BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: August 14, 2014
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON BUDGET
Nancy Skinner, Chair
SB 873 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee) - As Amended:
August 12, 2014
SENATE VOTE: Vote not relevant
SUBJECT : Human Services
SUMMARY : This is the Human Services Clean-Up Trailer Bill for
the 2014-15 Budget. It contains necessary clean-up changes and
technical corrections related to the Budget Act of 2014. This
bill makes various statutory changes to implement the 2014-15
budget. Specifically, this bill :
1.Makes various technical changes regarding temporary managers
and receiverships for facilities licensed by the Community
Care Licensing (CCL) Division at the State Department of
Social Services (DSS), amending law that was codified in
Senate Bill 855 (Chapter 29, Statutes of 2014), hereafter
referred to as Chapter 29. Among related changes, provides
that if the revenues are insufficient to reimburse the
department for the costs of the temporary manager, the salary
of the receiver, or related expenses, the unreimbursed amount
shall constitute grounds for a monetary judgment in civil
court and subsequent lien upon the assets of the facility or
the proceeds from the sale thereof.
2.Refines, for purposes of the Approved Relative Caregiver
Funding Option Program that was created in Chapter 29, the
definition of the children affected to remove an erroneous
reference and deletes the requirement that the funding of the
applicable per-child CalWORKs grant be limited to the federal
funds received, which was unintentional in the original
drafting.
3.Extends a specified exception to the group home moratorium in
current law for rate classification level changes below 10 to
the 2014-15 fiscal year.
4.Provides that if the income for a California Work Opportunity
and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program assistance unit
that excludes specified adults includes reasonably anticipated
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income derived from child support, the first $50 of any amount
of child support received each month shall not be considered
income or resources and shall not be deducted from the amount
of aid to which the assistance unit otherwise would be
eligible. This clarifies language previously adopted in
Chapter 29.
5.Deems an In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) provider, if
certain conditions are met, authorized to work a recipient's
county-approved adjusted hours for the week when a recipient's
weekly authorized hours are adjusted and at the time of
adjustment the recipient currently receives all authorized
hours of services from one provider. This conforms to the
agreement between parties resulting in the IHSS overtime
management statutory changes in Chapter 29.
6.Extends authorization for all-county letters and similar
instructions to additional provisions of Chapter 29 that
relate to the CalFresh program. These were inadvertently
excluded in the prior legislation.
7.Includes Budget Bill changes to effectuate the transfer of
$1.7 million appropriated in Item 5180-153-0001 to Item
5180-151-0001, Program 25.30, which is a budget-neutral change
to consolidate the $5 million appropriation in the Budget for
the newly-created Commercially Sexually Exploited Children
(CSEC) program. The CSEC program was created in Chapter 29.
8.Provides that the continuous appropriation applicable to
CalWORKs is not made for purposes of implementing the bill.
9.Declares that this bill is to take effect immediately as a
bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
COMMENTS : This bill is a budget trailer bill within the
overall 2014-15 budget package to implement actions taken
affecting the Departments of Social Services, Child Support
Services, Health Care Services, and Office of the Secretary of
State.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
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Support
Unknown
Opposition
Unknown
Analysis Prepared by : Nicole Vazquez / BUDGET / (916)
319-2099