BILL ANALYSIS Ó SB 873 Page 1 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |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 | | | | | | | | |-----+--------------------------+-----+--------------------------| |Nays:|Allen | | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. SB 873 Page 2 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 SB 873 Page 3 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 FN: 0004819