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          SENATE THIRD READING
          SB 873 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)
          As Amended  August 12, 2014
          Majority vote 

           SENATE VOTE  :   Vote not relevant  

          BUDGET              25-1                                        
           
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          |Ayes:|Skinner, Gorell, Bloom,   |     |                          |
          |     |Campos, Chávez, Chesbro,  |     |                          |
          |     |Daly, Dickinson, Gordon,  |     |                          |
          |     |Grove, Harkey,            |     |                          |
          |     |Jones-Sawyer, Mansoor,    |     |                          |
          |     |Melendez, Mullin,         |     |                          |
          |     |Muratsuchi, Nazarian,     |     |                          |
          |     |Nestande, Patterson,      |     |                          |
          |     |Rodriguez, Stone, Ting,   |     |                          |
          |     |Wagner, Weber, Dababneh   |     |                          |
          |     |                          |     |                          |
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          |Nays:|Allen                     |     |                          |
          |     |                          |     |                          |
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           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 SB  
            855 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 29, Statutes  
            of 2014, (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.  









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          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 California Work Opportunity and  
            Responsibility to Kids (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 CalWORKs program assistance  
            unit that excludes specified adults includes reasonably  
            anticipated 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  








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            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 the Office of the Secretary of State. 


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Nicole Vazquez / BUDGET / (916)  
          319-2099


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