AB 1930, as amended, Lackey. In-home supportive services: family caregivers: advisory committee.
Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with supportive services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law provides that a person who is the parent or a spouse of a recipient of those services shall be paid for providing specified services to the recipient through the program.
This bill would, until January 1, 2019, establish the In-Home Supportive Services Family Caregiver Benefits Advisory Committee within the State Department of Social Services, as specified, for the purpose of describing the availability of, and barriers to accessing, employment-based supports and protections, as specified, and studying the impact of the lack of access to these supports and protections on individuals who provide supportive services to a spouse or as the parent of a recipient child. The bill would require the advisory committee to submit a peer-reviewed report to the Legislature, as specified, on or before January 1, 2018.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 12335 is added to the Welfare and
2Institutions Code, to read:
(a) There is hereby established, within the State
4Department of Social Services, the In-Home Supportive Services
5Family Caregiver Benefits Advisory Committee, for the purpose
6of describing the availability of, and barriers to accessing,
7employment-based supports and protections, including, but not
8limited to, federal social security benefits and state unemployment
9insurance benefits, and studying the impact of the lack of access
10to these supports and protections on the lives and communities of
11individuals who provide the supportive services described in this
12article to a spouse or as the parent of a recipient child.
13(b) The advisory committee shall be comprised of not
fewer
14than eight individuals and not more than 11 individuals pursuant
15to subdivision (c). The advisory committee shall include, but not
16be limited to, representatives from all of the following groups:
17(1) Academic entities with expertise in the subject matter of the
18report described in subdivision (d).
19(2) Nonprofit organizations related to IHSS.
20(3) The State Department of Social Services.
21(4) County governments.
22(5) IHSS public authorities.
23(6) Individuals who are current providers of personal assistance
24services
funded as IHSS pursuant to this article and who are a
25parent or spouse of the person receiving those services.
26(7) Individuals who are current or past consumers of personal
27assistance services provided through the IHSS program.
P3 1(8) Labor organizations that are designated representatives of
2providers of personal assistance services funded as IHSS pursuant
3to this article.
4(c) (1) The Governor may appoint not more than nine
5individuals to the advisory committee. Individuals appointed by
6the Governor may include only representatives from the groups
7described in subdivision (b).
8(2) The Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate Committee on
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Rules shall each appoint one individual to the advisory committee.
10Individuals appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and the
11Senate Committee on Rules may include representatives who are
12not from the groups described in subdivision (b).
13(3) The appointments made pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2)
14shall ensure that the advisory committee includes representatives
15from allbegin insert of theend insert groups described in subdivision (b).
16(d) On or before January 1, 2018, the advisory committee shall
17provide a report to the Senate Committee on Human Services, the
18Senate Select Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care, the
19Assembly Committee on Human Services, and the Assembly
20Committee on Aging
and Long-Term Care. The report shall include
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a summary of the findings of the advisory committee, as described
22in subdivision (a), and recommendations on steps the state can
23take to ensure that all IHSS providers who provide supportive
24services to a spouse or child have access to employment-based
25supports and protections, including, but not limited to, federal
26social security benefits and state unemployment insurance benefits,
27as described in subdivision (a). Prior to submission of the report,
28the advisory committee shall arrange for peer review of the study
29by the academic entities described in paragraph (1) of subdivision
30(b).
31(e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2019,
32and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that
33is enacted before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends that date.
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