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          Date of Hearing:  September 1, 2015 


                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES


                                Richard Gordon, Chair


          SCR  
          85 (Hall) - As Introduced August 17, 2015


          SENATE VOTE:  38-0


          SUBJECT:  Nursing Home Caregiver Professionals and Long Term  
          Care Provider Month.


          SUMMARY:  Recognizes the month of November 2015 as the Nursing  
          Home Caregiver Professionals and Long Term Care Provider Month.   
          Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative  
          findings:


          1)There are 136,000 skilled nursing home professionals in  
            California, of which 47,000 workers deliver quality  
            institutional care to our most vulnerable residents, including  
            seniors, adults, and children with disabilities in California.


          2)The number of seniors requiring long term care will  
            drastically increase as the number of Californians who are 65  
            years of age or older is estimated to grow to nine million  
            people in the next 15 years.

          3)Nursing home caregivers provide essential services to  
            residents that maintain the highest practicable physical,  








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            mental, and psychosocial wellbeing of the people they serve.

          4)The work of nursing home caregivers often goes unnoticed, as  
            do the financial struggles caregivers and their families  
            experience in order to provide this lifeline service to those  
            in need.
              
          5)Providing long-term care workers with a living wage will  
            generate the demand for goods and services in the local  
            economy, stimulate increased employment opportunities, and  
            drive workers and their families one step closer to getting  
            out of poverty.
          


          FISCAL EFFECT:  None


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:




          Support


          SEIU Local 2015 




          Opposition


          None on file












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          Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916)  
          319-2800