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          SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                             Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
                            2015 - 2016  Regular  Session

          AB 601 (Eggman) - Residential care facilities for the elderly:  
          licensing and regulation.
          
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          |Version: June 29, 2015          |Policy Vote: HUMAN S. 5 - 0     |
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          |Urgency: No                     |Mandate: No                     |
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          |Hearing Date: August 27, 2015   |Consultant: Jolie Onodera       |
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          *********** ANALYSIS ADDENDUM - SUSPENSE FILE ***********
             The following information is revised to reflect amendments 
                     adopted by the committee on August 27, 2015


          Bill  
          Summary:  AB 601 would expand the scope of information that  
          prospective residential care facility for the elderly (RCFE)  
          licensees must provide to the Department of Social Services  
          (DSS). Additionally, this bill would require the DSS to  
          cross-check RCFE licensee applicant information with the  
          Department of Public Health (DPH) and post specified information  
          on the DSS website to the extent the automated system can  
          electronically accommodate additional information.


          Fiscal  
          Impact:  
           Increase in DSS workload, potentially in excess of $150,000  
            (General Fund), to cross-check information electronically  
            against DPH information and to compile and analyze the  
            additional information provided by all RCFE licensees. Ongoing  







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            workload to post and update the RCFE information on the DSS  
            website is estimated to be minor and absorbable.
           Potential future cost pressure (General Fund) to update the  
            automation system to accommodate all of the specified RCFE  
            profile information.   

           Likely minor ongoing enforcement costs (General Fund), offset  
            to a degree by penalty revenue, to the extent DSS assesses  
            civil penalties for material violations of the provisions of  
            this measure. 


          Committee  
          Amendments:  Make one technical change.


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