned to the same job coach during the same
28hours of employment.
29(e) Notwithstanding paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section
304648, the
regional center shall pay the supported employment
31program rates established by this section, or rates established by
32the Department of Rehabilitation, whichever are greater.
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