BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
AB 2565 (Salas) - Independent Living Centers: state funding
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|Version: August 1, 2016 |Policy Vote: HUMAN S. 5 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: August 8, 2016 |Consultant: Debra Cooper |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: AB 2565 would permit all independent living centers
(ILCs), including three that were previously excluded, to
receive $235,000 in base grant funding annually.
Fiscal
Impact: Ongoing costs to the Department of Rehabilitation (DOR)
of $705,000 per year to provide three ILCs with $235,000 in base
grant funding. (Federal/GF)
Background: An ILC is a consumercontrolled, communitybased,
crossdisability, nonresidential private nonprofit agency that is
designed and operated within a local community by individuals
with disabilities and provides an array of independent living
services. There are 28 ILCs in California that serve at least
22,000 individuals per year. The centers are overseen and funded
by DOR with total statewide funding of $20 million.
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The ILCs have several different funding sources. Title VII of
the Rehabilitation Act established a framework for the creation
and funding of ILCs across the nation. Federal Title VII(c)
moneys flow directly to ILCs based on specific contracted
agreements. Each ILC receives a standard $70,000 grant for
assistive technology, and some ILCs that have taken on
additional responsibilities typically receive more Title VII(c)
funding.
Existing state law provides that each ILC is required to receive
at least $235,000 in base grant funding allocated by DOR, except
those centers that have been established and maintained using
Title VII(c) funding. Three ILCs in California (the Disability
Resources Agency for Independent Living, the Independent Living
Center of Kern County, and the Placer Independent Resources
Services, Inc) were established with larger Title VII(c) grants
instead of the state base funding which was provided to other
ILCs. All California ILCs receive Title VII(c) grants of varying
amounts ranging from $68,088 for Tri-County Independent Living,
Inc. to $531,840 for Disability Resources Agency for Independent
Living.
Though the three ILCs that are exempted from the state base
grant receive larger federal grants than many of the other ILCs,
because they are solely funded with federal funds, they receive
among the least total funding of the 28 ILCs.
Proposed Law:
This bill would:
Strike language excluding ILCs which have been established and
maintained using federal funding under Title VII(c) of the
federal Rehabilitation Act as their primary base grant from
receiving base funding of $235,000 and requiring DOR to fund
those ILCs with the difference of the funding from the federal
VII(c) allocation and $235,000.
Strike language that authorizes base funding for the ILCs
allocated from the state general fund to be replaced by
reimbursements from the federal Supplemental Security
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Disability Insurance and the Supplemental Security Income
programs and replaces it with language that requires base
funding amounts to be allocated to the ILCs from those federal
funds.
Related
Legislation: SB 826 (Leno, Chapter 23, Statutes of 2016), the
State Budget Act of 2016-17, among other things, allocates
$705,000 in base allocations from the state general fund.
Staff
Comments: Funding for the additional $705,000 in base
allocations was already addressed in the 2016-17 state budget.
While the state budget provides for this funding from the
general fund, this bill requires the allocation to come from
federal reimbursement funding.
Federal Social Security Reimbursements, which regularly
fluctuate, are already reserved for other DOR programs;
therefore, redirection of federal Social Security Reimbursements
from other programs would result in a reduction of vocational
rehabilitation services provided through DOR.
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