BILL NUMBER: AB 97	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Weber

                        JANUARY 8, 2015

   An act relating to in-home supportive services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 97, as introduced, Weber. In-home supportive services: provider
wages.
   Existing law establishes the county-administered In-Home
Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged,
blind, and disabled persons are provided with services in order to
permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid
institutionalization. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program,
which is administered by the State Department of Health Care
Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health
care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded
by federal Medicaid Program provisions.
   Existing law provides, as part of the Coordinated Care Initiative,
that not sooner than March 1, 2013, all Medi-Cal long-term services
and supports, including IHSS, are required to be services that are
covered under managed care health plan contracts and to be available
only through managed care health plans to beneficiaries residing in
Coordinated Care Initiative counties, except for the provided
exemptions.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to create a mechanism to pay In-Home Supportive Services
program providers for additional hours worked through the Coordinated
Care Initiative.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to create a mechanism to pay In-Home Supportive Services
program providers for additional hours worked through the Coordinated
Care Initiative.